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Installation and Setup Guide for Cisco Secure ACS Appliance
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Chapter 3 Installing and Configuring the Cisco Secure ACS Appliance
Initial Configuration
Tip You may also use a serial concentrator connection, if desired.
Step 2 Power on Cisco Secure ACS Appliance and the console, and open your Telnet
communications software on the console.
Note Serial console service starts when Cisco Secure ACS Appliance boots up.
Step 3 Set your Telnet software to operate with the following settings:
• Baud = 115200
• Databits = 8
• Parity = N
• Stops = 1
• Flow control = None
Result: The
login: prompt appears.
Configuring the Cisco Secure ACS Appliance
You must configure the Cisco Secure ACS Appliance when you boot the system
for the first time, and whenever you re-image the system.
Before you begin to configure the appliance, you should have the following
information at hand:
• Network hostname of the appliance.
• DNS domain name.
• Administrator name and password.
• Whether or not you will enable DCHP (enabling DCHP is not recommended).
• IP, netmask, and gateway addresses you will assign to the Cisco Secure ACS
Appliance.
• Whether you will be using NTP synchronization and, if yes, the address of
the NTP server.