Troubleshooting guide

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Cisco Wide Area Application Services Configuration Guide
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Chapter 1 Configuring Other System Settings
Managing WAAS Express Devices
Enabling IPMI SoL
To enable IPMI SoL, perform the following steps:
Step 1 On the WAAS device, configure and enable IPMI over Lan (IoL).
Step 2 On the remote client make sure that the BMC user can do IoL operations successfully over IPMI session
v2.0.
Step 3 On the remote client, change the baud-rate of the terminal to match the WAAS console baud rate of 9600
bps.
Step 4 On the WAAS device, enable IPMI SoL.
Step 5 On the remote client, if the IPMI management tool is ipmitool, check the SoL payload status of the
specific BMC user with the following command:
ipmitool -I lanplus -H bmc-ip-address -U bmc-user-name sol payload status 1 bmc-user-userid
For example:
# ipmitool -I lanplus -H 2.1.4.70 -U user3 sol payload status 1 3
Password:
User 3 on channel 1 is disabled
Step 6 If the SoL payload is disabled for this user, enable the SoL payload for this user with the following
command:
ipmitool -I lanplus -H bmc-ip-address -U bmc-user-name sol payload enable 1 bmc-user-userid
For example:
# ipmitool -I lanplus -H 2.1.4.70 -U user3 sol payload enable 1 3
Password:
# ipmitool -I lanplus -H 2.1.4.70 -U user3 sol payload status 1 3
Password:
User 3 on channel 1 is enabled
Step 7 On the remote client, use the following command to open the serial console to the WAAS device:
ipmitool -I lanplus -H bmc-ip-address -U bmc-user-name sol activate
Step 8 On the remote client, you have now entered the console session of the WAAS device. When you are done,
use the ~. escape character to terminate the connection.
Managing WAAS Express Devices
You can use the WAAS Central Manager to manage WAAS Express devices, which are Cisco ISR G2
routers deployed with the WAAS Express software. The WAAS Express software implements a subset
of the WAAS appliance functionality, providing basic optimization and HTTP accelerator express, CIFS
accelerator express, and SSL accelerator express. The Central Manager menu displays a subset of the
full menu when a WAAS Express device is selected as the context.
The Central Manager and a WAAS Express device communicate using the HTTPS protocol. To establish
communication between a WAAS Central Manager and a WAAS Express device, you must register the
WAAS Express device with the Central Manager. Using the Central Manager GUI to register a WAAS
Express device is a more simplified method than using the CLI.
• Registering a WAAS Express Device Using the GUI, page 1-28
• Registering a WAAS Express Device Using the CLI, page 1-29