Click 'Open' to connect to Cisco Router or Switch IOS.ģ) PuTTY is connected to Cisco IOS and now you can configure, monitor or manage a Cisco Router or Switch using putty. Verify whether you can see the port number and the baud rate (9600) you had selected before. Enter other values also as shown below.Ģ) Click Session and click 'Serial' radio button. Cisco NAC Appliance supports the following SNMP versions: You first need to configure the switch to send and receive SNMP traffic to/from the Clean Access Manager, then configure matching settings on the Clean Access Manager to send and receive traffic to/from the switch. Enter the correct port number when you connect from your computer. The port number may be different in your computer. The port number is COM4 in below example. Enter the port number inside 'Serial line to connect to' text box. Refer the following link if a Serial Port is not available in your computer.ġ) After downloading PuTTY, connect the console cable with Cisco Router or Swtich, double click putty.exe to execute it. Although the main purpose of the switch is to provide inter-connectivity in Layer 2 for the connected devices of the network, there are myriad features and functionalities that can be configured on Cisco Switches. Refer the following link to know more about console port and console cable. Cisco switches can be used as plug-and-play devices out of the box but they also offer an enormous amount of features. Connect the other end to the Serial port of your computer. Connect the RJ45 jack of your console cable to the console port of your Cisco Router or Switch. Make sure that you have correct console connection to Cisco Router or Switch.

Click the following link to download PuTTY. A good alternative terminal emulator software to HyperTerminal is PuTTY. Site24x7 is a cloud-based service, so you don’t need to maintain software on your own site to use it. Site24x7 is also able to monitor Cisco firewalls and other appliances connected to the network. Managing switches : Ciscos Catalyst 3560, 2950 with Cacti - Managing Firewall. All Cisco switches and routers include an SNMP agent and Site24x7 acts as an SNMP manager, collecting status reports from those Cisco devices. HyperTerminal is no longer included with Windows client Operating Systems from Windows Vista onwards. The CONSOLE port IOS Recovery for Cisco 2960 switch using ROMMON.

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