PS
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S200, PS
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S400, PS
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S500
3
PacketShaper
Quick Start Guide
3 — Power On the Appliance and
Verify LEDs
To verify the appliance is operational:
1. Confirm the appliance’s power cords are securely
connected to a power source.
2. If the appliance does not automatically power on, press
the rear soft power switch.
NOTE:
The state of the appliance’s soft power switch (on
or off) is retained when power is removed. This may ne
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cessitate pressing the power switch when reapplying
power to the appliance.
3. As the appliance boots, verify the following:
The power LED turns amber.
Near the end of the boot cycle, the Power LED alter
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nates between amber and green, indicating an uncon
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figured state.
After the boot cycle has completed, the LCD panel dis
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plays information about the appliance, such as model,
serial number, and IP address, which can be scrolled
through with the Right and Left Arrows.
Following the initial configuration and licensing, the
Power LED turns green.
During operation, the front-panel status LEDs indicate the
following states:
4 — Perform the Initial Configuration
NOTE:
To initialize the appliance, you need the following:
appliance IP address, primary DNS server IP address;
default gateway IP address; subnet mask; link settings for
speed and duplex.
To perform the initial configuration for the appliance:
1. Confirm the appliance’s
DB9 Serial
port is connected to
a serial terminal or workstation with terminal emulation
software.
2. Open a terminal emulation program, such as Microsoft
HyperTerminal®, PuTTY, Tera Term, or ProComm™,
and configure it to use the following settings:
3. Power on the appliance (if it is not already powered on)
and, when prompted, enter the default
Username
[touch] and
Password
[touch], then click
Login
.
4. When prompted, enter network configuration parame
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ters and then save them to the appliance.
NOTE:
After the appliance’s IP address has been config
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ured, you can log in to CLI via remote login with SSH, or
you can use a browser by appending /cli.htm to the appli
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ance’s IP address. For more information, see the
Pack
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etGuide
, available at:
5 — License the Appliance
After it has been initialized, the PacketShaper appliance
must be licensed for full software functionality. If the appli
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ance is connected to the Internet, the license automatically
syncs to the appliance within 24 hours. You can also retrieve
the license immediately with the
license update
command
in CLI (if the appliance is connected to the Internet).
If the appliance is not connected to the Internet, you can
manually download the license from the Broadcom My
Entitlements page and then upload it to the appliance, after
which the
license load
command can be used in CLI.
To install the license (with Internet connectivity):
1. Open a terminal emulation program and log in to the
appliance.
LED
Color
Description
Power
Status
Off
Powered off or no power present
Amber
Booting
Amber/green
alternating
Not yet initialized
Green
Powered on and configured
System
Status
Off
Powered off or no power present
Green
Normal
Amber
System fault or not yet licensed
Amber blinking
Critical fault
Baud rate:
9600 bps
Data bits:
8
Parity:
none
Stop bits:
1
Flow control:
none