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Chapter 17 Upgrading, Downgrading, and Installing System Images
Installing System Images
Catalyst Software
To configure the IDSM-2 maintenance partition, follow these steps:
Step 1
Log in to the switch CLI.
Step 2
Enter privileged mode:
cat6k#
enable
cat6k(enable)#
Step 3
Session to IDSM-2:
cat6k#
session 9
Trying IDS-9...
Connected to IDS-9.
Escape character is '^]'.
Cisco Maintenance image
Note
You cannot Telnet or SSH to the IDSM-2 maintenance partition.You must session to it from the
switch CLI.
Step 4
Log in as user
guest
and password
cisco
.
Note
You can change the guest password, but we do not recommend it. If you forget the maintenance
partition guest password, and you cannot log in to the IDSM-2 application partition for some
reason, you will have to RMA IDSM-2.
login:
guest
Password:
cisco
Maintenance image version: 2.1(2)
Step 5
View the IDSM-2 maintenance partition host configuration:
show ip
IP address : 10.89.149.74
Subnet Mask : 255.255.255.128
IP Broadcast : 10.255.255.255
DNS Name : idsm2.localdomain
Default Gateway : 10.89.149.126
Nameserver(s) :
Step 6
Clear the IDSM-2 maintenance partition host configuration (ip address, gateway, hostname):
clear ip
show ip
IP address : 0.0.0.0
Subnet Mask : 0.0.0.0
IP Broadcast : 0.0.0.0
DNS Name : localhost.localdomain