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Cisco Configuration Professional Quick Start Guide
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Task 2: Configure the Router for Cisco CP
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You can use the Cisco IOS CLI to enter the necessary configuration commands. To use this method,
see
Entering the Configuration Commands Manually
.
Copying the Default Configuration File to Router NVRAM
If you want to start with a factory default configuration that is designed to support Cisco CP, you can
use the procedure in this section. The factory default configuration includes all the commands necessary
to support Cisco CP and configures an Ethernet interface with the IP address 10.10.10.1.
To copy the default configuration file from router Flash memory to NVRAM, complete the following
steps.:
Step 1
Log on to the router through the Console port or through an Ethernet port.
Step 2
If you use the Console port, and no running configuration is present in the router, the Setup command
Facility starts automatically, and displays the following text:
--- System Configuration Dialog ---
Continue with configuration dialog? [yes/no]:
Enter
no
so that you can enter Cisco IOS CLI commands directly.
If the Setup Command Facility does not start automatically, a running configuration is present, and you
should go to the next step.
Step 3
When the router displays the user EXEC mode prompt, enter the
enable
command, and the enable
password, if one is configured, as shown below:
Router>
enable
password
password
Router#
Step 4
To identify the default configuration file, enter the
show
flash
command. The filename is of the form
cpconfig-
modelnumber
.cfg, where
modelnumber
represents the router series. For example the
configuration file name for the Cisco 860 and 880 series routers is cpconfig-8xx.cfg.
Router#
show
flash
-#- --length-- -----date/time------ path
1 2903 Apr 15 2008 20:34:48 +00:00 cpconfig-8xx.cfg
2 115712 Apr 15 2008 20:34:50 +00:00 home.tar
3 2279424 Apr 15 2008 20:34:54 +00:00 cpexpress.tar
Router#
Step 5
To copy the default configuration file to router NVRAM, enter the
copy
flash:
nvram:
command, as
shown in the following example:
Router#
copy
flash:cpconfig-8xx.cfg
nvram:
When the default configuration file is in NVRAM, it becomes the router startup configuration.
Step 6
To make the new startup configuration the running configuration, so that the router can support Cisco
CP, enter the
copy
startup-config
running-config
command, as shown in the following example:
Router#
copy
startup-config
running-config
