Cisco Catalyst 9300/9300L/9400/9500/9600 Series Switches CC Configuration Guide
Publish Time: 10 Dec, 2024

Cisco 9300 Initial Configuration

Cisco Catalyst 9300/9300L/9400/9500/9600 Series Switches CC Configuration Guide

1. The administrator will be prompted to enter the initial configuration dialog. Enter no and confirm you would like to terminateautoinstall. The CC Configuration will use manual steps to provide the initial configuration.

Would you like to enter the initial configuration dialog? [yes/no]: noWould you like to terminate autoinstall? [yes]:yesPress RETURN to get started!


2. Enter privilege EXEC mode

SWITCH> enable


3. Enter configure terminal

SWITCH# configure terminal


4. Configure a hostname

SWITCH(config)# hostname mySWITCH


5. Configure the Enable Secret Password using Type 9

SWITCH(config)# enable algorithm-type scrypt secret <the unencrypted (cleartext)'enable' secret>

Note: Compose a password with a length between 8 and 16 using any combination of upper and lower case letters,numbers, and the following special characters: “!”, “@”, “#”, “$”, “%”, “^”, “&”, “*”, “(“, “)


6. Provide an initial configuration for an Out-of-Band Management Interface. For example:

SWITCH(config)# interface GigabitEthernet0/0SWITCH(config-if)# vrf forwarding Mgmt-vrfSWITCH(config-if)# ip address <IP address> <mask>SWITCH(config-if)# no shutdownSWITCH(config-if)# exit


7. Configure a default route to reach the Switch.

SWITCH(config)# ip route <prefix> <mask> <ip-address>


8. Configure the console to require username and password authentication

SWITCH(config)# line console 0SWITCH(config-line)# login authentication default


9. Save the initial configuration to nvram by executing “wr mem” or “copy system:running-config nvram:startup-config”command.

Note: Instructions for adding additional administrative users are specified in 4.2.14 below.


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