Establishing a first-time serial connection

About this task

Perform the following steps to log in to the device through the serial connection.

Procedure

Connect the serial cable to the serial port on the device and to an RS-232 serial port on the workstation.
If the serial port on the workstation is RJ-45 instead of RS-232, remove the adapter on the end of the serial cable and insert the exposed RJ-45 connector into the RJ-45 serial port on the workstation.
Disable any serial communication programs running on the workstation such as synchronization programs.

Open a terminal emulator application such as PuTTY, XShell, or SecureCRT on a Windows PC, or TERM, TIP, or C-Kermit in a LINUX environment, and configure the application as follows:

In a Windows environment, use the following values:

Parameter	Value
Bits per second	9600
Databits	8
Parity	None
Stop bits	1
Flow control	None (must be disabled on the host side)

Note: Flow control is not supported on the serial connection when attached to a remote terminal and must be disabled on the customer-side remote terminal server in addition to the host-side clients.

In a UNIX environment using TIP, enter the following string at the prompt:
```
tip /dev/ttyb -9600.
```
If ttyb is already in use, use ttya instead and enter the following string at the prompt:
```
tip /dev/ttya -9600
```

When the terminal emulator application stops reporting information, press Enter to display the login prompt.
```
Switch Console Login:
```
Log in to the device as admin, using the default password: password. You are prompted to change the default admin and user passwords at initial login. Make sure to write down the new passwords and keep this information in a secure location.
```
Fabric OS (swDir)
swDir login: admin
Password:
Please change your passwords now.
Use Control-C to exit or press 'Enter' key to proceed.
swDir:admin>
```
(Optional) Modify passwords. To skip modifying the password, press Ctrl+C.

Note: Passwords can be 8 to 40 characters long. They must begin with an alphabetic character. They can include numeric characters, the period (.), and the underscore (_) only. Passwords are case-sensitive, and they are not displayed when you enter them on the command line.