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Setting Up the System With the Cisco IMC Configuration Utility
Wait for approximately two minutes to let the appliance boot to standby power during the first bootup. You can verify
system power status by looking at the system Power Status LED on the front panel. The system is in standby power mode
when the LED is amber.
Step 2
Plug your management Ethernet cable into the dedicated management port on the rear panel.
Step 3
Allow your preconfigured DHCP server to assign an IP address to the server node.
Step 4
Use the assigned IP address to access and log in to the Cisco IMC for the server node.
The default username for the server is admin. The default password is password.
Note
Step 5
From the Cisco IMC Server Summary window, click Launch KVM Console.
A separate KVM console window opens.
Step 6
From the Cisco IMC Summary window, click Power Cycle Server.
The system reboots.
Step 7
Select the KVM console window.
Note
The KVM console window must be the active window for the following keyboard actions to work.
Step 8
When prompted, press F8 to enter the Cisco IMC Configuration Utility.
When you open the Cisco IMC Configuration Utility for the first time, you are prompted to change the default
Note
password. The default password is password. The Strong Password feature is enabled.
The following are the requirements for strong password:
• The password can have a minimum of 8 characters and a maximum of 14 characters.
• The password must not contain the user's name.
• The password must contain characters from three of the following categories:
• English uppercase letters (A through Z)
• English lowercase letters (a through z)
• Base 10 digits (0 through 9)
• Non-alphabetic characters !, @, #, $, %, ^, &, *, -, _, =, "
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Setting Up the System With the Cisco IMC Configuration Utility
Before you begin
The following procedure is performed after you connect to the system and open the Cisco IMC Configuration
Utility.
Step 1
Set the NIC mode to choose which ports to use to access Cisco IMC for server management:
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