{"id":916,"date":"2013-03-15T15:59:38","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T22:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/?p=916"},"modified":"2013-03-15T15:59:38","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T22:59:38","slug":"how-to-use-minicom-to-access-cisco-equipment-console","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/?p=916","title":{"rendered":"How to use minicom to access Cisco equipment console"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is another one of those things that I do not do very often.  And when it comes up, I have re-invent the wheel.  No more.  I will have here.<\/p>\n<p>This was done from a CentOS 6.x machine connected via a Cisco console cable to a 35xx switch.  This configuration has worked for any Cisco equipment I have worked with as well.<\/p>\n<p>If minicom is not installed:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p># yum install minicom<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Setup minicom.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p># minicom -s<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Configure the serial port by selecting &#8220;Serial port setup&#8221; from the menu.<\/p>\n<p>Select the serial port using A:<br \/>\nA (ttyS0)<\/p>\n<p>Configure the port connection by selecting E:<br \/>\nE<br \/>\nC (9600)<br \/>\nV (Bits)<br \/>\nL (Parity)<br \/>\nW (Stopbits)<\/p>\n<p>9600 8N1<\/p>\n<p>Toggle the hardware flow control:<br \/>\nHardware Flow Control (off):<br \/>\nF<\/p>\n<p>This will save the configuration as the default configuration:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Save setup as dfl<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ensure that user accounts that need to access the console are added to the dialout group.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p># vigr<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\ndialout:x:18:jim<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Verify your terminal emulation.  Mine was set to xterm, and none of the menuing worked.  Obviously, this would need to be done in the user environment.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p># export TERM=vt100<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Another useful setting is the toggle to enable logging.  This is very useful, especially when messing a router or switch configuration.<\/p>\n<p>From the menu (CTRL-A Z), enable capture using L.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is another one of those things that I do not do very often. And when it comes up, I have re-invent the wheel. No more. I will have here. This was done from a CentOS 6.x machine connected via a Cisco console cable to a 35xx switch. This configuration has worked for any Cisco [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[319,323,48,322],"class_list":["post-916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-documentation","tag-cisco","tag-console","tag-linux","tag-minicom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":917,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions\/917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}