Cisco Cisco Email Security Appliance C190 User Guide

To successfully set up the Cisco appliance in your environment, you must gather important network 
information from your network administrator about how you would like to connect the Cisco appliance 
to your network.

During the initial setup, you can connect to the appliance in one of two ways:

Review the latest product release notes 
for your appliance.

Release notes are available from the link in 

Unpack the appliance, physically install 
it in a rack, and turn it on. 

See Quickstart Guide for your appliance. This guide is 
available from the link in 

. 

Access the appliance using the web 
interface or the command line interface 
(CLI) 

Launch a web browser and enter the IP address of the 
appliance. 
or 

If you are setting up a virtual Email 
Security appliance, load your virtual 
appliance license. 

Use the 

loadlicense

 command. For more information, see 

the Cisco Virtual Security Appliance Installation Guide 
available from the link in 

. 

Configure basic settings for your 
system. 

See 

An Ethernet connection between a PC and the network and between the network 
and the Cisco Management port. The IPv4 address that has been assigned to the 
Management port by the factory is 

192.168.42.42

. This is the easiest way to 

connect if it works with your network configuration.

A serial communications connection between the PC and the Cisco Serial Console 
port. If you cannot use the Ethernet method, a straight serial-to-serial connection 
between the computer and the appliance will work until alternate network settings 
can be applied to the Management port. For pinout information, see 

. The communications 

settings for the serial port are:

Bits per second: 9600

Data bits: 8

Parity: None

Stop bits: 1

Flow control: Hardware