Cisco Cisco Prime IP Express Jumpstart 8.2 Installation Guide

This guide contains the following sections:

You must have answers to some questions to initially configure the Cisco Prime IP Express Jumpstart. 
The questions below beginning with Select require you to come up with a new value which is unique to 
this appliance, while the questions beginning with Determine require you to find out information that is 
not unique to this appliance.

You should have answers to the following questions when configuring the Cisco Prime IP Express 
Jumpstart:

Select the IP address for the CIMC port on the Cisco Prime IP Express Jumpstart.

Determine the netmask (subnetmask) for the CIMC port.

Determine the gateway for the CIMC port.

You should have answers to the following questions when configuring network information for ESXi:

Select the IP address for the ESXi installation on the Cisco Prime IP Express Jumpstart.

Determine the netmask for the IP address for the ESXi installation.

Determine the gateway address for the ESXi installation on the Cisco Prime IP Express Jumpstart.

Determine the VLAN (if any) for the ESXi installation on the Cisco Prime IP Express Jumpstart.

You should have answers for the following questions related to configuring the Cisco Prime IP Express 
virtual appliance:

Select a virtual machine name for the deployed virtual appliance.

Select a root password for the Linux operating system on the virtual appliance. You will be prompted 
to enter and configure the root password during your first boot.

Select an IP address for the Cisco Prime IP Express virtual appliance.

Select a DNS name (hostname) for the virtual appliance. It should be placed into DNS using the IP 
address you selected for the virtual appliance.

Select a username and password for the administrator of the Cisco Prime IP Express installation.

Determine the netmask associated with the IP address for the virtual appliance.

Determine the gateway address appropriate to the IP address and netmask.

Determine the IP addresses of up to two DNS servers for the virtual appliance to use.

Determine any proxy values necessary for the virtual appliance to access the Internet.

Ensure that you have the Cisco Prime IP Express licenses from Cisco.com before you get started. For 
details, see the License Files section of Cisco Prime IP Express 8.2 Installation Guide.