Cisco Cisco Secure Access Control System 5.1

The first time you power up the appliance, you must run the setup program to configure the appliance. 
For more information, see 

This section describes the setup process that configures the ACS Server.

The setup program launches an interactive CLI that prompts you for the required parameters. An 
administrator can use the console or a dumb terminal to configure the initial network settings and provide 
the initial administrator credentials for the ACS 5.1 server using the setup program. The setup process 
is a one-time configuration task.

To configure the ACS Server:

Power up the appliance.

The setup prompt appears:

Please type ‘setup’ to configure the appliance 

localhost login:

At the login prompt, enter 

and press Enter. 

The console displays a set of parameters. You must enter the parameters as described in 

You can interrupt the setup process at any time by typing Ctrl-C before the last setup value is 
entered.

Hostname

<localhost>

First letter must be an ASCII character.

Length must be >2 but <20 characters.

Valid characters are alphanumeric (A-Z, 
a-z, 0-9), hyphen (-), and the first 
character must be a letter.

Enter the hostname.

IPv4 IP Address

None, network specific

Must be a valid IPv4 address between 
0.0.0.0 and 255.255.255.255.

Enter the IP address.

IPv4 Netmask

None, network specific

Must be a valid IPv4 address between 
0.0.0.0 and 255.255.255.255.

Enter a valid netmask.

IPv4 Gateway

None, network specific

Must be a valid IPv4 address between 
0.0.0.0 and 255.255.255.255.

Enter a valid default gateway.

Domain Name

None, network specific

Cannot be an IP address.

Valid characters are ASCII, any digit, 
hyphen (-), and period (.)

Enter the domain name.

IPv4 Primary Name 
Server Address

None, network specific

Must be a valid IPv4 address between 
0.0.0.0 and 255.255.255.255. 

Enter a valid name 
server address.