024- Cisco Secure ACS 5.1..............Part I

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[1]Initial configuation of Cisco Secure ACS-1121 Appliance


Power on the appliance.

The setup prompt appears as foloows:

Please type `setup' to configure the appliance

localhost login:

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Provide the basic parameter :

localhost login: setup

Enter hostname[]: ACS01

Enter IP address[]: 10.10.10.10

Enter IP default netmask[]: 255.255.255.0

Enter IP default gateway[]: 10.10.10.1

Enter default DNS domain[]: xyz.com

Enter Primary nameserver[]: 10.10.10.50

Add/Edit another nameserver? Y/N : n

Enter username [admin]: admin

Enter password: ******

Enter password again: ******


Pinging the gateway...
Pinging the primary nameserver...
Do not use `Ctrl-C' from this point on...
Appliance is configured
Installing applications...
Installing acs...
Generating configuration...
Rebooting...



Note: The password set above is only used for CLI mode.
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[2] Verifying the Installation Process
Login in into ACS and issue following commmand
show application, and press Enter.

The console Output:
[name]  [Description]


acs ACS 5.1
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[3] To check the release and ACS version installed enter following command
show application version acs, and press Enter.

The console Output:
Cisco ACS VERSION INFORMATION
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Version : 5.1.0


Release : B.1083
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[4] Setting SNMP string on ACS 5.1
snmp-server community PUBLIC ro
snmp-server host 10.10.10.100 version 2c PUBLIC
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[5] Configuring DNS servere entries in ACS

ip name-server  10.10.10.50  20.20.20.50

clock timezone India/Delhi

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[6] To check the status of ACS processes enter the following command
show application status acs, and press Enter.


The console output:

ACS role: PRIMARY
Process 'database' running
Process 'management' running
Process 'runtime' running
Process 'view-database' running
Process 'view-jobmanager' running
Process 'view-alertmanager' running
Process 'view-collector' running
Process 'view-logprocessor' running
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[07] GUI Access to ACS 5.1
In URL https://10.10.10.10/acsadmin

Note: Default username: acsadmin and password: default. The system will ask to change the default password

You will had to add the license file. If you got the ACS 5.x image from Cisco website they will provide you with a trial license file or a standard / extended license.

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