Switch> enable
Press Enter. You will see the following output:
Switch>enable
Switch#
Note: At this point, in a production environment, a user is almost certainly prompted for an enable password when entering privileged executive mode. As the switch is yet to be configured, you will not be prompted for such a password. You will configure a password later to see this in action.
Step 3
In this step, you will configure the hostname of the switch. As the rest of the modules in this course refer to this switch as NYACCESS1, you will change the hostname to be NYACCESS1.
To do this, enter global configuration mode and use the hostname command to change the hostname. Throughout all of the tasks, the configuration will be shown in full, as shown in the output below.
Type the following commands (press Enter after each command):
Switch# configure terminal
Switch(config)# hostname NYACCESS1
You will see the following output:
Switch#configure terminal
Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.
Switch(config)#hostname NYACCESS1
NYACCESS1(config)#
Notice that as soon as you entered the hostname command that the hostname changed. This is an important point because almost all changes that you make are committed as soon as you press Enter. You do not commit the changes separately; they are committed immediately.
Step 4
Now you will configure an enable password. To do this, use the enable password command in global configuration mode as follows:
Alert: When configuring passwords, make sure to configure them exactly as they are specified in the lab. If the password is not specified explicitly, you must use lower case ciscoas a password. This enables us to successfully recover the devices once you have finished.
NYACCESS1(config)# enable password cisco1
Press Enter. You will see the following output:
NYACCESS1(config)#enable password cisco1
NYACCESS1(config)#
Step 5
Test this configuration change by exiting privileged executive mode and connecting again.