Launching the Configuration Utility

To open the web-based configuration utility:

1. Open a Web browser.
2. Enter the IP address of the device you are configuring in the address bar on the browser, and then press Enter.

NOTE     When the device is using the factory default IP address of 192.168.1.254, its power LED flashes continuously. When the device is using a DHCP assigned IP address or an administrator-configured static IP address, the power LED is on solid.

Logging In

The default username is cisco and the default password is cisco. The first time that you log in with the default username and password, you are required to enter a new password.

NOTE     If you have not previously selected a language for the GUI, the language of the Login page is determined by the language(s) requested by your browser and the languages configured on your device. If your browser requests Chinese, for example, and Chinese has been loaded into your device, the Login page is automatically displayed in Chinese. If Chinese has not been loaded into your device, the Login page appears in English.

The languages loaded into the device have a language and country code (en-US, en-GB and so on). For the Login page to be automatically displayed in a particular language, based on the browser request, both the language and country code of the browser request must match those of the language loaded on the device. If the browser request contains only the language code without a country code (for example: fr). The first embedded language with a matching language code is taken (without matching the country code, for example: fr_CA).

To log in to the device configuration utility:

1. Enter the username/password. The password can contain up to 64 ASCII characters. Password-complexity rules are described in the Setting Password Complexity Rules section of the Configuring Security chapter.
2. If you are not using English, select the desired language from the Language drop- down menu. To add a new language to the device or update a current one, refer to the Upgrade/Backup Firmware/Language section.
3. If this is the first time that you logged on with the default user ID (cisco) and the default password (cisco) or your password has expired, the Change Password Page appears. See Password Expiration for additional information.
4. Choose whether to select Disable Password Complexity Enforcement or not. For more information on password complexity, see the Setting Password Complexity Rules section.
5. Enter the new password and click Apply.

When the login attempt is successful, the Getting Started page appears.

If you entered an incorrect username or password, an error message appears and the Login page remains displayed on the window. If you are having problems logging in, please see the Launching the Configuration Utility section in the Administration Guide for additional information.

Select Don't show this page on startup to prevent the Getting Started page from being displayed each time that you log on to the system. If you select this option, the System Summary page is opened instead of the Getting Started page.