Cisco 1600 - Setting Up Lights-Out Management (LOM)

Procedure
Step 1 Locate the serial port on the management center rear panel, item 4 in the diagram
below.
Step 2 Use the RJ-45 to DB-9 console cable supplied with the appliance (Cisco part number 72-3383-XX) to connect
a local computer to the management center serial port.
Step 3 Use terminal emulation software (such as HyperTerminal or XModem) on the local computer to interact with
the management center. Set the terminal emulator for 9600 baud, 8 data bits, no parity, 1 stop bit, no flow
control.
Set Up Lights-Out Management
The Lights-Out Management (LOM) feature allows you to perform a limited set of actions on the management
center using a Serial over LAN (SOL) connection. With LOM, you use a CLI on an out-of-band management
connection to perform tasks such as viewing the chassis serial number, or monitoring conditions such as fan
speed and temperature. Note that you can use Lights-Out Management on the CIMC interface only.
If you need to restore the management center to factory defaults and do not have physical access to the
appliance, you can use Lights-Out Management (LOM) to perform the restore process.
The restore process resets the LOM settings on the device; you cannot access a newly restored appliance using
LOM. When restoring a device to factory settings using LOM, if you do not have physical access to the
appliance and you delete the license and network settings, you will be unable to access the appliance after the
restore.
Caution
Other firewall appliances also support LOM. You configure LOM and LOM users for each appliance using
each appliance’s local web interface. That is, you cannot use the management center to configure LOM on a
firewall device. Similarly, because users are managed independently for each appliance, enabling or creating
an LOM-enabled user on the management center does not transfer that capability to users on firewall devices.
Note
For more information on Lights-Out Management, see "Remote Console Access Mangement" in the Cisco
Secure Firewall Management Center Administration Guide for your version.
Before you begin
• Install an Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IMPI) utility on your local computer. See IPMI
Utility Installation, on page 42 for more information.
• Determine which commands are needed to access an appliance using the IPMI tool. See LOM Commands,
on page 42 for more information.
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