Juniper SRX4600

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• DCD State—Disregard
Perform the Inial Conguraon
To connect and congure the Firewall from the console:
1. Connect the console port (CON), located on the front panel of the SRX4600 to a laptop or PC by using the
provided RJ-45 cable and RJ-45 to DB-9 serial port adapter (not provided).
2. Log in as root. There is no password. If the soware booted before you connected to the console port, you might
need to press the Enter key for the prompt to appear.
login: root
3. Start the CLI.
root# cli
root@>
4. Enter conguraon mode.
root@> configure
5. Set the root authencaon password by entering either a cleartext password, an encrypted password, or an SSH
public key string (DSA or RSA):
[edit]
root@# set system root-authentication plain-text-password
New password: password
Retype new password: password
6. Congure an administrator account on the device. When prompted, enter the password for the administrator
account:
[edit]
root@# set system login user admin class super-user authentication plain-text-password
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