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    Corporate Headquarters: Copyright © 20 03 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Cisco Systems, Inc., 170 West Tasman Drive, San Jose, CA 95134-1706 USA Cisco Security Device Manager (SDM) Quick Start Guide This document accompanies the Quick Start Guide for your Cisco router . It describes Security Device Manager (SDM) and shows you ho w to use[...]

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    2 Cisco Security Device Manager (SDM) Quick Start Guide 78-16254-01 Use SDM to Configure the Router Use SDM to Configure the Router This section explains ho w to use the SDM Startup wizard to deploy your router with a working LAN and W AN conf iguration. Once the router is deployed you can use SDM to further conf igure LAN and W AN interfaces, dyna[...]

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    3 Cisco Security Device Manager (SDM) Quick Start Guide 78-16254-01 Use SDM to Configure the Router Task 3: Start SDM, and Complete the Startup Wizard T o start SDM and begin the router conf iguration, follow these steps: Step 1 Open a web browser on the PC, and enter the follo wing URL: https://10.10.10.1 Note The https://... specif ies that the S[...]

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    4 Cisco Security Device Manager (SDM) Quick Start Guide 78-16254-01 Use SDM to Configure the Router Figur e 2 Router Home P age If the router home page does not appear when you enter the URL https://10.10.10.1 (or http://10.10.10.1 ), test the connection between the PC and the router by doing the following: • Check that the Po wer LED on the rout[...]

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    5 Cisco Security Device Manager (SDM) Quick Start Guide 78-16254-01 Use SDM to Configure the Router Figur e 3 SDM Launch P age Step 6 A window appears that pro vides information about the browser and its settings. That windo w also informs you that SDM will open in another window . Y ou can close this window and wait for the SDM Startup W izard pag[...]

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    6 Cisco Security Device Manager (SDM) Quick Start Guide 78-16254-01 Use SDM to Configure the Router Step 1 Assign a ne w IP address to the PC’ s Ethernet interface; place it on the same subnet as the router’ s Ethernet port, which you assigned in Step 7 of T ask 3. See Figure 4 for an example conf iguration. If you conf igured a DHCP server on [...]

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    7 Cisco Security Device Manager (SDM) Quick Start Guide 78-16254-01 Using SDM Figur e 5 SDM Overview Windo w Using SDM Cisco SDM provides a series of easy-to-use wizards that quickly tak e you step-by-step through conf iguring your router , without requiring knowledge of the Cisco IOS software CLI. Y ou can use SDM wizards to: • Conf igure W AN c[...]

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    8 Cisco Security Device Manager (SDM) Quick Start Guide 78-16254-01 You’re Done! Where to Go from Here – Click Address P ool to def ine a pool of dynamic NA T IP addresses. – Click Add... to create N A T rules. • T o customize the router’ s f irew all policy or create an A CL, click Firewall Policy . • T o allow the router to be securel[...]

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    9 Cisco Security Device Manager (SDM) Quick Start Guide 78-16254-01 I Want to Use the Cisco IOS Startup Sequence Step 3 Use a terminal emulation program on your PC, with the terminal emulation settings of 9600 baud, 8 data bits, no parity , 1 stop bit, and no f low control, to connect to your router . Step 4 At the prompt, enter the enable command.[...]

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    10 Cisco Security Device Manager (SDM) Quick Start Guide 78-16254-01 Cisco.com logging buffered 51200 warning Go to http://www .cisco.com/go/sdm to obtain SDM documents such as release notes and installation instructions that can be used to obtain the latest version of SDM. If you are conf iguring a Cisco 830 router , you should obtain the followin[...]