Pearson Education, Inc., 221 River Street, Hoboken, New Jersey 07030, (Pearson) presents this site to provide information about Cisco Press products and services that can be purchased through this site. Throughout the book, unless otherwise stated, CLI access is always assumed. In either situation, a terminal emulation program such as TeraTerm, Putty, or HyperTerminal is necessary. The CLI is typically accessible through a serial console port or by means of terminal access protocols such as Telnet and SSH. The good news, in this case, is that intelligible and intuitive CLIs have always been a recognized asset of Cisco devices. Device Access Using the CLIĮven when planning to manage a Cisco Firewall using a Graphical User Interface (GUI), you probably need to take some initial configuration steps via the CLI. If you are just beginning, this chapter's topics are relevant and helpful. The contents presented are simple, so if you are already familiar with Cisco Classic Firewalls, you can skip this chapter altogether.
This chapter focuses on topics such as IP address assignment, Command Line Interface (CLI) usage and how to prepare the devices to be remotely managed using protocols such as Telnet, Secure Shell (SSH) and HTTPS.