topic ACS 5.1 installations in Wireless

ACS 5.1 installations

Totardo Tobing — Sun, 04 Jul 2021 05:33:27 GMT

Hi Guys,

I just installed ACS 5.1 using its ISO file in my VM Ware Player.

The installations looks good from beginning... and up till now I think the installation process is finish.

But I still not able to use https://<vmware player ip address>

What is the problem?

I ping my VMware player success.

Re: ACS 5.1 installations

Amjad Abdullah — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 18:26:23 GMT

What is the network settings that you use for the Network adapter on the VM machine?
use bridge mode. That should work.

I suppose you try to https to the ACS from the host machine. If from different machine please explain the topology.

HTH

Amjad

Re: ACS 5.1 installations

Scott Fella — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 20:26:20 GMT

You need to still configure ACS. From vm player, you should see the console in which you can issue a show run. If you don't see a console, then the install didn't work.

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Re: ACS 5.1 installations

Amjad Abdullah — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 20:30:32 GMT

Yes Scott. But I think when Totardo said he can ping the VM then that means the connectivity is OK and the IP address is assigned correctly to the VM.

Re: ACS 5.1 installations

Scott Fella — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 20:34:30 GMT

Well he mentioned he can ping his vm player, which to me is the pc that is running vm player:) who knows:)

He should ping from the ACS CLI to the default gateway or he can issue a show

application ACS status (I think that is the command) to see if the service is up.

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Re: ACS 5.1 installations

Amjad Abdullah — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 20:37:41 GMT

I understand your point. That's why I asked him about the network settings and the topology.

Totardo could possibly be using the host machine IP address, not hte VM IP address. 🙂

Re: ACS 5.1 installations

Peter Nugent — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 22:05:24 GMT

When you boot the install disc and the install completes ACS will present the following.

The IP address you would use would not be the VMplayer but the machine IP address you entered? Not used VMplayer just ESXi so I am assuming its similar.

Type 'setup' to configure your appliance

localhost:

Did you enter the setup script and put in IP address etc..

The details you enter are as follows, after you complete the script it reboots again

localhost login: setup

Enter hostname[]: acs-server-1

Enter IP address[]: 209.165.200.225

Enter IP default netmask[]: 255.255.255.0

Enter IP default gateway[]: 209.165.200.1

Enter default DNS domain[]: mycompany.com

Enter Primary nameserver[]: 209.165.200.254

Add/Edit another nameserver? Y/N : n

Enter username [admin]: admin

Enter password:

Enter password again:

Pinging the gateway...

Pinging the primary nameserver...

Do not use `Ctrl-C' from this point on...

Appliance is configured

Installing applications...

Installing acs...

Generating configuration...

Rebooting...

After the reboot you should be able to login and verify the install. As Scott said

show application status ACS will verify all the processes are running.

Also use

show application

show application version.

ACS 5.1 installations

Totardo Tobing — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 09:04:33 GMT

Hello Pete, Steve

The software stop and say:

localhost login:

By following your tips, I enter 'setup'

localhost login: setup

But he reply with:

Password:

This is not like how you describe it. You say to me enter the command 'setup' at localhost login after that I should brought to this feedback:

Enter hostname[]: acs-server-1

But instead of that, I brought to entering password. What was the problem guys?

ACS 5.1 installations

Totardo Tobing — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 09:07:34 GMT

Hello Amjad,

I'm running the VMware player and Windows 7 on the same laptop from which I run https://.

I can ping the VMware machine from Windows 7. But the GUI won't showed up when https to the VM.

What could be the problem?

Thank you

Re: ACS 5.1 installations

Amjad Abdullah — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 11:10:46 GMT

Can you login into the console? Have you provided address to the ACS from the initial wizard?

If you used "setup" before then it wont work again.

When setup is allowed the prompt will tell that:

Type 'setup' to configure your appliance

localhost:

Now, the questions are: what is the ip of the ACS?

What is the network config for the VM? What is the ip address that VMWare adapter on the laptop has?

What is the default gateway for acs?

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Re: ACS 5.1 installations

Totardo Tobing — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 11:47:29 GMT

I kind a confuse Amjad. Would you please give a sight to screen cap below?

Re: ACS 5.1 installations

Scott Fella — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 11:53:24 GMT

You installed the OS, but ACS did not install. Make sure you follow the minimum requirements especially the hard drive space.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/net_mgmt/cisco_secure_access_control_system/5.1/installation/guide/csacs_vmware.pdf

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Re: ACS 5.1 installations

Totardo Tobing — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:04:04 GMT

500 Gb?????

Is this requirement also happen to VM player??

Re: ACS 5.1 installations

Scott Fella — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:01:12 GMT

I have always had to specify the minimum to get ACS to install on my VM's.

Per the doc

Note ACS 5.0 installation may fail with less than 500GB hard-disk space.

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Re: ACS 5.1 installations

Amjad Abdullah — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:26:53 GMT

You are ok. VM can be done with 64 GB. If you have it installed then there is no limitation problem. If there is any limitation it would have told you that at time of installation and you could not install it.

Now i think you went through the setup wizard at least once, right? This is what it looks like.

If yes, then you configured a username and a password for the console, use them o login and get (show running config) and (show application status axs) output.

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Re: ACS 5.1 installations

Tarik Admani — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 03:22:38 GMT

You can try to boot from the iso and perform the password recovery. After performing the password recovery it should show you which admin account (default is admin) and use the keyboard monitor option to change the password and then issue the commands that Amjad mentioned above.

show application status acs should show you the status of the acs....also show application will show you if it is installed or not.

Thanks,

Tarik Admani
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Re: ACS 5.1 installations

Totardo Tobing — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 06:56:57 GMT

Thanks for your help Amjad...

Yes, I went through the wizard once.

And then the wizard stop then tell me to enter my localhost login (picture 1): < I should filled this with what? My acs username or my localhost login? But I don't entered any ACS username yet>

I entered it with my own username along with my password that was asked by the machine when I started to instal the image on VM. After I entered my localhost login and password I came into another prompt "$". After this prompt apear, I enter 'setup' command. Then I came into 'Choose a Tool' window (picture 2)

So how can I get into this below:

localhost login: setup

Enter hostname[]: acs-server-1

Re: ACS 5.1 installations

Totardo Tobing — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 07:03:49 GMT

Did you mean I am not using admin password of the ACS configuration? So I need to do a password recovery sir?

I have created a username and password just when I push a create a new VM button on my VMware player software. Is this username-password not capable to start that ACS configuration sir?

Re: ACS 5.1 installations

Scott Fella — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 12:27:16 GMT

You have a temp license? If so, 60gb minimum is needed when you configure vm. Did you set this in vm or did you just let vm set the defaults? You need to configure this before starting up your vm.

From what I remember, the screen shots you posted, ACS did not install properly and the OS was the only thing installed.

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Re: ACS 5.1 installations

Amjad Abdullah — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 22:09:29 GMT

Totardo: i think i got your problem.

What OS u chose when you created the VM? You recreate a VM and choose ( I will install the operating system later).

Do not choose other options because other options will detect the OS automatically and capture some information from you for unattended installation. This does not work with the ACS installation.

Try again, set the VM parameters manually and you'll get the wizard successfully this time.

HTH

Amjad

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