Fresh APIC-EM Install - Unable to Login

[mikedeyoung]

Hello,

New to APIC-EM. Today I downloaded ISO and installed in VMWare Workstation on laptop for evaluation.

During installation I opted to not create additional accounts and only use "root".

After first installation, I attempted to login at console using "root" and failed to authenticate. Thinking perhaps I fat-fingered the password during installation I deleted the VM, created a new one, and re-installed specifying a very simple password just in case (I specified "cisco" as the root password).

After the second installation, I still cannot authenticate at console CLI.

Any suggestions? Thx for any help.

-Mike

[aradford]

Hi Mike,

there should always be a "grapevine" user to connect to CLI.

The other account that is created is for http access, via UI.

Can you try to login with user "grapevine" and the password you provided

[mikedeyoung]

Thanks for the feedback.

grapevine / cisco fails to authenticate

Do I need to re-install and specify "grapevine" when asked to create

additional users or is this a "built-in" user-account?

[aradford]

It is a built in user, and cannot be changed.  You will have been asked for a password for the grapevine user when you did the install.

Linux Username : identifies the Linux (Grapevine) username used for CLI access to the Grapevine root and clients.

The default is 'grapevine' and cannot be changed.

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[aradford]

Hi Mike,

are you still having issues with this?

Adam

[stacbrow]

Hi Mike,

Did this work? APIC-Em on VMWare Workstation? 

I was planning to do this for lab purposes, but because VMWare Workstation is not listed as a supported virtual machine for APIC-EM, not sure if the image will successful operate.