Cisco 5508 - remote access query

[darren-carr]

Hi all,

I am working on a pair of Cisco 5508's. I need to make an IP address change to the management interface of the device, remotely. When I make the change I will lose access to the appliance.

We currently trunk a number of vlans from the core switch to the controllers. I was wondering if I created an interface, associated it with a vlan that was trunked to the device, and added an ip address that was routable, that I would be able to administer the device? Or can you only administer the device from the managment interface?

I don't have remote access to the console port.

These are production devices that I need to raise a change request for hence me not trying this before posting the query.

Thanks,

Darren                  

[Scott Fella · Accepted solution]

You can only manage it by the management ip by default. You can enable management via dynamic interface using this command.

config network mgmt-via-dynamic-interface

I have done this numerous times. I have just made sure the trunk port allowed the new vlan and I made a change to the manager ip of the WLC and hit apply. Then I open a new browser to the new ip. You can donut either way.

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