Cisco ASR 9910 Bash Shell Access

[crench92]

I’m wondering why I can’t access the shell of the ASR 9K we have in our lab.  We don’t have any applications running on it as we are pretty green in the area but I’ve been trying to learn more and actually setup a demo on Telemetry Streaming.  What I’m running into is I can’t bring up the bash shell like every document seems to mention should be easily done.  I can only get the Korn shell, even if I type run bash.  I’m assuming all 64-bit ASRs with IOS XR 6 should be able to at least shell into what is mentioned in this article https://xrdocs.io/application-hosting/blogs/2016-06-28-xr-app-hosting-architecture-quick-look/.  We are currently running 6.1.4.  Any thoughts on what I need?

[Douglas Ramirez]

Hi, 

Are you sure you are running eXR software release 6.1.4 ?

Can you share sh inst act output.  

Thx,

Douglas 

[crench92]

Mon Oct 8 11:30:58.599 UTC
Secure Domain Router: Owner

Node 0/RSP0/CPU0 [RP] [SDR: Owner]
Boot Device: disk0:
Boot Image: /disk0/asr9k-os-mbi-6.1.4/0x100305/mbiasr9k-rsp3.vm
Active Packages:
disk0:asr9k-services-infra-6.1.4
disk0:asr9k-9000v-nV-px-6.1.4
disk0:asr9k-bng-px-6.1.4
disk0:asr9k-doc-px-6.1.4
disk0:asr9k-fpd-px-6.1.4
disk0:asr9k-k9sec-px-6.1.4
disk0:asr9k-li-px-6.1.4
disk0:asr9k-mcast-px-6.1.4
disk0:asr9k-mgbl-px-6.1.4
disk0:asr9k-mini-px-6.1.4
disk0:asr9k-mpls-px-6.1.4
disk0:asr9k-optic-px-6.1.4
disk0:asr9k-services-px-6.1.4
disk0:asr9k-video-px-6.1.4

Node 0/RSP1/CPU0 [RP] [SDR: Owner]
Boot Device: disk0:
Boot Image: /disk0/asr9k-os-mbi-6.1.4/0x100305/mbiasr9k-rsp3.vm
Active Packages:
disk0:asr9k-services-infra-6.1.4
disk0:asr9k-9000v-nV-px-6.1.4
disk0:asr9k-bng-px-6.1.4
disk0:asr9k-doc-px-6.1.4
disk0:asr9k-fpd-px-6.1.4
disk0:asr9k-k9sec-px-6.1.4
disk0:asr9k-li-px-6.1.4
disk0:asr9k-mcast-px-6.1.4
disk0:asr9k-mgbl-px-6.1.4
disk0:asr9k-mini-px-6.1.4
disk0:asr9k-mpls-px-6.1.4
disk0:asr9k-optic-px-6.1.4
disk0:asr9k-services-px-6.1.4
disk0:asr9k-video-px-6.1.4

Node 0/0/CPU0 [LC] [SDR: Owner]
Boot Device: mem:
Boot Image: /disk0/asr9k-os-mbi-6.1.4/lc/mbiasr9k-lc.vm
Active Packages:
disk0:asr9k-services-infra-6.1.4
disk0:asr9k-bng-px-6.1.4
disk0:asr9k-k9sec-px-6.1.4
disk0:asr9k-li-px-6.1.4
disk0:asr9k-mcast-px-6.1.4
disk0:asr9k-mini-px-6.1.4
disk0:asr9k-mpls-px-6.1.4
disk0:asr9k-optic-px-6.1.4
disk0:asr9k-services-px-6.1.4
disk0:asr9k-video-px-6.1.4

Node 0/7/CPU0 [LC] [SDR: Owner]
Boot Device: mem:
Boot Image: /disk0/asr9k-os-mbi-6.1.4/lc/mbiasr9k-lc.vm
Active Packages:
disk0:asr9k-services-infra-6.1.4
disk0:asr9k-bng-px-6.1.4
disk0:asr9k-k9sec-px-6.1.4
disk0:asr9k-li-px-6.1.4
disk0:asr9k-mcast-px-6.1.4
disk0:asr9k-mini-px-6.1.4
disk0:asr9k-mpls-px-6.1.4
disk0:asr9k-optic-px-6.1.4
disk0:asr9k-services-px-6.1.4
disk0:asr9k-video-px-6.1.4

[Douglas Ramirez · Accepted solution]

That is Classic XR (32 bits QNX), so you need to migrate to eXR (64 bits linux kernel) first in order to use bash shell, please take a look at below  article for migration steps. 

https://community.cisco.com/t5/service-providers-blogs/asr9k-ios-xr-64-bit-is-now-on-cco/ba-p/3104082

Thx, 

Douglas 

[Douglas Ramirez]

Just forgot to mention that only the following RSPs are supported by eXR 

A99-RP2-SE

A99-RP2-TR

A9K-RSP880-SE

A9K-RSP880-TR

Thx,

Douglas 

[crench92]

Seeing as the RSP i have doesn't meet the requirements, i also tried implementing the ASR 9000v instance in a virtual environment.  I just want to use the demo version of this but i cant login with any creds?  Is there documentation somewhere that shows what the defaults are for this.  I only want to use it in demo mode to try implementing streaming telemetry.

[Douglas Ramirez]

Here follows follows the installation requirements for IOS XRv 9000 

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/routers/virtual-routers/configuration/guide/b-xrv9k-cg/b-xrv9k-cg_chapter_0111.html

Have you tried admin/admin or cisco/cisco 

Also, have you checked devnet learning labs 

https://learninglabs.cisco.com

Look under tracks / IOS XR Programmability and you can try out bash shell features and streaming telemetry.

Thx,

Douglas 

[crench92]

i have tried every one of these combinations:

https://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios_xr_sw/ios_xrv/install_config/b_xrvr_432_chapter_0100.html#concept_45714A7EDC9A40A3B90BEF2F01539ECC