Configure router to use the Cisco Configuration Professional

In this post I will configure router for CCP (Cisco Configuration Professional).
First of all you have to download CCP installation from Cisco http://www.cisco.com/go/ciscocp then install CCP like any windows application. After that configure router to be able to run CCP.

•    Enable HTTP and HTTPS
•    Configure HTTP for local authentication
•    Create local user with privilege level 15
•    VTY line with protocol ssh/telnet must be enabled with local authentication.
•    And as I recently read in Cisco documentation, an http timeout policy must be configured with the parameters (ip http timeout-policy idle 60 life 86400 requests 10000) to avoid launch issue with Cisco CP.

Router> enable
Router#
Router# config terminal
Router(config)#
Router(config)# username ccpuser privilege 15 secret 0 ccppass
Router(config)# ip http server

 
Router(config)# ip http secure-server
Router(config)# ip http authentication local
Router(config)# ip http timeout-policy idle 60 life 86400 requests 10000
Router(config)# line vty 0 4
Router(config-line)# privilege level 15
Router(config-line)# login local
Router(config-line)# transport input telnet
Router(config-line)# transport input telnet ssh
Router(config-line)# exit
Router# copy runnin-config startup-config
 
Run Cisco Configuration Professional application from your PC, and choose the Community which have the router you want to configure or enter ip address, username and password which you configure earlier. In my case it is 192.168.10.1 , ccpuser, ccppass and click OK.

In order to discover the device you want to configure, highlight the router and click the Discover
button.

After device has been discovered its pop up the  Security Certification Alert, just click Yes.

 

And as you can see we are connected to a router...
Next time I will configure router to use NAT and DHCP using CCP.

Until next time try it yourself.