Cisco Configuration Professional 2.7 Download
Niki Wienberg
The information in this document was created from the devices in a specific lab environment. All of the devices used in this document started with a cleared (default) configuration. If your network is live, ensure that you understand the potential impact of any command.
This document describes how to use the Cisco Configuration Professional (CCP) in order to set the basic configuration of the router. Basic configuration of the router includes configuration of the IP address, default routing, static and dynamic routing, static and dynamic NAT, host name, banner, secret password, user accounts, and other options. CCP allows you to configure your router in several network environments, such as small office home office (SOHO), branch office (BO), regional office, and central site or Enterprise headquarters, with an easy-to-use web-based management interface.
Highlight the interface with which you want to make changes and click Edit if you want to edit or change the interface configuration. Here, you can change the current static IP address.
The Edit NAT Configuration window shows the dynamic NAT configuration with the translated IP address overloaded. If you want to configure the dynamic NAT with address pool, click Address Pool .
I'm having a bit of a bother with my attempts to install and run Cisco Configuration Professional software. From the cisco support website, the install instructions indicate a link to download the software for CCP. -> _mgmt/cisco_configuration_professional/guides/CiscoCPqsg.html#wp127222
Cisco CP is a valuable productivity enhancing tool for network administrators and channel partners for deploying routers with increased confidence and ease. It offers a one-click router lockdown and an innovative voice and security auditing capability to check and recommend changes to router configuration.
I have a cisco 881 router and wanted to configure it using cisco configuration professional. However flash has now come to the end of its life and I cant figure out how to get it to run on IE 11. I have downloaded the last desktop version of CCP (2.8).
So for example, on the diagram here, we have a device default configuration file that configures an IP address for a single Ethernet interface. And that may configure the device as the DHCP server, depends on your device.
Cisco Configuration Professional (Cisco CP) is installed on this device and it provides the default username "cisco" for one-time use. If you have already used the username "cisco" to login to the router and your IOS image supports the "one-time" user option, then this username has already expired. You will not be able to login to the router with this username after you exit this session.
However, I also found another nice little tidbit. I have an old Dell running Windows XP laying around that has a console port. I decided to keep it just for configuring devices. It also has Windows 7. I also found the old Cisco disc that came with the router and it allowed me to install SDM on the computer itself, and also installed Java 5. With that, now I have access to the router via console, SSH as well as SDM all on a machine which never needs to be updated. So I can just plug in this box and not have to worry about messing with the configuration of my regular workstation.
Cisco Configuration Professional can be used for configuration of NAT on a Cisco router. If you have read Chapter 9, you should be familiar with the process of setting up Cisco CP. If not, it is probably the right time to go back to Chapter 9 and review that material before proceeding. We will configure NAT overloading or PAT using Cisco CP. PAT is the most prevalent form of NAT, so it makes sense to use it for this section on Cisco CP.
I would encourage you to connect router R1 and the using CLI examine the configuration manually paying special attention to NAT configuration. This is the configuration that was generated and delivered to the router by GUI wizards of Cisco CP.
This is a really interesting chapter and you should have learned a lot about Network Address Translation (NAT) concepts and configuration. We configured NAT in three different flavors namely static, dynamic, and Port Address Translation (PAT) also known as NAT Overloading.
In order to stay focused on NAT concepts and not get lost in the itricacies of a complex topology, we used the same topology for different types of NAT configuration. It should have enabled you compare and contrast the three NAT types with relative ease.
Cisco Configuration Professional is a PC-based application that provides the device management for ISRs. It simplifies router, firewall, intrusion prevention system (IPS), VPN, unified communications, WAN, LAN, and basic wireless configuration through easy-to-use wizards.
Cisco Configuration Professional Express, a lightweight version of Cisco Configuration Professional, is an embedded device manager that is available on the router flash memory and can be used to configure some of the LAN and WAN interfaces and basic configurations to bootstrap the router.
Cisco Configuration Professional tools are valuable productivity-enhancing tools for network administrators and channel partners for deploying routers in medium-sized businesses and enterprise branch offices with increased confidence and ease. Cisco Configuration Professional tools have configuration checks built into the application, thereby reducing errors.
Cisco Configuration Professional and Express are device-management tools that your business can use to address these challenges. Cisco Configuration Professional provides in-depth configuration GUI screens to help you easily configure complex routing, security, and voice features in the router. Cisco Configuration Professional Express provides a GUI on the box to configure the WAN and LAN and bootstrap the router to be able to reach to a centralized management system.
As indicated previously, the Cisco Configuration Professional Express GUI is available on the router flash memory (Figure 1). The router comes with a default configuration, and Cisco Configuration Professional Express can be accessed through a browser by using the WAN IP address.using HTTP. Cisco Configuration Professional Express provides the necessary functions to bootstrap the routers. The user interface supports basic features including different WAN and LAN interfaces, static routes, user management, Domain Name System (DNS), Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), and Hostname configurations. It also provides the ability to configure the server on the router. The capability allows the router to get the complete configuration downloaded automatically from the ready-to-use server. Savvy users of the Cisco IOS Software CLI can execute and configure the Cisco IOS Software CLI on the routers using Cisco Configuration Professional Express. In addition, Express provides basic utility tools such as ping and traceroute as basic troubleshooting tools.
Cisco Configuration Professional smart wizards guide you step-by-step through router configuration workflow by systematically configuring LAN and WAN interfaces, firewalls, IPSs, and IP Security (IPsec) VPNs. These smart wizards can intelligently detect incorrect configurations and propose fixes, such as allowing DHCP traffic through a firewall if the WAN interface is DHCP-addressed. Online help embedded within Cisco Configuration Professional contains appropriate background information, in addition to step-by-step procedures to help you enter correct data into the application. Networking, security, and voice terms and definitions that you might encounter are included in an online glossary.
If you are a network professional familiar with Cisco IOS Software and security features, Cisco Configuration Professional offers advanced configuration tools to quickly configure and fine-tune router security features, allowing you to review the commands generated by the application before delivering the configuration changes to the router.
When invoked on an already configured router, Cisco Configuration Professional allows you to perform one-step security audits (Figure 2) to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of your router configurations against common security vulnerabilities. Administrators can fine-tune their existing router security configurations to better suit their business needs. They can also use Cisco Configuration Professional for day-to-day operations such as monitoring, fault management, and troubleshooting.
With Cisco Configuration Professional you can easily set up your Cisco IP telephony system by configuring the Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express call processing and Cisco Unity Express voicemail. When deploying a new IP telephony system using the application, you can configure it as a standalone Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express or as a gateway to Cisco Unified Communications Manager. You can quickly configure features required for an initial telephony deployment, including users, phones, extensions, dial plans, and analog and digital trunks. You can also configure voice system features such as paging groups, pickup groups, hunt groups, intercom, conferencing, etc. When invoked on an already-configured router, Cisco Configuration Professional allows an administrator to easily make day-2 changes such as moves, adds, and changes of phone users on the deployed configuration. Simply access the voice services provided under the voice folder on the Cisco Configuration Professional left pane to easily set up and configure the system (Figure 3).
Cisco Configuration Professional is ideal for enterprise branch offices and companies of all sizes that are sensitive to device deployment and network management costs and have few skilled technicians. Cisco Configuration Professional enhances the productivity of network, security, and voice administrators through built-in configuration checks, a configuration editor for experts, and meaningful defaults.
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