Basic Cisco Switch Configuration Parameters

Let’s have a Idea about the basic Cisco switch configurations. Once your device is ready with a running IOS, you need to do some basic configurations on your device to make it up and working in your network. Here I have listed few basic configuration parameters that your device need to be configured with once ready.

1. Device Hostnames (If stacked, hostname will consider stack wise)
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3. Enable Secret Password
4. SSH:
   Username:
   Password:
   Domain:
   Execution Timeout period:
   
5. VLANS:
   No Of Vlans:
   VLANs List with respective Names:
6. Device Management:
   Management IPs (Device Wise/Stack Wise):
   Inbound Management Required?: Yes/No
7. Subnets along with VLAN (If required).
8. SVI IPs (If required).
9. Default Gateway / Next Hop IP for default routing.
10. Access & Trunk Port Details
11. Port wise Configuration: (If any)
    Bandwidth:
     Duplex:
     Any Other:
12. EtherChannel Ports (Logical & Physical) (If any).
13. VTP: (If Any)
    Domain:
    Version:
    Password (If any):
    Mode:
14. STP:
    Mode:
    Priority:
    Features:
    
15. Syslog (If any):
    Server IP:
16. SNMP (If any):
    Community String:
    Version:
    Server IP:

Few things are here considered as per the suggestions by Cisco. That’s why few things are left behind. Because the more enhanced configurations can mitigate the use of some lower secure or less featured configurations.