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End-of-Life (EoL)
Access the CLI
Use a terminal emulator, such as PuTTY, to
connect to the CLI of a Palo Alto Networks device in one of the
following ways:
Serial Connection
—If you have not yet completed initial
configuration or if you chose not to enable SSH on the Palo Alto
Networks device, you can establish a direct serial connection from
a serial interface on your management computer to the Console port
on the device.
Launch the terminal emulation software and select
the type of connection (Serial or SSH).
To establish an SSH connection, enter the hostname
or IP address of the device you want to connect to and set the port
to
22
.
To establish a Serial connection, connect a serial interface
on management computer to the Console port on the device. Configure
the Serial connection settings in the terminal emulation software
as follows:
When prompted to log in, enter your administrative username.
If prompted to acknowledge
the login banner, enter
Yes
.
Enter the administrative password.
The default superuser password is
admin
.
However, for security reasons you should immediately change the
admin
password.
After you log in, the
message of the day displays,
followed by the CLI prompt in Operational mode:
username@hostname>
You
can tell you are in operational mode because the command prompt
ends with a
>
.
