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Accessing the hardware appliance console
When you power on your hardware appliance, the hardware appliance console appears on the monitor. The hardware appliance console presents a user interface specific to Amazon that you can use to set an administrator password, configure initial network parameters, and open a support channel to Amazon.
To work with the hardware appliance console, enter text from the keyboard and use the
Up, Down, Right, and Left Arrow
keys to move about the screen in the indicated direction. Use the Tab key
to move forward in order through items on-screen. On some setups, you can use the
Shift+Tab keystroke to move sequentially backward. Use the
Enter key to save selections, or to choose a button on the
screen.
The first time the hardware appliance console appears, the Welcome page is displayed, and you are prompted to set a password for the admin user account before you can access the console.
To set an admin password
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At the Please set your login password prompt, do the following:
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For Set Password, enter a password, and then press
Down arrow. -
For Confirm, re-enter your password, and then choose Save Password.
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After you set your password, the hardware console Home page appears. The Home page displays network information for the em1, em2, em3, and em4 network interfaces, and has the following menu options:
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Configure Network
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Open Guest Console
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Change Password
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Logout
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Open Support Console
Next step
Configuring hardware appliance network parameters