SDM Installation on 2611XM

Hi All,

I am trying to install SDM on an Cisco 2611XM Router.

Please see Router config below for SDM.

Router#show flash:

System flash directory:
File Length Name/status
1 25279520 c2600-spservicesk9-mz.124-5.bin
2 1038 home.shtml
3 2754 sdmconfig-26xx.cfg
4 112640 home.tar
5 931840 es.tar
6 1505280 common.tar
[27833460 bytes used, 5196680 available, 33030140 total]
32768K bytes of processor board System flash (Read/Write)

Router#show run | include http
ip http server
ip http authentication local
no ip http secure-server

Router#show run | include username
username admin privilege 15 password 0 cisco

Router#show run | incl dhcp
no ip dhcp use vrf connected
ip dhcp excluded-address 192.168.200.1 192.168.200.100
ip dhcp pool LAN

Laptop IP Configuration:

C:\>ipconfig

Windows IP Configuration

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::c031:d5f9:6a9b:bd63%11
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.200.101
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.200.1

However, when trying to run the SDM wizard on my laptop to install it directly on the Router, I keep receiving the error message as attached on the thumbnails.

Any ideas, why this is happening?

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Comments

logicmyfoot

Be ready for some very poor quality SDM pics. VPN, ZBF,AAA are a some topics with big focus on. The exam is about 90 mins and i got about 60 questions

peanutnoggin

logicmyfoot wrote: »

Be ready for some very poor quality SDM pics. VPN, ZBF,AAA are a some topics with big focus on. The exam is about 90 mins and i got about 60 questions

+1 and good luck! I would lab as much as I could between now and then with SDM and CLI for all topics listed in the blueprint. HTH

-Peanut

humdingy02

According to Cisco's site, you do need 'ip http secure-server' and you have it set to no.

I also have a 2611XM, and I thought running SDM required 48MB of flash. You have 32MB, and after the IOS is loaded you're down to 5M of free space. Just a side note, it wouldn't have anything to do with connectivity.

QHalo

humdingy02 wrote: »

According to Cisco's site, you do need 'ip http secure-server' and you have it set to no.

I also have a 2611XM, and I thought running SDM required 48MB of flash. You have 32MB, and after the IOS is loaded you're down to 5M of free space. Just a side note, it wouldn't have anything to do with connectivity.

Actually you don't need ip http secure-server enabled unless you want to 443 to the router. All you need is:

ip http server
ip http authentication local
username <whatever> privilege 15 secret <whatever>

Here

I'd also go with a local install of SDM. I find it better than attempting to use SDM from the router. It's very CPU intensive when you run it from the router.

Can you ping the router from that machine? Are you sure DHCP is working right? I'd go with static IP addressing to rule out anything wrong with your DHCP setup first.

RS_MCP

I have installed SDM locally on my laptop and when connecting to the Router from my web browser I only seem to be running SDM Express.

I want to be able to run the full version of SDM, have I installed the incorrect SDM setup?

peanutnoggin

RS_MCP wrote: »

I have installed SDM locally on my laptop and when connecting to the Router from my web browser I only seem to be running SDM Express.

I want to be able to run the full version of SDM, have I installed the incorrect SDM setup?

RS_MCP,

Are you sure you've downloaded the correct version of SDM? Version 2.5? I've not personally used the SDM Express... but if you go to Cisco's site, you should be able to download the SDM 2.5. HTH.

-Peanut

QHalo

Just by looking at the files you listed in flash, I see an es.tar. That's the express setup that normally runs off of 10.10.10.1 when you first start up a router. It doesn't appear that you have all the other necessary files to run the full version of SDM. As peanut said, I'd download the full 2.5 version from Cisco and then install on a local machine and then attempt connection. You're flash is too full to support holding all the files and the IOS for the device.

SDM Express is a simpler version of SDM which is usually just enough to get someone who has very little idea how to setup a Cisco device enough walkthrough to get it configured basically.