cat0S vs native IOS

Question

I have 6 Catalyst 6500's with Native IOS.  I also have 2 Catalyst 6500's with hybrid (Cat OS in the SUP for layer 2 and IOS in the MSFC).

I plan to convert these two into Native in the future, but in the mean time I want to use Cirrus to keep track of their configurations.

Cirrus logs into the MSFCs without any problem, but can't seem to log into the Sup module.  When I log in manually, the ID/password works fine with one quirk.  Whenever I log into the Sup Mod, I have to enter ENABLE mode.  TACACS doesn't pass me automaticly into ENABLE like the other Catalysts.

I just figured out that when I log in manually, I need to hit 'enter' after the ID/Password and before the enable command.  Otherwise the prompt never comes back.

Has anyone run into this and already figured out a work around?

Thank you.

Michael Kocsis
Data Communications
City of Tampa

Rickmb · Answer

If I understand the situation, when you log onto the Cat OS switches, you're not in enable mode.  If this is correct, I 'fixed' it by a change on the ACS server (we're using Cisco's ACS server).