|  | 5.2 | System Configuration Dialog
| 5.2.2 | Setting up global parameters
After viewing the current interface summary, a prompt will appear on your monitor, indicating that you are to enter the global parameters for your router. These parameters are the configuration values you select. A prompt appears on your monitor, as illustrated in Figure . It indicates that you are to enter the global parameters that you set for your router. These parameters are the configuration values you decided on. The first global parameter allows you to set the router host name. This host name will be part of the Cisco IOS prompts for all configuration modes. At initial configuration, the router name default will be displayed between square brackets as [Router]. Use the next global parameters shown in the graphic to set the various passwords used on the router. You must enter an enable password. When you enter a string of password characters for the prompt, "Enter enable secret"; the characters are processed by Cisco proprietary encryption. This enhances the security of the password string. Whenever anyone lists the contents of the router configuration file, this enable password appears as a meaningless string of characters. Setup recommends, but does not require, that the "enable password" be different from the "enable secret word". The "enable secret word" is a one-way cryptographic secret word that is used instead of the "enable password" when it exists. The "enable password" is used when no "enable secret word" exists. It is also used when using older versions of the IOS. When you are prompted for parameters for each installed interface, as shown in Figure , use the configuration values that you have selected for your router. Whenever you answer yes to a prompt, additional questions may appear regarding the protocol.