Recovering forgotten passwords – HP Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch for HP BladeSystem p-Class User Manual
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3.
Create a serial connection to the standby CP card as described in ”
To connect through the serial port:
4.
For the Core Switch 2/64, reboot the standby CP card by pressing the yellow ejector buttons at top
and bottom of the CP card and then pressing both ejector handles back towards the switch to lock the
card back into the slot.
For the SAN Director 2/128, reboot the standby CP card by sliding the On/Off switch on the ejector
handle of the standby CP card to Off, and then back to On.
This causes the card to reset.
5.
Press ESC within four seconds after the message
Press escape within 4 seconds
appears.
The following options are available:
6.
Enter
3
.
7.
Issue the
passwd
command at the shell prompt.
NOTE:
The
passwd
command only applies to the boot PROM password when it is entered from the boot
interface.
8.
Enter the boot PROM password at the prompt and then reenter it when prompted. The password must
be 8 alphanumeric characters (any additional characters are not recorded). Record this password for
future use.
9.
Enter the
saveenv
command to save the new password.
10.
Reboot the standby CP card by entering the
reset
command.
11.
Connect to the active CP card by serial or telnet, enter the
haenable
command to restore HA, and
then fail over the active CP card by entering the
hafailover
command.
Traffic resumes flowing through the newly active CP card after it has completed rebooting.
12.
Connect the serial cable to the serial port on the new standby CP card (previously the active CP card).
13.
Repeat
14.
Connect to the active CP card by serial or telnet and enter the
haenable
command to restore HA.
Recovering forgotten passwords
If you know the root password, you can use this procedure to recover the user, admin, and
factory passwords:
1.
Open a CLI connection (serial or telnet) to the switch. If secure mode is enabled, connect to the
primary FCS switch.
2.
Log in as root.
3.
Enter the command for the type of password that was lost:
passwd user
passwd admin
passwd factory
• 1 Start system
Continues the system boot process
• 2 Recovery password
Lets you set the recovery string and the boot PROM password
• 3 Enter command shell
Provides access to boot parameters