Reset password – Dell PowerVault MD3000 User Manual
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Storage Array
7 Press to set the
speed
to
115200.
8
P
ress to set the
data
,
parity
, and
stopbits
to
8-N-1
, then
press
9 Press
10 Select Exit and press
Reset Password
NOTICE:
Failure to stop data I/O to a non-fault-tolerant array before performing the
following steps may result in loss of data.
1 Stop all I/O to the array.
2 From the HyperTerminal (Windows) or MINICOM (Linux) window, press
3 At the SPECIAL OPERATIONS MENU, press <1>, <0>, and
4 At the SERIAL INTERFACE MODE MENU, press <1> and
then and
5 At the BOOT OPERATIONS MENU, press
restart the controller. Text scrolls across the screen as the controller
reboots.
6 Once Controller 0 has fully booted (look for
sodMain complete
in the
HyperTerminal or MINICOM window), press
7 At the prompt, type
clearSYMbolPassword
(must use exact case)
and press
The return
value = 0 = 0x0
indicates that the password has been
reset /deleted.
8 Close HyperTerminal or MINICOM.
9 Remove password reset cable.
10 To set a new password, go to the Modular Disk Storage Manager software
under the Tools tab and click Set Or Change Password Link.
11 Leave the Current Password blank, enter the new password twice, and
click OK.