Using A Console Session On The Serial Port; Changing Passwords - HP A7533A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch Base Administrator's Manual

4. Verify that the login was successful.
The prompt displays the switch name and user ID to which you are connected.
login: admin
password: xxxxxxx
switch:admin>

Using a console session on the serial port

Note the following behaviors for serial connections:
• Some procedures require that you connect through the serial port; for example, setting the IP address or
setting the boot PROM password.
• If you are using a Fabric OS version prior to 6.x, and secure mode is enabled, connect through the
serial port of the primary FCS switch.
4/256 SAN Director and DC Director: You can connect to CP0 or CP1 using either of the two
•
serial ports.
To connect through the serial port:
1. Connect the serial cable to the serial port on the switch and to an RS-232 serial port on the workstation.
If the serial port on the workstation is RJ-45 instead of RS-232, remove the adapter on the end of the
serial cable and insert the exposed RJ-45 connector into the RJ-45 serial port on the workstation.
2. Open a terminal emulator application (such as HyperTerminal on a PC, or TERM, TIP, or Kermit in a
UNIX environment), and configure the application as follows:
• In a Windows environment:
Parameter
Bits per second
Databits
Parity
Stop bits
Flow control
• In a UNIX environment, enter the following string at the prompt:
tip /dev/ttyb -9600
If ttyb is already in use, use ttya instead and enter the following string at the prompt:
tip /dev/ttya -9600

Changing passwords

The switch automatically prompts you to change the default account passwords after logging in for the first
time. If you do not change the passwords, the switch prompts you after each subsequent login until all the
default passwords have been changed.
NOTE: The default account passwords can be changed from their original value only when prompted
immediately following the login; the passwords cannot be changed using the passwd command later in
the session. If you skip the prompt, and then later decide to change the passwords, log out and then back
in.
The default accounts on the switch are admin, user, root, and factory. Use the default administrative
account as shown in
tasks.
Value
9600
8
None
1
None
Table 3 to log into the switch for the first time and to perform the basic configuration
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