Starting The Restore Utility Using Lights-Out Management - Cisco 750 Getting Started Manual

— For a serial connection, when you see the BIOS boot options, press Tab slowly and repeatedly (to prevent
the appliance from booting the currently installed version of the system). The LILO boot prompt appears.
For example:
LILO 22.8 boot:
System-5.4 System_Restore
4. Indicate that you want to restore the system:
— For a keyboard and monitor connection, use the arrow keys to select
— For a serial connection, type
The prompt appears after the following choices:
boot
0. Load with standard console
1. Load with serial console
5. Select a display mode for the restore utility's interactive menu:
— For a keyboard and monitor connection, type
— For a serial connection, type
If you do not select a display mode, the restore utility defaults to the standard console after 30 seconds.
Unless this is the first time you have restored the appliance to this major version, the utility automatically loads
the last restore configuration you used. To continue, confirm the settings in a series of pages.
6. Press Enter to confirm the copyright notice.
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Starting the Restore Utility Using Lights-Out Management

If you need to restore an appliance to factory defaults and do not have physical access to the appliance, you can
use LOM to perform the restore process. Note that if you want to use LOM to configure the initial setup, you must
preserve the network settings during the initial setup. Note also that you can use Lights-Out Management on the
default ( ) management interface only.
eth0
Note: Before you can restore an appliance using LOM, you must enable the feature; see
Management, page
To start the restore utility using Lights-Out Management:
1. At your computer's command prompt, enter the IPMI command to start the SOL session:
For IPMItool, type:
sudo ipmitool -I lanplus -H IP_address -U username sol activate
For ipmiutil, type:
sudo ipmiutil sol -a -V4 -J3 -N IP_address -U username -P password
Where
IP_address
authorized LOM account, and
password after you issue the
If you are using a Firepower device, type
1. Reboot the appliance as root user. For a Firepower device, type
The appliance reboots.
Cisco Firepower Management Center Getting Started Guide
System_Restore
and press Enter.
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Using the Interactive Menu to Restore an Appliance, page
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is the IP address of the management interface on the appliance,
is the password for that account. Note that IPMItool prompts you for the
password
command.
sol activate
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Restoring a Firepower Management Center to Factory Defaults
at the prompt and press Enter.
and press Enter.
0
to display the shell prompt.
system reboot
and press Enter.
System_Restore
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Setting Up Lights-Out
is user name of an
username
.
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