Starting The Restore Utility Using Lights-Out Management - Cisco 7010 Installation Manual

Chapter 8 Restoring a Firepower System Appliance to Factory Defaults
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Indicate that you want to restore the system:
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Step 5 Select a display mode for the restore utility's interactive menu:
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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.
Press Enter to confirm the copyright notice.
Step 6
What to Do Next
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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 (
Before you can restore an appliance using LOM, you must enable the feature; see
Note
Management, page
To start the restore utility using Lights-Out Management:
At your computer's command prompt, enter the IPMI command to start the SOL session:
Step 1
If the system is performing a database check, you may see the following message:
not operational yet. Checking and repairing database are in progress. This may take
a long time to finish.
For a keyboard and monitor connection, quickly press one of the arrow keys to prevent the appliance
from booting the currently installed version of the system.
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
For a keyboard and monitor connection, use the arrow keys to select
Enter.
For a serial connection, type
prompt appears after the following choices:
boot
0. Load with standard console
1. Load with serial console
For a keyboard and monitor connection, type
For a serial connection, type
Continue with Using the Interactive Menu to Restore an Appliance, page
Admin
Access:
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at the prompt and press Enter.
System_Restore
and press Enter.
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and press Enter.
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Firepower 7000 and 8000 Series Installation Guide
Beginning the Restore Process
The system is
and press
System_Restore
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Setting Up Lights-Out
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