Recovering User, Admin, And Factory Passwords; How To Recover Passwords - HP A7533A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch Base Administrator's Manual

1. Determine the active CP blade by opening a telnet session to either CP blade, connecting as admin,
and entering the haShow command.
2. Connect to the active CP blade by serial or telnet and enter the haDisable command to prevent
failover during the remaining steps.
3. Create a serial connection to the standby CP blade as described in
on page 26.
4. SAN Director 2/128 and 4/256 SAN Director: Reboot the standby CP blade by sliding the
On/Off switch on the ejector handle of the standby CP blade to Off, and then back to On.
This causes the blade to reset.
5. Press ESC within four seconds after the message "Press escape within 4 seconds..." displays.
The following options are available:
Option
1 Start system.
2 Recovery password.
3 Enter command shell. Provides access to boot parameters.
6. Enter 3.
Enter the passwd command at the shell prompt.
7.
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; then reenter it when prompted. The password must be
eight 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 blade by entering the reset command.
1 1. Connect to the active CP blade by serial or telnet and enter the haEnable command to restore high
availability; then fail over the active CP blade by entering the haFailover command.
Traffic resumes flowing through the newly active CP blade after it has completed rebooting.
12. Connect the serial cable to the serial port on the new standby CP blade (previously the active
CP blade).
13. Repeat step 3
14. Connect to the active CP blade by serial or telnet and enter the haEnable command to restore high
availability.

Recovering user, admin, and factory passwords

If you know the root password, you can use this procedure to recover the user, admin, and factory
passwords.

How to recover 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:
4. Enter the requested information at the prompts.
Description
Continues the system boot process.
Lets you set the recovery string and the boot PROM
password.
through step 10 for the new standby CP blade.
passwd user
passwd admin
passwd factory
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