HP Cisco Nexus 5000 Cisco MDS 9000 Family CLI Configuration Guide - Release 4. - Page 154

Initial Setup Routine Chapter 5 Initial Configuration Send documentation comments to [email protected] Default Login All Cisco MDS 9000 Family switches have the network administrator as a default user (admin). You cannot change the default user at any time (see the "Role-Based Authorization" section on page 32-1). There is no default password so you must explicitly configure a strong password. If a password is trivial (short, easy-to-decipher), your password configuration is rejected. Be sure to configure a strong password (see the ). If you configure and subsequently forget this new password, you have the option to recover this password (see the "Recovering the Administrator Password" section on page 32-19). Note The Cisco Fabric Switch for IBM BladeCenter does not use admin as the default user. The default user is USERID because there is no console access to the switch. You cannot delete the user USERID on this switch. The password for this default user is PASSW0RD, where the "0" is a zero. You can change this password; however, a write erase operation restores the default password. There is no initial setup menu. Also note that you should not bring up the loader> prompt; the only way to fix this condition is to RMA the switch. The following commands are not allowed on the Cisco Fabric Switch for IBM BladeCenter: write erase boot and init system. You also cannot set boot variables manually. Note If you issue a write erase command and reload the switch, you must reconfigure the default user (admin) password using the setup procedure. Setup Options The setup scenario differs based on the subnet to which you are adding the new switch. You must configure a Cisco MDS 9000 Family switch with an IP address to enable management connections from outside of the switch. Note Some concepts such as out-of-band management and in-band management are briefly explained here. These concepts are explained in more detail in subsequent chapters. • Out-of-band management-This feature provides a connection to the network through a supervisor module front panel Ethernet port (see Figure 5-1). • In-band management-This feature provides IP over Fibre Channel (IPFC) to manage the switches. The in-band management feature is transparent to the network management system (NMS). Instead of conventional Ethernet physical media, switches in the Cisco MDS 9000 Family use IPFC as the transport mechanism (see Figure 5-1 and Chapter 44, "Configuring IP Services"). Cisco MDS 9000 Family CLI Configuration Guide 5-4 OL-18084-01, Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 4.x