HP Cisco Nexus 5000 Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch CLI Software Configuration - Page 728

Power Cycling the Switch Troubleshooting Step 3 Example: switch# configure terminal switch(config)# username admin password switch(config)# exit Save the configuration. Example: switch# copy running-config startup-config Power Cycling the Switch If you cannot start a session on the switch that has network-admin privileges, you must recover the network administrator password by power cycling the switch. Caution This procedure disrupts all traffic on the switch. Note You cannot recover the administrator password from a Telnet or SSH session. You must have access to the local console connection. To recover the network administrator password by power cycling the switch, follow these steps: Establish a terminal session on the console port of the supervisor module. Procedure Step 1 Step 2 Power cycle the switch. Press the Ctrl-] key sequence from the console port session when the switch begins the Cisco NX-OS software boot sequence to enter the boot prompt mode. Note In releases of Cisco NX-OS prior to 4.0(1a) the key sequence to enter the boot prompt mode was Ctrl-Shift-B. Example: Ctrl-] switch(boot)# Step 3 Reset the network administrator password. Step 4 Example: switch(boot)# configure terminal switch(boot-config)# admin-password switch(boot-config)# exit Display the bootflash: contents to locate the Cisco NX-OS software image file. Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch CLI Software Configuration Guide 682 OL-16597-01