After upgrade firmware, I cannot login on the switch!

[Anonymous]

Well, thank you! I will try during the day...

[Anonymous]

"5. Send the character string to your switch support provider to obtain a Boot PROM recovery password." - Who should I send a character string?

[ABBA-SYSTEMS]

sheff,

you must procede whit FOS Password Recovery, and not whit Boot PROM.

the character string consist only to obbait a new Password when BootProm Password was lost, this are TWO different things.

[Anonymous]

Ok! It works!

I did -

1. Connect the serial console to the SAN switch (or  director). (Default serial console settings: Baud rate€“ 9600, Data  bits 8, Parity€“ none, Stop bits -1, Flow control none).

2. Reboot the switch

3. Press ESC at the message “Hit ESC to stop autoboot:€œ, the Boot PROM menu displays with the following options:

1) Start system.

2) Recover password.

3) Enter command shell.

Option?

4. Type "3€" to Enter Command shell.

1) Start system.

2) Recover password.

3) Enter command shell.

Option? 3

Boot PROM password has not been set.

=>

5. Run the "printenv"€ command to check the environment variables (This step is optional).

=> printenv

AutoLoad=yes
ENET_MAC=00051E907F99
InitTest=MEM()
LoadIdentifiers=Fabric Operating System;Fabric Operating System
OSLoadOptions=quiet;quiet
OSLoader=ATA()0x9dfc7;ATA()0x1a24e8
OSRootPartition=hda1;hda2
SkipWatchdog=yes
gatewayip=192.168.36.4
ipaddr=192.168.36.61
submask=255.255.255.0

6. Set the environment variable "€œOSLoadOptions" to single

=> setenv OSLoadOptions=single

7. Run the command œauto

=> auto

8. After the switch boot in single user mode, remount the / partition as read/write:

sh-2.04# mount -o remount,rw,noatime /

9.  Mount the second partition to /mnt (this will get from the value of "€œOSRootPartition"€ variable in "€œprintenv" output€“ usually it  will be "€œhda2", that is, /dev/hda2)

sh-2.04# mount /dev/hda2 /mnt

10. Verify the mounted file systems by running the "€œmount"€ command:

sh-2.04# mount

/dev/root on / type unknown (rw,noatime)

none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=620)
none on /tmp type ramfs (rw)

/dev/hda2 on /mnt type ext3 (rw)

11. Run the "œpasswddefault"€ command as follows:

sh-2.04# /sbin/passwddefault

12. Reboot the switch.

sh-2.04# reboot

After this steps, I can logged in to switch via root/fibranne

Thanks!

[ABBA-SYSTEMS]

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[Anonymous]

Hi I've had the same problem. Does this procedure delete the switch config?

[felipon]

Hi Hiten,

That procedure only set the passwords back to default, it does not modify the switch config.

Rgds,

Felipon