Recovering Forgotten Passwords - HP A7533A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch Base Administrator's Manual

3. Create a serial connection to the standby CP blade as described in
the serial port" on page 31.
4. 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 4 seconds after the message
The following options are available:
Option
1 Start system.
2 Recovery password.
3 Enter command shell.
6. Enter 3.
7. Enter the passwd command at the shell prompt
NOTE:
the boot interface.
8. Enter the boot PROM password at the prompt, and then re-enter 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; and then fail over the active CP blade by entering the haFailover command.
Traffic resumes flowing through the newly active CP blade after it has finshed rebooting.
Connect the serial cable to the serial port on the new standby CP blade (previously the active
12.
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 forgotten passwords

If you know the root password, you can use this procedure to recover the password for the default accounts
of user, admin, and factory.
1. Open a CLI connection (serial or Telnet) to the switch.
OR
Connect to the primary FCS switch, if one exists in your fabric.
2. Log in as root.
3. Enter the command for the type of password that was lost:
passwd user
passwd admin
passwd factory
4. Enter the requested information at the prompts.
To recover a lost root password, contact your switch service provider.
To recover a lost boot PROM password, contact your switch service provider. You must have previously set
a recovery string to recover the boot PROM password.
82 Managing user accounts
Description
Continues the system boot process.
Lets you set the recovery string and the boot PROM password.
Provides access to boot parameters.
The passwd command applies only to the boot PROM password when it is entered from
through step 10 for the new standby CP blade.
"Connecting to Fabric OS through
Press escape within 4 seconds...
is displayed.