Password Recovery for Nexus Switches
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- On a Windows PC, change the keyboard layout to
en-US
- Connect to the Nexus switch directly via serial console (not over ssh/telnet/Opengear etc.) using TeraTerm or PuTTY
The above two steps are not required any longer. Issueing the break sequence with a german keyboard through an Opengear console session works fine (Strg + AltGr + 9
).
- Power on the device
- Wait until kickstart image has booted and the POST messages have appeared.
- Right after the massage
Checking all filesystems....r. done.
has appeared, issue the break sequence to get to theswitch(boot)#
prompt.- The break sequence is
Ctrl + ]
, i.e. hold the Control-Key and hit the closing square bracket. - On a german keyboard (with US keymap activated) the Control-Key is
Strg
and the closing square bracket ist on the+ * ~
- Key.
- The break sequence is
- Enter the
conf t
command - Type
admin-password Ad123min
- Type
exit
- Type
dir bootflash:
to view bootflash content - Boot the system image, for example
load bootflash:n5000-uk9.5.1.3.N2.1b.bin
- Enter the switch with username
admin
and PasswordAd123min
- Save configuration:
copy running-config startup-config
The following steps are if you want to delete all previous added configs.
- Type
write erase
to delete all configs. - Type
reload
to restart system. - Save configuration:
copy running-config startup-config