Steps to change the password on a Cisco Switch

Steps to change the password on a Cisco Switch

By Nabil Nawaz, Viscosity NA

These steps were used to change the password on a Cisco Switch on Exadata X2.

Telnet to cisco switch(IP Address of Switch) $ telnet <IPADDRESS>

·         Enable command line for switch

telnet> enable

·         Prepare to configure switch

ciscoswitch-ip# configure terminal

exapsw-ip(config)#line vty 0 15

exapsw-ip(config-line)#login

·         Change the password

exapsw-ip(config-line)#password newpassword

exapsw-ip(config-line)#login

exapsw-ip(config-line)#end

• ·         Save the changes to the switch

exapsw-ip#write memory

Building configuration...

Compressed configuration from 4001 bytes to 1608 bytes[OK]

exapsw-ip#

• ·         Try logging again to verify password change