Tuesday, March 18, 2014

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

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