Need to reset your Cisco Catalyst 3750 back to the factory default settings? Have you forgotten your password? Well you have come to the right place. Note that I am assuming that you have already established a console connection to the switch using a Cisco serial cable (rollover cable).
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How to Manage Password Aging in Solaris, AIX, and Linux
LogoIts possible that sometime in your short, meaningless life, you may need to create an account that has a password that is set to never expire. This is somethimes the case with headless accounts and specialty accounts such as the type you might have to setup for monitoring or security scanning. You might also find yourself setting up shared headless accounts that have locked passwords in order to block direct logins. This second scenario can be especially troublesome when this is some sort of application or database user with cron jobs, as even an account without a password and expire and lock. If this occurs all of a users cron jobs will fail. All because the account expired.
How to Reset Cisco Catalyst 2960 Back to Factory Defaults
This is my first post in what I hope to be a long line of Cisco networking related posts, as I have just gotten my hands on a bit of used Cisco equipment and hope to use it to setup a home lab. First step of setting up this home lab is to get my two Catalyst 2960s reset to factory defaults. So here is how you do it. Note that I am assuming that you have already established a console connection to the switch.
Reset HP ILO Via the Command Line
Its not unheard of that an HP ILO can become sick and slow down to a crawl. When this occurs a restart of the ILO is in order, which is easily accomplished via the ILO cli interface. Make sure that you have enabled ssh access in ilo.