Brocade VDX 6720
Start the console session.
Plug in serial cable to device from PC COM1 port
Open PuTTY and select "Serial" connection type, leave baud rate (Speed) and other settings as default.
Plug power into device and if a power button exists, turn it on.
Access the commandline.
Press the Esc key during the countdown to stop autoboot:
Hit ESC to stop autoboot: 0
Type 3 to "Enter command shell.":
1) Start system. 2) Recover password. 3) Enter command shell. Option? 3 Boot PROM password has not been set.
Boot into single user mode.
Type the setenv command on the OSLoadOptions parameter with the value single at the => prompt:
=> setenv OSLoadOptions single
Type the printenv command and note the OSRootPartition values for step 4:
=> printenv AutoLoad=yes BootromVerbose=no InitTest=MEM() OSLoadOptions=single OSRootPartition=hda2;hda1
Type the boot command:
=> boot Map file at LBA sector 0x39c03f WARNING: adjusting available memory to 30000000 ## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 02000000 ... Image Name: Linux-2.6.34.6 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Multi-File Image (gzip compressed)
Reset passwords to default and reboot.
Remount the / partition as read/write:
INIT: version 2.78 booting sh-2.04# mount -o remount,rw,noatime / EXT3-fs (hda1): using internal journal
Mount the second partition to /mnt obtained from the value of OSRootPartition variable in the printenv output from step 3.
sh-2.04# mount /dev/hda2 /mnt
Verify the mounted file systems by running the mount command:
sh-2.04# mount /dev/root on / type unknown (rw,noatime) none on /proc type proc (rw) none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=620) none on /tmp type ramfs (rw) /dev/hda1 on /mnt type ext3 (rw,noatime) /dev/hda2 on /mnt type ext3 (rw)
Type the passwddefault command including the full folder path to it:
sh-2.04# /sbin/passwddefault All account passwords have been successfully set to factory default.
Type the bootenv OSLoadOptions "quiet/quiet" command to exit single user mode:
sh-2.04# bootenv OSLoadOptions "quiet/quiet"
Type the reboot command:
sh-2.04# reboot -f Restarting system.
Log in with default credentials
Type root for the login username and fibranne for the password:
epicentresw02 console login: root Password: fibranne Please change passwords for switch default accounts now. Use Control-C to exit or press 'Enter' key to proceed.
Press Ctrl C to skip password setting:
Password was not changed. Will prompt again at next login until password is changed.
Wait for the system to become "active" then type the version and licenseshow commands for your records:
******************************************* Notice: System has reached active state. ******************************************* sw0:root> version Kernel: 2.6.34.6 Network OS: 4.1.2a Made on: Mon Jul 7 21:12:00 2014 Flash: Thu Jan 8 06:01:54 2015 BootProm: 1.0.1 sw0:root> licenseshow No licenses installed.
Erase the configuration and reboot.
Type noscli for elevated privilege commandline access:
epicentresw01:root> noscli WARNING: The default password of 'admin' and 'user' accounts have not been changed. Welcome to the Brocade Network Operating System Software
Type the copy default-config startup-config command:
sw0# copy default-config startup-config This operation will reboot all switches in the cluster. Do you want to continue? [y/n]:y copy default-config to startup-config is being processed... All nodes will reboot and form the cluster newly. 2021/10/25-08:01:35, [RAS-1007], 23292,, INFO, VDX6720-24, System is about to reload. Restarting system.
Copy all the output from the session into your records.
Right-click PuTTY's titlebar, from that dropdown menu click on "Copy All to Clipboard"
Open the file of record certifying the deconfiguration of this device and use CTRL V to paste all the output from PuTTY into that file. Formatting the text with a fixed-width font helps it look more readable.
End the session.
Close PuTTy.