{"id":140,"date":"2012-09-05T11:27:20","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T09:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.infrastructurematters.nl\/?p=140"},"modified":"2012-09-05T11:27:20","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T09:27:20","slug":"cisco-mds-9120-password-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infrastructurematters.nl\/?p=140","title":{"rendered":"Cisco MDS 9120 Password recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In spare time, I often try to pry open old hardware that we received from customers. Most of the aren&#8217;t that hard, but some are more challenging. For example a Cisco MDS 9120 Multilayer FC switch. This one is totally different from the McData Sphereon 4500&#8217;s or EMC DS-24M2 and Brocades that I normally work with in my lab. Normal recovery procedures with the configuration register from Cisco (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cisco.com\/en\/US\/docs\/routers\/access\/2600\/hardware\/installation\/guide\/2600appC.html\">http:\/\/www.cisco.com\/en\/US\/docs\/routers\/access\/2600\/hardware\/installation\/guide\/2600appC.html)<\/a> won&#8217;t work either. OK, let&#8217;s google this, then.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/11415473\/Cisco-MDS-9000-Configuration-Guide#outer_page_346\">http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/11415473\/Cisco-MDS-9000-Configuration-Guide#outer_page_346<\/a> seems a nice hit. Just hit CTRL-j in the boot sequence and the switch(boot)# prompt appears. Right. But, after trying 5 times to get into the boot prompt, still no results. Back to the documentation. Read carefully: It&#8217;s not CTRL-j, but CTRL-]. I will try this tonight.<\/p>\n<p>I will read the documentation better.<br \/>\nI will read the documentation better.<br \/>\nI will read the documentation better.<br \/>\nI will read the documentation better.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In spare time, I often try to pry open old hardware that we received from customers. Most of the aren&#8217;t that hard, but some are more challenging. For example a Cisco MDS 9120 Multilayer FC switch. This one is totally different from the McData Sphereon 4500&#8217;s or EMC DS-24M2 and Brocades that I normally work &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.infrastructurematters.nl\/?p=140\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cisco MDS 9120 Password recovery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[26,29,27,28],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networking","category-storage","tag-cisco","tag-eerror","tag-fc","tag-switch"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5hbZj-2g","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infrastructurematters.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infrastructurematters.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infrastructurematters.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infrastructurematters.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infrastructurematters.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.infrastructurematters.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142,"href":"https:\/\/www.infrastructurematters.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infrastructurematters.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infrastructurematters.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infrastructurematters.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}