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Cisco MDS 9000 Family CLI Configuration Guide
OL-16184-01, Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 3.x
Chapter 5 Initial Configuration
Initial Setup Routine
There is no default password so you must explicitly configure a strong password. If a password is trivial
(short, easy-to-decipher), your password configuration is rejected. Be sure to configure a strong
password (see the ). If you configure and subsequently forget this new password, you have the option to
recover this password (see the
“Recovering the Administrator Password” section on page 39-19
).
Note
The Cisco Fabric Switch for IBM BladeCenter does not use admin as the default user. Rather, the default
user is USERID because there is no console access to the switch. You cannot delete the user USERID
on this switch. The password for this default user is PASSW0RD, where the “0” is a zero. You can change
this password; however, a write erase operation restores the default password. There is no initial setup
menu.
Also note that you should not bring up the loader> prompt; the only way to fix this condition is to RMA
the switch.
The following commands are not allowed on the Cisco Fabric Switch for IBM BladeCenter:
write erase
boot
and
init system
; nor can you boot variables manually.
Note
If you issue a
write erase
command and reload the switch, you must reconfigure the default user (admin)
password using the setup procedure.
Setup Options
The setup scenario differs based on the subnet to which you are adding the new switch. You must
configure a Cisco MDS 9000 Family switch with an IP address to enable management connections from
outside of the switch.
Note
Some concepts such as out-of-band management and in-band management are briefly explained here.
These concepts are explained in more detail in subsequent chapters.
•
Out-of-band management—This feature provides a connection to the network through a supervisor
module front panel Ethernet port (see
Figure 5-1
).
•
In-band management—This feature provides IP over Fibre Channel (IPFC) to manage the switches.
The in-band management feature is transparent to the network management system (NMS). Instead
of conventional Ethernet physical media, switches in the Cisco MDS 9000 Family use IPFC as the
transport mechanism (see
Figure 5-1
and
Chapter 43, “Configuring IP Services”
).
