User diagnostic crash via Front Panel Security (FPS)
button
Allows the switch’s front panel
Clear
button to manually initiate a diagnostic reset. In the case of an application
hang, this feature allows you to perform reliable diagnostics by debugging via the front panel
Clear
button.
Diagnostic reset is controlled via Front Panel Security (FPS) options.
Front panel security password-clear
From the configure context:
Syntax
[no] front-panel-security password-clear
<RESET-ON-CLEAR>
| factory-reset |
password-recovery | diagnostic-reset
<CLEAR-BUTTON | SERIAL-CONSOLE>
Description
Enable the ability to clear the password(s) and/or configuration via the front panel buttons.
[no] disables the password clear option.
Parameters
• If
password-clear
is disabled, the password(s) cannot be reset using the clear button on the front panel of
the device.
• If
factory-reset
is disabled, the configuration/password(s) can not be reset using the clear and reset
button combination at boot time.
• When
password-recovery
is enabled (and the front panel buttons disabled), a lost password can be
recovered by contacting customer support.
• When
password-recovery
is disabled, there is no way to access a device after losing a password with the
front panel buttons disabled.
• If
diagnostic-reset
is disabled, the user cannot perform a diagnostic switch reset on those rare events
where the switch becomes unresponsive to user input because of unknown reason(s).
• If
diagnostic-reset
is enabled, the user can perform a diagnostic hard reset which will capture valuable
diagnostic data and reset the switch.
Options
factory-reset
Enable/Disable factory-reset ability.
password-clear
Enable/Disable password clear.
password-recovery
Enable/Disable password recovery.
diagnostic-reset
Enable/Disable diagnostic reset.
Front-panel-security diagnostic-reset
From the configure context:
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