Lost the Password ?
- Turn off the Power to your EQL.
- Connect the console cable and start Putty on your PC (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html)
- Turn on the power by turning on all the power supplies.
- While the member is restarting, press Ctrl/p when the following message appears on the console:
Press Ctrl/p to enter setup mode.
This will halt the boot process and allow you to enter commands to the boot monitor.
- At the CFE> prompt, enter the following commands, which are case-sensitive and must be typed exactly as shown:
CFE> setenv RESETPASSWORD 1 (enter)
CFE> reload (enter)
- When the member restarts, the PeerStorage login prompt appears. After a short pause, the following message should appear:
WARNING:Password recovery mode… Temporarily resetting grpadmin password.
- If you get the previous message, log in the group using the grpadmin account and its factory-set password, grpadmin:
Login: grpadmin
Password: grpadmin
- At this point, you are logged in to the group with read-write permission and can perform any group administration task. At this point, you should set the grpadmin account password to a known value. Use the procedure described in the Modifying Accounts section in the Group Administration manual or use the following command:
account select grpadmin passwd Enter New Password: xxxxxxx Retype password: xxxxxxx
If it dosen’t work try to connect you serial cabel to the other controller module.
Still dosen’t work give Dell a call and the can help you using the recoverpassword account.
Good Luck
thank you, this works for me.
hi
setenv resetpassword 1 command is not recognized. it answers command status = 0. is there any other way to reset pass???
This one works for me, Dell Equallogic PS6010Vx
Just to note you do not need to powercycle the san to do a password reset , please check here
http://mikefrobbins.com/2011/06/16/equallogic-ps-series-san-password-recovery/
Many thanks, it works on EQL PS40000E
Thanks !
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very good!!!!