ASA 5512x Hardware Reset?

[ny_wolfie]

Trying to setup a new ASA 5512 and like a dumbass I've somehow locked myself out.

Anyone know how to do a hardware reset?

[Marvin Rhoads · Accepted solution]

Via power cycling. If you haven't done a "write mem" you'll be back where you started.

Otherwise see this procedure for password recovery - it should be good even for the newer hardware such as the 5512x.

[ny_wolfie]

Thanks for the quick response, but unfortunately after following the procedure it returns "Invalid password" at step 11.

[Marvin Rhoads]

Hmm. Just to confirm - you reloaded as specified in step 9 and after reload were presented with the default system prompt of:

hostname>

...? That should indicate you are now running with a default configuration.

I just doublechecked and ASA 8.6 (which the X series runs) still has a default blank enable password. Reference.

[ny_wolfie]

Not sure what I was doing wrong the first time, but as you suggested I retried the procedure and it worked first time.

Thanks

[Marvin Rhoads]

Phew. Glad I wasn't totally off base. Thanks for the rating!