Good morning,
I have very little Cisco experience, just joined a new organization, and was told to learn about the Cisco C9500-24/48Y4C switches. The switches were configured before but the person left and we lost everything. I know the default values for the Management Port are supposed to be 192.168.1.1, webui, and cisco. When I connected a computer (Obtain IP address automatically) to the C9500 Management Port, the computer got served with the IP address of 169.254.176.92/16. I tried to ping the Management Port at 169.254.1.1 and 169.254.176.1 but neither one work. I then manually assigned 192.168.1.66/16 to the computer but it also fails to ping the 192.168.1.1 of the switch Management Port.
I then followed some procedure to recover enable password and factory reset the switch with:
Switch# factory-reset all
The switch came back in ROMmon mode and I found that I'm supposed to "perform a reset in ROMmon mode to automatically set the environment variables." I did:
rommon1> reset
Is that how to automatically reset all environment variables? How do I verify that all environment variables have been reset? And the switch is still in ROMmon mode. I found that that I'm also supposed to "add the Cisco IOS image either through an USB or TFTP."
Is IOSXE-17.14.1 the Cisco IOS image I need? and please help me with step by step procedure how to do it using both USB and TFTP for I'm a very new to Cisco. Also, what is the default secret for enable? Thank you so much for all your help.
Huy Pham
