Reset CLI Admin password and PMAdmin Password in PCP

[Joseph E Spoon]

I need to reset the CLI admin password and PMAdmin password in PCP 10.6.  I have root access to the server.

[Anthony Gerbic · Accepted solution]

Joseph,

The process is the same for all revs of PCP.

To reset the CLI Admin (IOS like admin interface) password do the following:

• Login as root to Linux CLI
• Execute the following commands:

#su admin
#conf t
#username admin password plain <NEWPASSWORD>  role admin email <EMAILID>
#exit

To unlock the pmadmin or globaladmin passwords a patch for a script is required so contact TAC to get them to provide the patch and unlock it for you.  You should avoid using the old CUPM pmadmin account as we stopped using this and replaced it with the globaladmin account when PCP was first released.

Don't lose the root password as it is difficult and time consuming to recover, as it should be from a security standpoint. 

[Joseph E Spoon]

Thanks for the response.  That worked!

Thanks