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While conducting an emergency password change on my production SNS-3415 ACS 5.8.0.32 servers following an IT employee termination, I found myself having to recover the CLI password for my administrative accounts.
Using a bootable USB drive made from ...
I use Layer 3 switches to aggregate my user, datacenter and other local traffic within buildings.These devices provides routing and security between those networks.Rather than interconnect each distribution switch to every other distribution switch, ...
We had originally decided to deploy 4 3702i access points into a new "multi-purpose room". The solution worked well in testing with a dozen or so users. Today, I was surprised to find that they had fit over well over 200 managers and execs into this ...
Sure, except that the whole reason I was trying to recover the CLI password is that I didn't have it and thus couldn't get to the CLI to run the patch which fixes the CLI password recovery tool.
It's over now, we rebuilt the ACS hosts then synced th...
I wanted to follow-up on this so the next person is aware;When attempting to use the password recovery tool on 5.8.0.32.2, the recovery tool not only fails to reset the password, it also strips the ACS host of password policy. We discovered this in r...
This worked in the lab, thank you.
Is there any way to apply this patch from the GUI?
I can't get to the production CLI because I can't recover the password; which is where this whole problem started.
5.8.0.32I've tried using the ACS 5.8.0.32 ISO and the Recovery.iso that TAC provided.I have the same result on all three SNS-3415s (two production, one lab).
The menus all work, it displays the appropriate administrator accounts, it prompts for a ne...
