Cisco 3560-G Username/password recovery

[Neilbloyce17]

Evening all,

whilst configuring a 3560-G i was interupted whilst setting a username and password, unfortantly when i turned back around I was kicked out. it is now asking for a username even though i havent set one fully. i was vty into the device and am unable console in at the moment is there anything I can do to get past this except get physical access and reboot the device. I havent saved the config at any point so if I reset i assume the username/password mistake wouldnt exist any more.  Any help is greatly appriecated.

Cheers

Neil,

[Leo Laohoo]

I havent saved the config at any point so if I reset i assume the username/password mistake wouldnt exist any more. 

Reboot the switch is one option.   You can have physical access to the appliance or you can use SNMP to remotely reboot the appliance.  For this method to work, the command "snmp-server system-shutdown" needs to be enabled.

Another option is to pull down or upload the config using SNMP.  This method is dependent on SNMP RW community string is disabled or not.