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The admin account is the system administrator or superuser account. If an administrator loses the password to this account, you can have a serious security issue. As a result, the procedure to recover the password for the admin account requires you to power cycle all fabric interconnects in a Cisco UCS instance.
When you recover the password for the admin account, you actually change the password for that account. You cannot retrieve the original password for that account.
You can reset the password for all other local acounts through Cisco UCS Manager. However, you must log into Cisco UCS Manager with an account that includes aaa or admin privileges.
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This procedure requires you to power down all fabric interconnects in a Cisco UCS instance. As a result, all data transmission in the instance is stopped until you restart the fabric interconnects. |
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Step 1 | UCS-A# show cluster state | Displays the operational state and leadership role for both fabric interconnects in a cluster. |
The following example displays the leadership role for both fabric interconnects in a cluster, where fabric interconnect A has the primary role and fabric interconnect A has the subordinate role:
UCS-A# show cluster state Cluster Id: 0x4432f72a371511de-0xb97c000de1b1ada4 A: UP, PRIMARY B: UP, SUBORDINATE HA READY
Physically connect the console port on the fabric interconnect to a computer terminal or console server
Obtain the following information:
Physically connect a console port on one of the fabric interconnects to a computer terminal or console server
Obtain the following information: