Cisco Nexus Fabric Manager Web UI Password Recovery

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First Published: April 20, 2016

Last Updated: April 27, 2016


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Cisco Nexus Fabric Manager

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About Cisco Nexus Fabric Manager Web UI Password Recovery

If authentication on the Cisco Nexus Fabric Manager web user interface fails due to a lost password, the password reset mechanism needs to be performed. Log into the Cisco Nexus Fabric Manager command line shell, gain root shell access, and enter the shell commands in the following procedure.

Recovering the Cisco Nexus Fabric Manager Web UI Password

Procedure
    Step 1   Log in as root into the Cisco Nexus Fabric Manager shell using either SSH or the VM console.
    Step 2   Stop the Cisco Nexus Fabric Manager service. 
    # service esm stop
    Step 3   Create a Cisco Nexus Fabric Manager users firstboot file with the desired password. 
    # echo '{"name":"admin","encodedPassword":"admin123","roleReferences":
[{"href":"admin"}]}' > /opt/esm/server/conf/esm-users.firstboot
    Note   

    admin123 is the desired password.

    Step 4   Delete existing credentials from the database. 
    # psql -U APP db
db=> delete from authorities where username='admin';
db=> delete from users where username='admin';
db=> \q
    Step 5   Start the Cisco Nexus Fabric Manager service. 
    # service esm start

    Step 6   Verify that the new password takes effect by opening a new browser connection to the Cisco Nexus Fabric Manager UI and logging in.

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