Cisco 2050 Series Cache Engine

Document ID: 15067

PDF Downloads Password Recovery Procedure for the Cisco Cache Engine 2050

Cisco has announced the end of life for the Cisco Cisco Cache Engine 2050. For more information, please see the End-of-life Bulletin.

Introduction

This document describes how to recover a password on the Cisco Cache Engine 2050.

Note: Your configuration is lost after performing this password recovery. It is not possible to keep your configuration when recovering a lost administrative password.

Before You Begin

Conventions

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Prerequisites

There are no specific prerequisites for this document.

Step-by-Step Procedure

Perform the steps below to recover the password on the Cache Engine 2050.

1. Establish a console connection to the Cache Engine, and reload the device. Or, type reboot at the command line. While the Cache Engine is rebooting, press any key to interrupt the low level configuration countdown.

2. Enter the basic configuration menu. Use the keys below to perform additional actions.

   • a dash (-) to go to the previous field

   • the Enter key to go to the next field

3. Press Enter five times until the Replace admin pw field is displayed.

4. Enter the new administrative password and press Enter. The next field is Repeat admin pw.

5. Enter the same password and press Enter.

6. At the prompt Is this basic configuration acceptable?, type y for yes.

Sample Output

The sample output shown here is the result of the password recovery procedure on a Cache Engine 2050.

!--- The Cache Engine has just been rebooted.

Cisco Cache Engine hard disk bootstrap 
Version: 1.0 
Copyright (c) 1997 Cisco Systems, Inc. 
Creation date: Sep 10 1997, 16:51:59 


Loading system image...1209816 + 40080 + 74600836 
nTarget Name: vxTarget 
User: target 
Attaching network interface lo0... done. 
NFS client support not included. 
Loading symbol table from /ata0/vxWorks.sym ...done 

System restarted at 
GMT: FRI JUL 07 17:37:44 2000 

Basic configuration file is complete 
h 
Press any key to OVERRIDE basic low-level configuration...

!--- From the moment this line appears, you have ten 
!--- seconds to press any key. 

 5 
override selected... 


Use "-" to step back, to accept a non-blank value as given. 
You must accept or provide values for all configuration prompts. 

      Config Version [                     1]: 
          IP Address [          172.17.241.7]: 
          IP Netmask [         255.255.255.0]: 
     Default Gateway [          172.17.241.1]: 
    Wccp Home Router [         172.17.241.32]: 
    Replace admin pw [                      ]: cisco 
     Repeat admin pw [                      ]: cisco 
          Cache Name [               megaton]: 
          Group Name [                 cisco]: 
       GMT Date/Time [   2000/07/07 17:38:27]: 
     Config Register [            0x10000001]: 

Is this basic configuration acceptable ? (n,y) [n]: y

Basic low-level configuration accepted. 
Attaching network interface fei0... done. 
Media bandwidth: 10 Mb/s half-duplex 

-> There are 15 partitions. 
Revision string is /ata0/1_7_5.dir 
Found a valid fargo.cfg. This must be a good version 
Starting message server. 
Waiting for message server. 
Started server on port 1024 
Message server started. 
Syslog host not configured. 
Started server on port 8001 
Started Stat Collector. 
DNS not configured. 
Static routes not configured 
Initializing Url Filtering 
Initialized Url Filtering - filtering disabled 
Starting WCCP on 172.17.241.32 
Started server on port 80 
Added 2000 threads to ready queue 

Browse to 172.17.241.7:8001 to manage this machine. 
Browse to 172.17.241.7:8001 to manage this machine. 
Browse to 172.17.241.7:8001 to manage this machine. 
Icp Initialized

Related Information

• Password Recovery Procedures
• Cisco Cache Engine 2050 End of Life Bulletin - No. 928
• Cisco 2050 Series Cache Engine Product Support Pages
• Content Networking Software Center (registered customers only)
• Content Networking Devices Hardware Support
• Technical Support - Cisco Systems