Omniswitch 6850 stack password recovery

[roman_bradiak]

Dear all,

I have tried searching the forum, but havent found the answer I was looking for. I have a wide variety of Alcatel switches deployed at a client.
Its some 4324, 6224, 6850 and such. I have already ordered the Alcatel console cable, since I figured the regular one doesnt work.
We have been handed those without credentials and without the actual configuration details.

WE need to perform password recovery, without loosing any of the config, since its a quite fully booked hotel.

Some of those switches are in a stack, how is the password recovery process done, in such a scenario?

I am familiar with Cisco/Fortinet, but never done anything with Alcatel, is the process similiar? If someone could provide a guidance, I would appreciate it very much!

Thanks

Roman

[silvio]

very difficult with this three different very old products (end of support more than 15 years ago).
4324 is wifi controller (in my opinion the cisco adapter should work).

at the 6850 you have to interrupt the boot with c, change the flag within vxworks to 0x1000

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printenv
setenv bootflags 0x1000
saveenv

Than reboot again with @. Now the switch will boot into miniboot. There you can delete the usertable within the folder network.
Here the commands for it:

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ls
cd „network“
ls
rm „userTable3“ (or „userTable4“ you see with ls the newest one)
ls

Than reboot again, interrupt again und flag back to 0x0

The 6200-series is similar to old cisco (beside the adapter). I don't know a way for this an the oaw.
best regards
Silvio