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26 | Powering Up and Configuring Policy Manager Hardware Dell Networking W-ClearPass Policy Manager 6.3 |User Guide
Resetting the Passwords to Factory Default
To reset Administrator passwords in Policy Manager to factory defaults, you can login to the CLI as the apprecovery
user. The password to log in as the apprecovery user is dynamically generated.
Perform the following steps to generate the recovery password:
1. Connect to the Policy Manager appliance using the front serial port (using any terminal program). See "Resetting
the Passwords to Factory Default" on page 26 for details.
2. Reboot the system and execute the restart command.
3. After the system restarts, the following prompt is displayed for ten seconds:
Generate support keys? [y/n]:
Enter y at the prompt. The system prompts you with the following choices:
Please select a support key generation option.
1) Generate password recovery key
2) Generate a support key
3) Generate password recovery and support keys
Enter the option or press any key to quit.
4. To generate the recovery key, select option 1.
5. To generate a support key and a recovery key and support, select option 3.
6. After the password recovery key is generated, email the key to Dell technical support. A unique password will be
generated from the recovery key and emailed back to you.
7. Enter the following command at the command prompt:
[apprecovery] app reset-passwd
*******************************************************
* WARNING: This command will reset the system account *
* passwords to factory default values *
*******************************************************
Are you sure you want to continue? [y/n]: y
INFO - Password changed on local node
INFO - System account passwords have been reset to factory default values
Generating a Support Key for Technical Support
To troubleshoot certain critical system level errors, Dell technical support might need to log into a support shell.
Perform the following steps to generate a dynamic support password:
1. Log into the Command Line Interface (CLI) and enter the following command:
system gen-support-key
See "gen-support-key" on page 439 for details.
2. Connect to the Policy Manager appliance using the front serial port (using any terminal program). See "Server Port
Configuration" on page 23 for details.
3. Reboot the system using the restart command.
4. When the system restarts, the following prompt appears for 10 seconds:
Generate support keys? [y/n]:
Enter y at the prompt. The system prompts with the following choices:
Please select a support key generation option.