Brocade Secure Fabric OS Administrator's Guide - Supporting Fabric OS v3.2.0, v4.4.0, v5.0.1, v5.1.0, 5.2.0, and 5.3.0 (53-1000244-02, June 2007)

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For information about reenabling secure mode, see “Enabling Secure Mode” on page 34.
To disable secure mode
1. From a sectelnet, SSH, or serial session, log in to the primary FCS switch as admin.
2. Type secModeDisable.
3. Type the password when prompted.
4. Type y to confirm that secure mode should be disabled.
primaryfcs:admin> secmodedisable
Warning!!!
About to disable security.
ARE YOU SURE (yes, y, no, n): [no] y
Committing configuration...done.
Removing Active FMPS...
done
Removing Defined FMPS...
done
Disconnecting current session.
Secure mode is disabled, all current login sessions are terminated, and the passwords are
modified as follows:
- On the switches that were FCS switches, the user, admin, factory, and root passwords
remain the same as in secure mode.
- On the switches that were non-FCS switches, the root, factory, and admin passwords
become the same as the non-FCS admin password.
Deactivating the Secure Fabric OS License on Each Switch
Deactivating the Secure Fabric OS license is not required to disable Secure Fabric OS functionality.
NOTE
If the user installs and activates a feature license and then removes the license, the feature is not
disabled until the next time system is rebooted or a switch enable or disable is performed.
To deactivate the software license
1. Open a CLI connection (serial or telnet) to the switch.
2. Type the licenseShow command to display the Secure Fabric OS license key.
Copy the license key from the licenseShow output directly into the CLI for the next step.
3. Type licenseRemove “license_key”:
switch:admin> licenseremove “1A1AaAaaaAAAA1a”
removing license-key “1A1AaAaaaAAAA1a”
Committing configuration...done.
For license to take effect, Please reboot switch now....
“license_key” is the license key and is case sensitive.
4. Repeat for each switch in the fabric.