Factory reset Problem on SX1036 Switch

Hello@all

We here have a Mellanox SX1036 Switch, which was found on eBay. Becaurse of the fact that we have one of those switches in our infrastructure, we bought this device as a cold spare.

The problem now is, that we have no password for this device - and also the factory reset does not work. If we press and hold the reset button for 10, 15, 30 or even 60 secs, the switch boots up and there is still the old host name and password. We`ve also booted another image via console but also this has no effect on login or resetting this switch.

What can we do now? The seller also does not have the admin- password.

Here is our startup-log:

U-Boot 2009.01 SX_PPC_M460EX SX_3.2.0330-82 ppc (Dec 20 2012 - 17:53:54)

CPU: AMCC PowerPC 460EX Rev. B at 1000 MHz (PLB=166, OPB=83, EBC=83 MHz)

Security/Kasumi support

Bootstrap Option H - Boot ROM Location I2C (Addr 0x52)

Internal PCI arbiter disabled

32 kB I-Cache 32 kB D-Cache

Board: Mellanox PPC460EX Board

FDEF: No

I2C: ready

DRAM: 2 GB (ECC enabled, 333 MHz, CL3)

FLASH: 16 MB

NAND: 1024 MiB

PCI: Bus Dev VenId DevId Class Int

PCIE0: link is not up.

PCIE1: successfully set as root-complex

01 00 15b3 c738 0c06 00

Net: ppc_4xx_eth0, ppc_4xx_eth1

Reading image settings from EEPROM

Mellanox MLNX-OS

Default image: ‘PPC_M460EX 3.5.1006 2016-03-09 11:29:49 ppc’

Press Enter to boot this image, or ‘Ctrl B’ for boot menu

Booting default image in: 0

Booting location 2: ‘PPC_M460EX 3.5.1006 2016-03-09 11:29:49 ppc’

INIT: version 2.86 booting

Starting: PPC_M460EX 3.5.1006 2016-03-09 11:29:49 ppc

Starting udev: [ OK ]

Setting clock (utc): Sat Jan 1 01:11:08 UTC 2000 [ OK ]

Setting hostname localhost: [ OK ]

Checking filesystems

Checking all file systems.

[ OK ]

Remounting root filesystem in read-write mode: [ OK ]

Mounting local filesystems: [ OK ]

Running vpart script: [ OK ]

Applying file system skeletons: base_var base_config .

Enabling /etc/fstab swaps: [ OK ]

INIT: Entering runlevel: 3

Starting system services

Starting sx_low_level_if: Starting sx_low_level_if:

Loading i2c_mux_pca954x - Success

Loading sx_glue_if - Success

Loading watchdog - Success

Loading cpld_handler - Success

Loading mellaggra_mod - Success

Loading switchx - Success

[ OK ]

Starting openibd: IPoIB configuration for embedded system

Loading SX driver:[ OK ]

Loading HCA driver and Access Layer:[ OK ]

Setting up InfiniBand network interfaces:

Setting up service network . . .[ done ]

Reloading udev:

[ OK ]

Starting system logger: [ OK ]

Starting kernel logger: [ OK ]

Starting fips_post: [ OK ]

Running renaming interfaces

Renaming: MAC: 00:02:C9:64:17:F4 ifindex: 2 name: mgmt0

Renaming: MAC: 00:02:C9:64:17:F5 ifindex: 3 name: mgmt1

Checking for unexpected shutdown

Detected unexpected shutdown!

Probing for HRNG module

Starting rngd: [ OK ]

Running system image: PPC_M460EX 3.5.1006 2016-03-09 11:29:49 ppc

Applying initial configuration: Jan 01 01:12:18 INFO LOG: Initializing SX log with STDOUT as output file.

Starting internal_startup: [ OK ]

Starting tc_ingress_policy: mDNS policing rate=4000kbit burst=400k

Ingress policing enable on interface mgmt0 rate=9000kbit burst=900k

Ingress policing enable on interface mgmt1 rate=9000kbit burst=900k

[ OK ]

Starting clean_issnvram: Deleting issnvram.txt

[ OK ]

Starting intr_hndl: Starting :

Loading int handler module - Success

[ OK ]

Starting iss-nvram-mac: [ OK ]

Starting copy_rh_files_to_vtmp: [ OK ]

Starting secure_mode_check: [ OK ]

Starting sx_pra: Starting proxy arp management:

Loading proxy arp management module - Success

[ OK ]

Starting udevd: Reloading udev…

[ OK ]

Starting pm: [ OK ]

Starting oops_dump_reg: Starting kernel reg dump:

Loading kernel reg dump module - Success

[ OK ]

Starting lnpuppetvar.sh: [ OK ]

Starting mst: Starting MST (Mellanox Software Tools) driver set

Loading MST PCI module - Success

Loading MST PCI configuration module - Success

Create devices

[ OK ]

Mellanox MLNX-OS Switch Management

uwt-sw-6L02 login:

We hope that anyone is able to help us.

Thank you in advance

Aljoscha

Do you find a way to reset the password? I’m stuck at the same place with a SX6036… Thank!

I do find a way. use the xmladmin/xmladmin user/password to login and change the admin password.