[cisco-voip] Check and verify security password on a CUCM 7.1

Anthony Kouloglou akoul at dataways.gr
Wed Oct 12 03:19:17 EDT 2011


Hi Wes, thanks for the update.
So you suggest to raise a TAC before i do the procedure of the password 
reset?

Best Regards,
Anthony

On 11-Oct-11 19:04, Wes Sisk wrote:
> Be careful when changing the password.  There are a few known side 
> effects that are "problematic":
>
> 9 CSCth87452 DB service is down, after changing the security password
> 2 CSCtn79868 pwrecovery tool resetting only sftpuser password
>
> Regards,
> Wes
>
> On Oct 11, 2011, at 4:14 AM, Anthony Kouloglou wrote:
>
> Hi Anthony,
> you are right about the procedure.
> I think it would work. Obviously there would be licensing problems if 
> the VM starts but that's not our case.
>
> Anyway, i am going to change the security password via cli (the 
> procedure looks smooth and easy!) and then get a backup.
> In that way, i am going to be sure that the backup would work if ever 
> needed :-)
> Thanks for your time
>
> Regards
> Anthony
>
> On 11-Oct-11 07:39, Anthony Holloway wrote:
>> Since no one has responded to this, I'll make a small suggestion that 
>> may work for some people.
>>
>> Build a new sub in vmware, or on spare hardware, and try to add it to 
>> the cluster.  The process should ask you for the cluster security 
>> password, and you can guess away at it with no harm to your 
>> production system.
>>
>> I have never tried this, so use at your own risk.  If nothing else, 
>> this was a free bump, and no some one smarter than I can reply.  =)
>>
>> -Anthony
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Anthony Kouloglou <akoul at dataways.gr 
>> <mailto:akoul at dataways.gr>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi all,
>>     it there a way to verify a given security password on a server?
>>     I have a cluster which was installed by someone else.
>>     I am using the DRS and have a valid backup but as far as i know,
>>     if i ever wanted to restore the config on a new server, the
>>     procedure will ask for the old security password.
>>     The new IT gave me the OS password but not the security password.
>>     I cannot risk to start the recovery procedure without being sure
>>     about it.
>>     Also, i wouldn't like to change it through the procedure that
>>     cisco gives if it is not necessary.
>>
>>     Thanks
>>     Anthony
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