Password Recovery Procedure for Catalyst 4500/4000

Password Recovery Procedure for Catalyst 4500/4000 Supervisor Engine II+/II+TS/II+10GE/III/IV/V/V 10GE Module and Catalyst 4900 Switches that Run Cisco IOS Software - Cisco Systems

This document describes how to recover a lost or unknown password on a Catalyst 4500/4000 switch with a Supervisor Engine II-Plus (WS-X4013+), Supervisor Engine II-Plus-TS (WS-X4013+TS), Supervisor Engine II-Plus-10GE (WS-X4013+10GE), Supervisor Engine III (WS-X4014), Supervisor Engine IV (WS-X4515), Supervisor Engine V (WS-X4516), Supervisor Engine V-10GE (WS-X4516-10GE) module, Cisco Catalyst 4948, Cisco Catalyst 4948 10GE, and Cisco Catalyst 4900M switches.

Note: In Catalyst 4500/4000 Series Switches, Supervisor Engines II+, II+10GE, II+TS, III, IV, V, and V-10GE support only Cisco IOS® Software and Supervisor Engines I and II support only the Catalyst OS Software. In order to recover the password on the Supervisor Engines I or II, refer to Password Recovery Procedure for the Catalyst 1200, 1400, 2901, 2902, 2926T/F, 2926GS/L, 2948G, 2980G, 4000, 5000, 5500, 6000, 6500 Running CatOS.