Consideration for Accessing Factory Default Device

  • To make the same first time access behavior from CLI, WEB or SSH, the console authentication and web authentication is enabled in device and the first time access (shipped from the factory) is possible with default local username super with password sp-admin.
  • For the first time, users are authenticated using super/sp-admin credentials, which also ensures the password to be modified before providing the ICX device prompt for further operation.
  • Necessary device configurations used for authentication are enabled by default in the device: 
    aaa authentication web-server default local
aaa authentication login default local
no telnet server
username super password .....   
(default local user super with password sp-admin)
  • Once the user gets access to the box after modifying the password, the above configurations can be seen in running configuration. User is allowed to change any configurations in the box.
  • Once password is modified for username "super" it is treated as any other local user in the device.
  • Conditions with the below configurations are not enabled:
    • If the device has the startup configuration file in the flash during boot up.
    • If the FIPS mode is enabled in the device during boot up.
  • Conditions with the below configurations are removed automatically after device boots up:
    • The above configurations will removed automatically in any of the below scenarios before the device is accessed from CLI, SSH or WEB.
    • If the device connects to SZ.
    • if the configuration is pushed to the device via DHCP auto provisioning, before it's first time access from CLI, WEB or SSH.
Parent topic: Configuration Fundamentals