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DWS-1008 User’s Manual
D-Link Systems, Inc.
Appendix A - Troubleshooting
Recovering the System Password
You can recover the system enable password if you have lost or forgotten it.
Caution: Recovering the system password will delete your conguration les.
You set the switch password using the set enablepass command. If you forget the password,
use one of the following procedures.
1. Reboot the switch, and interrupt the switch boot process. Power the switch off and
on again to cause the switch to reboot.
2. When you see descending numbers on the console, press q followed by Enter to
abort booting.
3. Type the following command at the boot> prompt:
boot> boot OPT+=default
If you do not type the command before the reset cycle is complete, the switch returns to the
state it was in before you restarted it.
Once you have entered the command, the switch returns to its initial uncongured state.
Caution: Use an enable password that you will remember. If you lose the password, the
only way to restore it causes the system to return to its default settings and wipes out the
conguration.
Conguring and Managing the System Log
System logs provide information about system events that you can use to monitor and
troubleshoot MSS. Event messages for the switch and its attached access points can be
stored or sent to the following destinations:
• Stored in a local buffer on the switch
• Displayed on the console port
• Displayed in an active Telnet session
• Sent to one or more syslog servers, as specied in RFC 3164
The system log is a le in which the newest record replaces the oldest. These entries are
preserved in nonvolatile memory through system reboots.