18 Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide
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Password modification
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4. From a management station, open a Telnet connection using the IP address of the switch to
which you want to connect.
The login prompt is displayed when the Telnet connection finds the switch in the network.
5. Enter the account ID at the login prompt.
See “Password modification” on page 18 for instructions on how to log in for the first time.
6. Enter the password.
If you have not changed the system passwords from the default, you are prompted to change
them. Enter the new system passwords, or press Ctrl+C to skip the password prompts. For
more information on system passwords, refer to “Default account passwords” on page 19.
7. Verify the login was successful.
The prompt displays the switch name and user ID to which you are connected.
login: admin
password: xxxxxxx

Getting help on a command

You can display a list of all command help topics for a given login level. For example, if you are
logged in as user and enter the help command, a list of all user-level commands that can be
executed is displayed. The same rule applies to the admin, securityAdmin, and the switchAdmin
roles.
1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account assigned to the admin role.
2. Enter the help [|more] command with no specific command and all commands will be
displayed.
The|more argument displays the commands one page at a time.
Or you can enter help <command> |more, where command is the name of the command for
which you need specific information.
The following commands provide help files for the indicated specific topics:

Password modification

The switch automatically prompts you to change the default account passwords after logging in for
the first time. If you do not change the passwords, the switch prompts you after each subsequent
login until all the default passwords have been changed.
diagHelp Diagnostic help information
ficonHelp FICON help information
fwHelp Fabric Watch help information
iscsiHelp iSCSI help information
licenseHelp License help information
perfHelp Performance Monitoring help information
routeHelp Routing help information
trackChangesHelp Track Changes help information
zoneHelp Zoning help information