Soldato
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Last week I was given an APC AP9617 network management card. It was believed to be working and when I plugged it in my APC UPS at home and it grabbed an IP address from my DHCP server. I was expecting it to have a static IP address already assigned so that was a nice surprise.
Onto the problem. How the hell do you reset the passwords on these things? I can login using device/apc but that's a limited view only account. I know when they're new out of the box the default credentials are apc/apc but they don't work when I try over HTTP or telnet.
I found some articles on the APC website saying that to do a factory reset you push the reset button, release then push it again when the status LED flashes. I did that, can can see that the card rebooted but still I can't login. I also found another article that said you must connect using a serial cable and that apc/apc only works for a minute or two. Slight snag is that this network management card doesn't have a serial port, just an ethernet.
The UPS itself does have a serial port (RJ45 I believe but I don't ever remember configuring anything network related on a network management card via the UPS itself, it was always done by the web/telnet interface on the card.
Any ideas? I've tried all sorts of combinations of pressing the reset button, waiting, hold it down for various lengths of time. I can see that the card reboots as it stops responding to pings but when it comes back up it still won't accept apc/apc.
Onto the problem. How the hell do you reset the passwords on these things? I can login using device/apc but that's a limited view only account. I know when they're new out of the box the default credentials are apc/apc but they don't work when I try over HTTP or telnet.
I found some articles on the APC website saying that to do a factory reset you push the reset button, release then push it again when the status LED flashes. I did that, can can see that the card rebooted but still I can't login. I also found another article that said you must connect using a serial cable and that apc/apc only works for a minute or two. Slight snag is that this network management card doesn't have a serial port, just an ethernet.
The UPS itself does have a serial port (RJ45 I believe but I don't ever remember configuring anything network related on a network management card via the UPS itself, it was always done by the web/telnet interface on the card.
Any ideas? I've tried all sorts of combinations of pressing the reset button, waiting, hold it down for various lengths of time. I can see that the card reboots as it stops responding to pings but when it comes back up it still won't accept apc/apc.