I appreciate this is not in the networking section, but this is an 'enterprise' level piece of kit, and it's a work related Q.
Yesterday I was migrating a 4507 from one comms room to a different company's main comms room. I have knowledge up to CCNA on cisco stuff, so this was a bit out of my comfort zone, but I enjoyed the challenge.
Anyway, when I did a erase start and reload, firstly the console port I was on went into standby recover mode, with two options 'logout' or 'exit' - both of which were useless.
I had to then switch to the other console port - there were two ports on the front, and the other came live. The downside, my startup config wasnt erased, so I was back to my original problem.
When I tried to delete VLAN.dat from priv mode, I got the error 'you do not have permission to complete this action' or something very similar.
Now, the downside was, there was no internet connectivity in this building whatsoever, so after much head scratching, I decided to do a default interface on everything and 'no' everything else in the config. This worked fine, as did deleting the VLANs manually one by one.
When I looked today on cisco's website on how I should have achieved this, the help is not exactly clear:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/swi...g/command/reference/ch2a_ins.html#wpxref74065
So, how should I have erased the VLAN.dat file and the startup config without doing it the long winded way, and without erasing the IOS by accident!
This is more for my personal knowledge than to fix the problem... so any help appreciated
Thanks
Yesterday I was migrating a 4507 from one comms room to a different company's main comms room. I have knowledge up to CCNA on cisco stuff, so this was a bit out of my comfort zone, but I enjoyed the challenge.
Anyway, when I did a erase start and reload, firstly the console port I was on went into standby recover mode, with two options 'logout' or 'exit' - both of which were useless.
I had to then switch to the other console port - there were two ports on the front, and the other came live. The downside, my startup config wasnt erased, so I was back to my original problem.
When I tried to delete VLAN.dat from priv mode, I got the error 'you do not have permission to complete this action' or something very similar.
Now, the downside was, there was no internet connectivity in this building whatsoever, so after much head scratching, I decided to do a default interface on everything and 'no' everything else in the config. This worked fine, as did deleting the VLANs manually one by one.
When I looked today on cisco's website on how I should have achieved this, the help is not exactly clear:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/swi...g/command/reference/ch2a_ins.html#wpxref74065
So, how should I have erased the VLAN.dat file and the startup config without doing it the long winded way, and without erasing the IOS by accident!
This is more for my personal knowledge than to fix the problem... so any help appreciated
Thanks
