Cisco Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Information Guide

This document describes the steps to recover CLI root (shell) user password for Prime
Infastructure application installed in Virtual Appliances (VM).

Cisco recommends that you have knowledge of Usage and Access to the VMware vSphere client,
vSphere inventory, Datastores and Objects functions.

Caution: Steps in this document require application shutdown for completion. Therefore
suggested to perform this activity during maintenance window.

The information in this document is based on these software versions:

Prime Infrastructure 2.2.x,3.0.x, 3.1.x versions installed in VM.

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Any one of the iso image copy from this list:

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    CentOS-5.10-x86_64-bin-DVD-1of2.iso
     CentOS-5.11-x86_64-bin-DVD-1of2.iso
     CentOS-6.6-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso

The information in this document was created from the devices in a specific lab environment. All of
the devices used in this document started with a cleared (default) configuration. If your network is
live, make sure that you understand the potential impact of any command.

Step 1. Launch your VMware vSphere Client and connect to the ESXi host or vCenter server.

Step 2. Follow these steps to upload the downloaded .iso image from the above list to the data
store on the Open Virtual Appliance (OVA) machine: