How to recover access to a Brocade SAN switch after password dementia.

There are already too much blog posts around ? Most of them just talk about going onsite - using serial cable or "back door" user which are mostly disabled.

When the default password 'fibranne' for the root user did not help you, but you have still access to another switch in the fabric, this ist the way to push the password database from one switch you can access to the one you locked yourself out.

distribute -p PWD -d [#SwitchID]

#SwitchID is the decimal number in the first row in fabricshow output.

After this you can logon with the same password you know from switch A.

This is also a fine way to prevent to setup every password for admin, user, factory etc. by hand. Just setup one switch in the fabric properly and "push" the settings to each - or to configure fresh passwords FAST in a environment.

Get Fibrechannel WWPNs and alot other HW Info from Fujitsu iRMC4 per Powershell

Pssst .. wanna get ALL the cool hardware info you see on an iRMC4 WebGui in a Powershell object ?
If you need even the fibrechannel stuff, you won't get it by REST,CIM or WSMAN - i deep-dived some days into all kind of documentations, wasted alot of time in enumerating and finally gave up, the only way seems to be get it from the WebGui - shame on Fujitsu - DELL do it better, see my next post.

This quick-n-dirty shit worked fine for me for PRIMERGY RX2540 M1, PRIMERGY RX2540 M2, PRIMERGY RX4770 M2 and PRIMERGY RX300 S8 - nice for report all MAC, WWPNs, Serials, Firmware etc ... if you use it let me know.

function Get-iRMC_HWInfo($irmcname,$irmcuser,$irmcpw)
{
    $rsacred=New-Object System.Management.Automation.PsCredential($irmcuser,$(ConvertTo-SecureString -String $irmcpw -AsPlainText -force)) 
    $body = @{APPLY = 99;P99='Login'}
    $irmcwebreq=Invoke-WebRequest "http://$irmcname/login" -SessionVariable irmcsession -Credential $rsacred -Method Post -Body $body
    $hwinfo=$($irmcwebreq.AllElements|?{$_.TagName -eq 'TR'}|?{$_.innerText -match '^System Type|^Serial|^System GUID|^System Name|^System\ O/S'}).innerText    
    $networkinventorylink=$($irmcwebreq.Links|?{$_.innerHTML -eq 'Network Inventory'}).href
    $irmcwebreq2=Invoke-WebRequest "http://$irmcname/$networkinventorylink" -WebSession $irmcsession 
    $tabellen=$irmcwebreq2.ParsedHtml.getElementsByTagName("TABLE")
    $nictabelle=$tabellen|?{$_.summary -match 'Ethernet'}
    $fctabelle=$tabellen|?{$_.summary -match 'Fibre'}
    $nicports=@()
    foreach($datarow in $nictabelle.rows){
        if($datarow.cells[0].tagName -eq "TD"){
            $nicports+=@{Enabled=$datarow.cells[0].innerHTML -match 'ok.gif';
                SlotID=$datarow.cells[1].innerText;
                FunctionID=$datarow.cells[2].innerText;
                PortID=$datarow.cells[3].innerText;
                Firmware=$datarow.cells[5].innerText;
                OpROM=$datarow.cells[6].innerText;
                Interface=$datarow.cells[7].innerText;
                VenID=$datarow.cells[9].innerText;
                DevID=$datarow.cells[10].innerText;
                SubVenID=$datarow.cells[11].innerText;
                SubDevID=$datarow.cells[12].innerText;
                MAC=$datarow.cells[14].innerText
            }
        }
    }

    $fcports=@()
    foreach($datarow in $fctabelle.rows){
        if($datarow.cells[0].tagName -eq "TD"){
            $fcports+=@{Enabled=$datarow.cells[0].innerHTML -match 'ok.gif';
                SlotID=$datarow.cells[1].innerText;
                FunctionID=$datarow.cells[2].innerText;
                PortID=$datarow.cells[3].innerText;
                Firmware=$datarow.cells[5].innerText;
                OpROM=$datarow.cells[6].innerText;
                Interface=$datarow.cells[7].innerText;
                VenID=$datarow.cells[9].innerText;
                DevID=$datarow.cells[10].innerText;
                SubVenID=$datarow.cells[11].innerText;
                SubDevID=$datarow.cells[12].innerText;
                WWNN=$datarow.cells[14].innerText;
                WWPN=$datarow.cells[15].innerText}
            }
        }
    return [pscustomobject]@{
        SysType=$hwinfo[0].Split(':')[1];
        SysSerial=$hwinfo[1].Split(':')[1];
        SysGUID=$hwinfo[2].Split(':')[1];
        SysName=$hwinfo[3].Split(':')[1];
        SysOS=$hwinfo[4].Split(':')[1];
        nicports=$nicports;
        fcports=$fcports
 }

}

Yeah thats all folks - ugly quick-n-dirty.