Lucent ECS - Admin Rights

[scardn96]

We accidentally installed our good v.6 flash card into another ECS system and it seems to have over-written its translation onto that card. Now when we use it in our other ECS, we no longer have our admin rights to add and make changes. It seems like it the software from the "non-admin rights" ssystem is now on the switch that used to have admin rights.

We do not have support on either switch; they are pretty old...Is there anything i can do to get admin rights back onto this switch?

System: G3csiV1.1 Software Version: G36i.03.2.239.5

Thanks.

 

[scardn96]

So am i out of luck here? Have i lost all previuos rights? Any informaiton would be appreciated.

 

[lopes1211]

yes, you have lost everything if you over wrote your card.

-CL

 

[scardn96]

Thanks for the response…I can’t believe that the switch relies on the flash card to that point. What if the card goes bad etc…? It seems like something else could be done to rescue the system. I'd hate to toss it out to the dumpster (Along with the other one that does not have add/change rights). The system has craft, inads, and init logins. I can login through craft (no admin rights), inads (no admin rights)...what about init? If I had a way to log in with init, would I be able to rescue the switch? It used to have admin rights using inads, indspw.

Any other ways? There has to be something else that can be done...I doubt this thing is even support by the manufacturer any more.

Thanks.

 

[phoneguy55]

If a flash card were to go bad you would need to replace it with another prior to shutting down and rebooting the system.

It only a V6 switch. An upgrade was long overdue anyway...

 

[lopes1211]

also ehy people store backups off site. backup flash is no different than backup data for any other server or technolgy device.

-CL

 

[scardn96]

That's to bad...it did the job for what testing needed to be done in my lab. I guess that's it. I just wnated to be sure this thing could not be rescued somehow.

Thanks for your help...

 

[Tolson]

Have you talked to Avaya yet, yes they will charge you some hefty amount but the amount may be worth it instead of junking the system. Give them a call before junking it and then decide based upon what they say.