Reply to post: Uhm... wait for the downtime...

Dead LAN's hand: IT staff 'locked out' of data center's core switch after the only bloke who could log into it dies

Christian Berger

Uhm... wait for the downtime...

... shut it down, pull the CF-card and read the configuration if it's a larger device.

Alternatively boot into "factory config", log in with the default credentials and read the starup config.

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