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How to Restore Factory Defaults on Dell Networking Force10 S4810


This article explains how to Restore Factory Defaults on Dell Networking Force10 S4810.

Important Points to Remember

  • When you restore all the units in a stack, these units are placed in standalone mode.
  • When you restore a single unit in a stack, only that unit is placed in standalone mode. No other units in the stack are affected.
  • When you restore the units in standalone mode, the units remain in standalone mode after the restoration.
  • After the restore is complete, the units power cycle immediately.

Command to Restore Factory Default

Restoring factory defaults will delete the existing persistent settings (configuration, stacking, fanout, etc.) After restoration the unit(s) will be power cycled immediately. Proceed with CAUTION !

Command

Parameters

FTOS# restore factory-defaults {0-5 | all} {bootvar | clear-all | nvram}

Restores and clears config, stacking, fanout, etc..
0-5 - indicates the switch number to be factory reset
all - indicates all switches to be factory reset
Bootvar - Reset Boot environment variables
Clear-all - Reset BootVar, NvRam and configurations
NvRam - Reset NvRam
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Article ID: HOW10777

Last Date Modified: 10/19/2017 05:58 AM

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