Partners Stunned By Cisco Password Snafu

Partners are scratching their heads as Cisco reveals that servers send wrong with the default password of customers for over seven weeks.

"It's very rare that Cisco - has never happened before," said Jamie Shepard, senior vice president of health care and the strategy for Lumenate, Cisco partner based in Addison Texas ,. "It is rare overall, the evidence and [quality assurance] in the team has been very strong."

From November 17, 2015, to January 6, 2016, the networking giant based in San Jose California, has sent a number of C-series servers - including UCS - a password unknown to their clients default , prevented administrators to connect to their servers.

The default password is supposed to be "password" but had changed Cisco exam dumps "Cisco 1234" sometime in November without telling their customers.

"I have not seen this many times - it seems rather odd," said Robert Keblusek, Sentinel Technologies based in Downers Grove Illinois ,, CTO of Cisco Gold Partner.

In a statement to CRN, Cisco said the January 11, 2016 a notice warning that customer passwords were poorly provisioned factory locations was issued.

"Cisco has taken the necessary corrective measures in the areas of the plant and also proactive measures to inform customers eliminate disturbances in the server rack deployments of Cisco measures," the company said in a statement.

The alert also describes solutions to solve the problem, even if the network provider does not explain the reason behind the error password.

CRN partners said they expect the problem of having little or no impact on their business from Cisco.

"I see a client self-display that has a problem and the need to open support tickets in a row, but generally have excellent communications with Cisco and hear about these things early enough not threaten our implementation team" , Keblusek said. "I have not heard of an impact, delay or embarrassment in the field of our views. Our deployments continue as usual."

Shepard speculated that the issue could have been due to a rate of mass adoption of Cisco UCS.

"This is just a sample of how people have taken swift UCS because they are free of features and functionality," Shepard said.

Cisco introduced its popular UCS solution in 2009. In its most recent quarterly results in November, Cisco reported its data center operations, including UCS, rose 24 percent in the year to $ 859 million.

"Maybe it was a mistake because of the way customers are just loving UCS and have had zero problems since its launch," Shepard said.