How do I update an anti-theft password?

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CAUTION 

CAUTION

Communication problems

This procedure is service impacting because it causes the NEs to reboot.

Use the following high-level steps to change the anti-theft password on the NEs associated with a discovery rule.

All the NEs associated with a discovery rule share the same anti-theft password, therefore all the associated NEs will be affected if a password needs to be updated.

Steps
 
1 

Disable anti-theft on all NEs associated with the discovery rule, see the NE documentation.

2 

If you want some of the NEs to have a different password from others, move them to a different discovery rule.

  1. Create or edit a discovery rule with the IP addresses you need to move; see “How do I discover devices?” and “How do I edit or delete a discovery rule?” in the NSP Device Management Guide.

  2. Remove the IP addresses from the previous discovery rule.

  3. Verify that the new discovery rule includes an anti-theft policy with the correct password for all the NEs it will discover.

3 

Update the password on the NEs, see the NE documentation.

4 

Edit the anti-theft policy to apply the new password.

5 

Enable anti-theft on the NEs, see the NE documentation.

6 

Run the updated discovery rules in force mode using the RESTCONF API; see Device Administration and Mediation RESTCONF APIs on the Network Developer Portal.

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