how to factory reset ASR 1001-X

Question

So I was setting up/testing this router. While using auto-secure during the auto-configuration. {Router#setup...}

Once I get through auto setup and reloaded. I was not able to login.

I did some reading online which told me that auto-secure feature disables the "admin" username.

You guessed it, I only setup one username called "admin"

My question is there a way to reset or recover, since I don't have other username to log into the router. If not, then how would i do a factory reset of the ASR 1001-x router.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

There is no actual factory reset like there is on a consumer-grade router. You must perform a password recovery, then you can erase the startup configuration and reload.

See the detailed instruction in the link above to get into enable mode, then you can:

erase startup-config

After that:

reload

Do not save the running configuration when prompted.