Maintenance Partition
You can use the Maintenance Partition for the following purposes:
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If the modules application partition is corrupted, use the maintenance partition to recover and reprogram the application partition.
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Use the show crashdump command from the Maintenance Partition to obtain the crash dump, for debugging purposes.
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The application module can be upgraded from the Maintenance Partition.
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The enable password for the module can be cleared from the Maintenance Partition command line interface (CLI).
To get into the Maintenance partition, use either the session command or telnet* command from the switch. It can be accessed by Telnetting to 127.0.0.x1 (x = slot # of the FWSM module). Example 4-8 shows a sample output of how to connect to the FWSM if it is on slot 3 on the switch.