Setting the GigaVUE-FM Admin Password

You can set the admin password for GigaVUE-FM from the GigaVUE‑FM Command-line Interface (CLI) or from the GigaVUE‑FM GUI. This topic describes the requirements for the password.

The characters in the admin password must include, at least:

  • At least 8 characters and up to a maximum of 64 characters in length
  • One numerical character
  • One upper case character
  • One lower case character
  • One special character from -!@#$%^&*()+

If the password does not meet the complexity requirements:

  • The system does not display any error message.
  • The parameters configured above are not passed on to the GigaVUE-FM except the host name parameter.
  • The static IP addresses that were configured originally will be unavailable after GigaVUE-FM is deployed.

The password can be a minimum of 14 characters and a maximum of 255 characters, and must comply with the character requirements specified above.

Note:  The password that you set from the GigaVUE-FM CLI is applicable only to the GigaVUE-FM CLI.

You must change the default admin password when you first login to the GigaVUE-FM UI. The default username and password for a admin user in GigaVUE-FM GUI is admin and admin123A!!, respectively. If GigaVUE-FM is deployed inside AWS or OpenStack, then the default password is the Instance ID. You can change the default admin password from GUI. The password can be a minimum of 8 characters and a maximum of 64 characters, and must comply with the character requirements specified above.

Note:   The password that you set from the GigaVUE‑FM GUI is applicable only to the GigaVUE-FM GUI.