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I'm lost on why any enterprise kit at all has a reset button. This isn't a Netgear router where the ISP regularly asks people to "press reset" when they forget their password.

I was happy to use a console cable and send a break when I rarely needed to reset Cisco kit. Why these sorts of buttons ever existed I don't understand.

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General idea here is that when you have a problematic piece of gear in somebody else's DC across the country, it is usually easier and faster to ask "remote hands" to press and hold the button, compared to asking to get a laptop, serial cable, fire up a terminal, join webex with his laptop and only then try to send break or whatever.

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