weekend DRAC frustration

[Jared]

Have you tried the default username/password?  For DRAC4, I believe it's
root:calvin.

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Jared

On 08/01/2009 02:02 PM, Howard, Chris wrote:
> I have tried that.  I was able to set the network
> parameters but did not find any way to reset the 
> passwords.  Did I miss it somehow?
> 
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Brian Mathis [mailto:brian.mathis at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2009 12:33 PM
>> To: Howard, Chris
>> Cc: linux-poweredge at dell.com
>> Subject: Re: weekend DRAC frustration
>>
>> Have you tried entering into the RAC config during BIOS bootup?  It
>> usually an option like when you press Ctrl-R to enter RAID config,
>> etc...  You should be able to set the password in there.
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Howard, Chris<HowardC at prpa.org> wrote:
>>> I bought a used DRAC 4 card from a reseller
>>> for my production PE2850.
>>>
>>> I installed it.
>>>
>>> It has passwords set other than the default.
>>>
>>> Google searching, it looks like I must have racadm
>>> command available on the local machine to reset
>>> the passwords on the DRAC.
>>>
>>> I downloaded a knoppix bootable image with DRAC utilities
>>> on it and booted from that.  The racadm commands
>>> all give transport errors.
>>>
>>> I downloaded CentOS bootable image with OMSA.
>>> No DRAC utilities.
>>>
>>> I would just install DRAC and OMSA directly, but
>>> the yum setup on this box is hosed.  Maybe I should
>>> just rebuild it and get yum working and start
>>> from scratch.
>>>
>>> Argh.
>>>
>>> Any other way to get that password reset without
>>> a major overhaul?
>>>
>>> Chris Howard
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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