Friday, December 5, 2014

Recover BMC administrator password on HP Proliant DL180 G6

This is from my notes. I don't have an HP Proliant DL180 G6 server in front of me, but I trust my notes and I think this description should be as accurate as it can. You'll need a PC with an internet connection, a USB drive and a jumper connector. You might also need a Linux Live CD (the instructions here assume that you have a RHEL-based Live CD).

a) Disconnect AC power from the system
b) Insert jumper on connector J27, D group pins 
c) Update BMC firmware using HP ROMPaq Firmware Upgrade for HP ProLiant G6 Lights-Out 100 Remote Management (For USB Key-Media).
    Detailed information is available at the following Web page: http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=15351&prodSeriesId=3884343&swItem=MTX-bd27c5aa4f134285aa4825e143&prodNameId=3884344&swEnvOID=1005&swLang=13&taskId=135&mode=4&idx=1
d) Copy the impitool.exe binary from http://www.intel.com/design/servers/ipmi/ipmi_tool.htm onto the USB drive
e) Remove AC power and remove the jumper from J27, D group pins.
f) After BMC recovery is complete, boot from the USB key again and do:
ipmitool.exe 20 18 47 03 02 61 64 6d 69 6e 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
g) Remove USB drive and shutdown.
h) If the admininstrator user was "admin" you can now log in as admin/admin. If you still can't log in, proceed as follows (the following instructions are for a RHEL Live CD):
  1. Get a Linux Live CD
  2. yum update
  3. modprobe ipmi_msghandler
  4. modprobe ipmi_devintf
  5. modprobe ipmi_si
  6. yum search ipmi
  7. yum -y install ipmitool
  8. ipmitool user list
  9. note down the name of user id #3 and log in with that as a username and password admin.

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