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.

Monitor your HP Smart Array RAID controller from XenServer 6.2

I have a few HP Proliant Servers that I use as XenServer hosts. The problem is that I want to know the health of my disks and my RAID arrays, and of course I can't get those from the XenServer guests.

So here's what we do:

Just google for knowledge base search hp support center (HP changes their links too often for me to give you the current link, it will probably change in a few months), follow that link and then choose "Search HP Support Center" in Knowledge Base.

When you're there search for HP Array Configuration Utility CLI for Linux and select the most recent 32-bit version (XenServer Dom0 is 32-bit).

Get its URL and download it from your XenServer or download it to your PC and sftp it to your Xenserver. The most recent version at the time of writing was this:

http://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib2/software1/pubsw-linux/p414707558/v71530/hpacucli-9.10-22.0.i386.rpm

Time for the fun part. Let's log into our XenServer:

[root@server ~]# wget http://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib2/software1/pubsw-linux/p414707558/v71530/hpacucli-9.10-22.0.i386.rpm

From the README.txt:

Description
-----------

  The Array Configuration Utility CLI is a commandline-based disk
   configuration program for Smart Array Controllers and
   RAID Array Controllers.
 
* All other product names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their
  respective companies.

Supported Controllers

  Smart Array products:
     Smart Array 5312 Controller
     Smart Array 5302 Controller
     Smart Array 5304 Controller
     Smart Array 532 Controller
     Smart Array 5i Controller 
     Smart Array 641 Controller
     Smart Array 642 Controller
     Smart Array 6400 Controller
     Smart Array 6400 EM Controller
     Smart Array 6i Controller
     Smart Array P600 Controller
     Smart Array P400 Controller
     Smart Array P400i Controller
     Smart Array E200 Controller
     Smart Array E200i Controller
     Smart Array P800 Controller
     Smart Array E500 Controller
     Smart Array P700m Controller
     Smart Array P410i Controller
     Smart Array P411 Controller
     Smart Array P212 Controller
     Smart Array P712m Controller
     Smart Array B110i SATA RAID
     Smart Array P812 Controller
     Smart Array P220i Controller
     Smart Array P222 Controller
     Smart Array P420 Controller
     Smart Array P420i Controller
     Smart Array P421 Controller
     Smart Array P822 Controller
     Dynamic Smart Array B320i RAID
     Dynamic Smart Array B120i RAID

  MSA products:
     MSA500 Controller
     MSA500 G2 Controller
     MSA1000 Controller    
     MSA1500 CS Controller
     MSA20 Controller  

[root@server ~]# yum install -y --nogpgcheck hpacucli-9.10-22.0.i386.rpm
[root@server ~]# hpacucli controller slot=1 physicaldrive all show
Smart Array P410 in Slot 1

   array A

      physicaldrive 1I:1:1 (port 1I:box 1:bay 1, SATA, 1 TB, OK)
      physicaldrive 1I:1:2 (port 1I:box 1:bay 2, SATA, 1 TB, OK)

   array B

      physicaldrive 1I:1:3 (port 1I:box 1:bay 3, SATA, 1 TB, OK)
      physicaldrive 1I:1:4 (port 1I:box 1:bay 4, SATA, 1 TB, OK)

   array C

      physicaldrive 1I:1:5 (port 1I:box 1:bay 5, SATA, 1 TB, OK)
      physicaldrive 1I:1:6 (port 1I:box 1:bay 6, SATA, 1 TB, OK)

   array D

      physicaldrive 1I:1:7 (port 1I:box 1:bay 7, SATA, 1 TB, OK)
      physicaldrive 1I:1:8 (port 1I:box 1:bay 8, SATA, 1 TB, OK)

   array E

      physicaldrive 1I:1:9 (port 1I:box 1:bay 9, SATA, 1 TB, OK)
      physicaldrive 1I:1:10 (port 1I:box 1:bay 10, SATA, 1 TB, OK)

And a few helpful commands:

[root@server ~]# hpacucli help
CLI Syntax
   A typical ACU CLI command line consists of three parts: a target device, 
   a command, and a parameter with values if necessary. Using angle brackets to
   denote a required variable and plain brackets to denote an optional 
   variable, the structure of a typical ACU CLI command line is as follows:

      <target> <command> [parameter=value]

   <target> is of format:
      [controller all|slot=#|wwn=#|chassisname="AAA"|
                  serialnumber=#|chassisserialnumber=#|ctrlpath=#:# ]
      [array all|<id>]
      [physicaldrive all|allunassigned|[#:]#:#|[#:]#:#-[#:]#:#]
      [ssdphysicaldrive all|allunassigned|[#:]#:#|[#:]#:#-[#:]#:#]
      [logicaldrive all|#]
      [enclosure all|#:#|serialnumber=#|chassisname=#]
      [licensekey all|<key>]
      [ssdinfo]
      Note 1: The #:#:# syntax is only needed for systems that
              specify port:box:bay. Other physical drive targeting
              schemes are box:bay and port:id.
      Note 2: The chassisserialnumber is known in ACU as the
              RAID Array Serial Number. The chassisname is known
              in ACU as the RAID Array ID.
      Note 3: ctrlpath=#:# maps to "smart enclosure hooked up to 
              host bus adapter slot:host bus adapter port"

   Example targets:
      controller slot=5
      controller chassisname="Lab C"
      controller serialnumber=P21DA2322S
      controller chassisserialnumber=9J3CJN71XDCH
      controller wwn=500308B300701011
      controller slot=7 array A
      controller slot=5 logicaldrive 5
      controller slot=5 physicaldrive 1:5
      controller slot=5 physicaldrive 1E:2:3
      controller slot=5 ssdphysicaldrive all
      controller slot=5 enclosure 4E:1 show
      controller slot=5 licensekey XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX

For detailed command information type any of the following: 
   help add
   help create
   help delete
   help diag
   help modify
   help remove
   help shorthand
   help show
   help target
   help rescan
   help version

Help also accepts commonly used CLI parameters and ACU keywords. Adding
additional keywords will further filter the help output. Examples: 
   help ssp        (shows all ssp help including show and modify commands)
   help ssp modify (restricts ssp help to only modify commands)
   help migrate
   help expand   
   help extend   
   help <keyword> <keyword> ... <keyword>

   Please note that beginning with ACU/ACUCLI version 8.55, the term 
   "stripe size" has been replaced by "strip size."  This is a change
   of labeling and does not signify a change in functionality.  When 
   distributing data across multiple physical drives (striping) the
   "strip size" is the amount of data that is written to each physical
   drive.  The "full stripe size" refers to the combined size of all
   the strips across all physical drives,  excluding parity-only drives.

Done!