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captainjamestikirk
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lost idrac password
poweredge r840, idrac version 9. can someone give me step by step instructions on resetting the idrac password back to default so we can login to create a new password?
we reset the password when we first got it, but what we have in our pw manager as the pw is just not working.
captainjamestikirk
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Posted December 1st, 2021 08:00
it is running esxi
DELL-Shine K
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Posted December 1st, 2021 08:00
You can reset iDRAC Password using below two method
- Reboot the server and traverse to F2 -> iDRAC Settings. You will get an option to reset iDRAC root password here
- You can also install iDRAC Tools on the operating system and run below command to reset root passwords. For this you need to have a supported operating system. Can you share operating system you have on the server so that I can share the iDRAC Tools link for same
racadm set iDRAC.users.2.password
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Posted December 1st, 2021 10:00
Hi,
We have idrac tools available for ESXi. https://dell.to/3Egzme2
ESXi 7 does use a different version than 6. So make sure that you select which version from the dropdown.
Origin3k
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Posted December 1st, 2021 11:00
As shown here https://www.dell.com/community/PowerEdge-Hardware-General/OMSA-and-poweredge-840-running-esxi/m-p/8077932#M71814
you can reset the idrac password withou a reboot and to know the existing password to modify the idrac root user. All whats needed is a racadm installed on your ESXi. We use VUM and a propper baseline to ensure that we have install it on all of your Hosts.
You can install the iDRAC Tools vIb without to reboot the ESXi but you need to place the Host into maintenance mode.
Regards,
Joerg