Dell Networking Open Networking (ON) Switches Default Login information for Remote Management of ONIE
Summary: This article provides information about the default username and password that is used for remote management and file transfer to ONIE.
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What is ONIE
The Open Network Install Environment, or ONIE, is an open-source project within the Open Computer Project that provides an installation environment for bare-metal networking switches. ONIE also provides the option to install different network operating systems on a common set of networking hardware. ONIE is like any operating system boot loader for Windows or Linux. ONIE uses the same Grand Unified Bootloader(GRUB) structure that is commonly found in Linux distributions.
Remote management to ONIE
We can use SSH and Telnet to log in ONIE using the Out of Band Management Port IP Address.
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The default username of ONIE is root. There is no password that is required. |
In some ONIE releases and platforms like S5400 Z9400, Z9600 the ONIE default username is root and password is <service tag>! (all letters uppercase) For example: Consider service tag of switch is X123YYX, then ONIE password is X123YYX! |
If we are using telnet to access ONIE username and password are not required.
Remote File Transfer to ONIE
For File transfer to switch we can use SFTP and SCP into ONIE using the Out of Band Management Port IP Address.| Note |
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The default username of ONIE is root. There is no password that is required. |
In some ONIE releases and platforms like S5400, Z9400, Z9600 the ONIE default username is root and password is <service tag>! (all letters uppercase) For example: Consider service tag of switch is X123YYX, then ONIE password is X123YYX! |
We can use applications like WinSCP to transfer firmware file to ONIE for operating system installation.
Out of Band Management Port IP Address
By default when we connect the Out of Band Management Port to a network, it tries to acquire IP using DHCP.
We can find the IP address of the management port using the below command.
ONIE:~ # ifconfig eth0
Configuring IP address for Out of Band management interface manually
1. Enter the following command to stop the ONIE discovery process if it is running.
ONIE:/ # onie-discovery-stop
2. If a DHCP server is not used, configure the IP address and subnet mask on the management port, where x.x.x.x represents your internal IP address and y.y.y.y the subnet mask.
ONIE:/ # ifconfig eth0 x.x.x.x netmask y.y.y.y up
3. If the server is in a separate subnet, add a default route using the following command: where x.x.x.x represents the gateway IP address
ONIE:/ # route add default gw x.x.x.x
4. Verify the IP address, subnet mask, and gateway using the below command.
ONIE:~ # ifconfig eth0
Affected Products
PowerSwitch S3048-ON, PowerSwitch S4048-ON, PowerSwitch N1100-ON Series, PowerSwitch N2200-ON Series, Dell EMC PowerSwitch N3000E-ON Series, Dell EMC Networking N3200-ON, PowerSwitch S4048T-ON, PowerSwitch S4112F-ON/S4112T-ON
, PowerSwitch S4128F-ON/S4128T-ON, PowerSwitch S4148F-ON/S4148T-ON/S4148FE-ON
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Products
PowerSwitch S4810-ON, PowerSwitch S6000 ON, PowerSwitch S4148U-ON, PowerSwitch S4248FB-ON /S4248FBL-ON, PowerSwitch S5048F-ON, PowerSwitch S5148F-ON, PowerSwitch S5212F-ON, PowerSwitch S5224F-ON, PowerSwitch S5232F-ON, PowerSwitch S5248F-ON
, PowerSwitch S5296F-ON, PowerSwitch S6010-ON, PowerSwitch S6100-ON, PowerSwitch Z9100-ON, PowerSwitch Z9264F-ON, PowerSwitch Z9332F-ON, PowerSwitch Z9432F-ON
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Article Properties
Article Number: 000193191
Article Type: How To
Last Modified: 09 Feb 2023
Version: 2
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