Reset the Password on a Dell Drac Interface

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The Dell PowerEdge series of servers come with built into management interfaces called DRACs.

This page instructs you on how to change the DRAC password.

With DRAC 4 [1] the default superuser was "root" in the first index slot.

With DRAC 5 [2] they added "Administrator" to index 1 and moved root to index 2, which changes the command needed to change the root password.

The DRAC password may be changed by logging into the OS as OS user "root" and running the racadm command to change the DRAC "root" user password. The commands are listed below.

The default DRAC password for DELL PowerEdge systems is "calvin". [3]

Steps

  1. For DRAC 4 password, as root on the host run the following racadm command to change the DRAC password:
    • racadm config -g cfgUserAdmin -o cfgUserAdminPassword -i 1 "newpasswordhere"
    • To check it, use: racadm getconfig -g cfgUserAdmin -o cfgUserAdminPassword -i 1
  2. For DRAC 5 password, as root on the host run the following racadm command to change the DRAC password: (notice it's index 2 for DRAC 5):
    • racadm config -g cfgUserAdmin -o cfgUserAdminPassword -i 2 "newpasswordhere"
    • To check it, use: racadm getconfig -g cfgUserAdmin -o cfgUserAdminPassword -i 2

Sources and Citations

  1. ↑ http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/software/smdrac3/drac4/
  2. ↑ http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/software/smdrac3/drac5/
  3. ↑ http://www.cuddletech.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=881
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