Re: ASMI Login Password

[Sam_L <lennon_s_j@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the info.  Yes, it is a 520, M25.  Aargh!  I really don't 
want to power down completely.  I'll see what our maintenance guy says 
when he calls back tomorrow.

Sam

On 3/8/2012 9:14 PM, DrFranken wrote:
> Sam,
>
> An IBM CE can log in with celogon but they will not give you that
> password. The password is a manufactured one based on date, serial
> number, etc which the CE passes to service who generates and gives him
> the password. It works only for that day. With that password the admin
> password can be changed. Without IBM hardware maintenance I can't say
> for sure if your maintenance company will be able to get IBM to give
> them that password but I would guess No.
>
> If you have a 520 the switches are on the FSP and yes they are tiny.
> Itty bitty even. No matter what position they are in both need to be
> switched. Of course you must pull the card out to do this which means
> 100% cold power off (Plugs out!) Once the switches are flipped, card
> replaced, and plugs are back in, then the HMC will re-authenticate to
> the FSP and you'll assign a new admin password (along with the general
> password and the hmcaccess password as well.)
>
> - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis
>
> On 3/8/2012 9:05 PM, Sam_L wrote:
> > While in the HMC trying to track down a 100090F0 reference code today, I
> > got as far as trying to get into the ASMI. Unfortunately, that needs a
> > password and the prior administration doesn’t seem to have left any.
> > There are 4 User IDs shown; 3 are disabled and celogin is the only one
> > enabled.
> >
> > Googling around, it looks like there should be an admin user id, but no
> > password I can think of seems to work.
> >
> > To reset the password, you should contact your service provider, or
> > reset two jumper switches somewhere on the service processor. I am
> > loathe to try this latter approach (hardware is my second, inherited,
> > career.)
> >
> > Is there a secret CE Login that our maintenance company should have?
> >
> > (We are on 3rd party, not IBM, hardware maintenance. We do have IBM
> > software maintenance. Not sure where this falls.)