restore factory default SBC Dell Server

[dragil]

Hi All

How to restore factory default SBC ?
SBC on Dell Server there is no reset button on the front panel / rear.

Please advise.

Many thanks.

[sunilkumarv]

Hello,

do you want to default the server hardware config (BIOS, RAID config etc) or do you want to install SBC ?

Regards
Sunil

[moyaw]

steps for Dell servers password reset

1. Use the power button to reboot the system.

2. When you are at the selection prompt, highlight the first line for our kernel and press 'e'. You may only have 2 seconds to do this, so be quick.

3. This will take you to another screen where you should select the entry that begins with 'kernel' and press 'e' again.

4. Add 'rw' after /sda3 (without quotes) and Append 'single' to the end of that line (without the quotes). Make sure that there is a space between what's there and 'single'. If your system requires you to enter your root password to log into single-user mode, then append init=/bin/bash after 'single'. Hit 'Enter' to save the changes.

5. Press 'b' to boot into Single User Mode.

6. Once the system finishes booting, you will be logged in as root. Use passwd and choose a new password for root.

7. Type reboot to reboot the system, and you can login with the new password you just selected.

Example of edited kernel in 3rd step and password changes
pentium4-3.8-sipera_9 root=/dev/sda3 console="ttyS0,19200"

edited to this
pentium4-3.8-sipera_9 root=/dev/sda3 rw console="ttyS0,19200" single init=/bin/bash

After entering 'b'

At the prompt type passwd and enter new root password twice.
Then reboot by typing shutdown -r server
If this does not work manually power down and power up

After the above reboot, login as root and change ipcs password as seen below.


UCSEC152 login:root
Password:

After changing root password you can now change the ipcs password:

root@UCSEC152:/# passwd ipcs

You can now choose the new password.

A valid password should be a mix of upper and lower case letters, digits, and other characters. You can use an 8 character long password with characters from all of these classes. An upper case letter that begins the password and a digit that ends it do not count towards the number of character classes used.

Enter new password:

Re-type new password:

passwd:
password updated successfully

Reboot and login as ipcs

root@UCSEC152:/# reboot



Factory reset

Use Web browser to connect to the GUI via https:// < IP of EMS>
GUI Login id= ucsec PW=ucsec

First, go to System Management
Hit the red X to delete the SBC out of the GUI.

Use Putty to log into the console port of the SBC
Login as root or ipcs
(if login as ipcs then must do the command sudo su to get root permissions).
Then at the # prompt type in ipcs-reconfigure
This will take you to the Provisioning script.
On the Device Configuration screen, select Operations and do factory reset.

(This step alone is not enough to wipe out configuration so that is why you need to also delete device in Web browser interface ).

The SBC will reboot.

Use Putty to log into the console port of the SBC
Login as root or ipcs
(if login as ipcs then must do the command sudo su to get root permissions).
This will take you to the Provisioning script.
On the Device Configuration screen, select Configuration which will allow you to put in new management IP.
Use Web browser to connect to the GUI via https:// < IP of EMS>
GUI Login id= ucsec PW=ucsec

Finally, go to System Management and configure the SBC like new.

This is something I found in internet and helps me a lot

Regards