{"id":167,"date":"2018-12-18T15:51:42","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T14:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gillan.be\/wordpress\/?p=167"},"modified":"2018-12-18T15:55:02","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T14:55:02","slug":"reset-hp-ilo-admin-password-in-esxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gillan.be\/wordpress\/reset-hp-ilo-admin-password-in-esxi\/","title":{"rendered":"Reset HP iLO Admin password in ESXi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kb.vmware.com\/s\/article\/2004746\">Enable SSH on your ESXi host.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Login with with PuTTY SSH to the host with your usual username and password.<\/p>\n<p>Go to the location of the HP tools<\/p>\n<pre>cd \/opt\/hp\/tools<\/pre>\n<p>Create a new file<\/p>\n<pre>vi pwreset.xml<\/pre>\n<p>And paste this text into it (press i to insert text) and change the value=&#8221;password&#8221; into the password you want for the Administrator user.<\/p>\n<pre id=\"crayon-5c0a944bd41c1462098872-1\" class=\"crayon-line\">&lt;RIBCL VERSION=\"2.0\"&gt;\n&lt;LOGIN USER_LOGIN=\"Administrator\" PASSWORD=\"unknown\"&gt;\n&lt;USER_INFO MODE=\"write\"&gt;\n&lt;MOD_USER USER_LOGIN=\"Administrator\"&gt;\n&lt;PASSWORD value=\"password\"\/&gt;\n&lt;\/MOD_USER&gt;\n&lt;\/USER_INFO&gt;\n&lt;\/LOGIN&gt;\n&lt;\/RIBCL&gt;<\/pre>\n<p>Press ESC, type :wq and press enter. Then type this command<\/p>\n<pre>\/opt\/hp\/tools\/hponcfg -f pwreset.xml<\/pre>\n<p>You should get an output telling you the script has succeeded.<\/p>\n<p>You should now be able to login into the ILO with the Administrator and the chosen password.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p>\n\nSource:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vcloudnine.de\/reset-the-hp-ilo-administrator-password-with-hponcfg-on-esxi\/\">https:\/\/www.vcloudnine.de\/reset-the-hp-ilo-administrator-password-with-hponcfg-on-esxi\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enable SSH on your ESXi host. Login with with PuTTY SSH to the host with your usual username and password. Go to the location of the HP tools cd \/opt\/hp\/tools Create a new file vi pwreset.xml And paste this text into it (press i to insert text) and change the value=&#8221;password&#8221; into the password you &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gillan.be\/wordpress\/reset-hp-ilo-admin-password-in-esxi\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reset HP iLO Admin password in ESXi&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[73,75,72,74],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esxi","tag-esxi-reset","tag-hp-ilo-password","tag-hp-ilo-reset","tag-reset-ilo-password"],"featured_media_urls":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gillan.be\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gillan.be\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gillan.be\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gillan.be\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gillan.be\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/gillan.be\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"http:\/\/gillan.be\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gillan.be\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gillan.be\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gillan.be\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}