Users Guide

106 Use Case Scenarios
Setting, Modifying, and Deleting BIOS Password
Set or modify the BIOS password.
Prerequisites
To successfully perform remote operations on the server, make sure that the
following prerequisites are met:
• Common Prerequisites.
• Administrator privileges on iDRAC.
• Local status of the current BIOS password.
Workflow
1 Invoke the ChangePassword() method on the DCIM_BIOSService class
with the relevant parameters for the following operations:
– Setting the password
– Modifying the password
To change the password, you must use the correct old password along
with the new one. If you use the wrong password, set and create target
job still works, but the job fails and the password is not changed.
– Deleting the password
2 Invoke the CreateTargetedConfigJob() method to apply the pending
values. If this method is successful, the system must return a job ID for the
configuration task you created.
NOTE: The system must reboot to execute the task of setting the attribute(s).
3 To get the status on percentage completion of the job, execute required
command on the job id.
4 Verify if the BIOS password is locally set on the system.