Users Guide
Configuring Your Managed System 21
Configuring New BMC Users
The BMC is configured by default with user ID 2 set to username:
root
, password:
calvin
. It is
highly recommended that you change the user name and password when deploying your system.
1
Insert the DOS-bootable BMC configuration diskette or CD into the appropriate drive of the
system to be deployed and reboot the system.
2
To create a new user, at the command prompt, type:
bmccfg username --userid=
X
--name=
name
where
X
is a number from 2–10, and
name
is an ASCII string of 16 or fewer characters.
Press <Enter> to execute the command line options.
3
To enable the new user ID, at the command prompt, type:
bmccfg useraction --userid=
X
--action=enable
Press <Enter> to execute the command line options.
4
To set the password for a BMC user, at the command prompt, type:
bmccfg passwordaction --action=setpassword --userid=
X
--
password=
password
where
password
is an ASCII string of 16 or fewer characters.
NOTICE: A password must be set for each BMC user. The BMC firmware does not allow access to users
with null user names or passwords.
Press <Enter> to execute the command line options.
Configuring the BMC IP Address
1
Insert the DOS-bootable diskette or CD into the appropriate drive of the system to be
deployed and reboot the system.
2
To configure the BMC IP address source for the LAN channel to DHCP, at the command
prompt, type:
bmccfg lcp --ipaddrsrc=dhcp
Press <Enter> to execute the command line options.
For a complete list of all valid options, suboptions, and arguments for configuring the BMC
LAN channel see the
Deployment Toolkit Version 1.3 Command Line Interface Reference
Guide
.