Gigabyte MZ32-AR0 default BMC password?

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Fake Moth

Fake Moth

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Sep 18, 2018
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Hello - this is ridiculous: got my new MZ32-AR0 motherboard and a defective EPYC 7402P (damaged during transport), waited for the second CPU to arrive, I still miss some cables but I managed and after like 3-4 months I try to make use of my new server. Works fine. But no BMC for me, nooo sir!

Wrote to Gigabyte, no answer for now; figured someone may share this arcane mistery and tell me what the hack is the default Megarac password (the login page loads just fine, so no network problems, changed only the IP in BIOS).

The manual states "admin" as the user and the serial number as the password, the last 12 digits. Tried it, no joy; also: whole SN, all caps, all lows, admin/admin, admin/password, root/superadmin and all the defaults I ever encountered, caps too, etc still getting "Login failed". I used both Chromium and Firefox in openSUSE 15.1, no other issues with those, disabled extensions and such...

Went through the BIOS, no option to set/reset there, but at least it confirms that I am not blind and the serial number is OK. Took pictures of the damn number, replaced "0" with "O"/"o". And there is really no other number that I can confuse it to... People killed for less.

Any ideea? Thanks!
 
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Warmwelcome

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To anyone looking for this in the future, here's how to find your BMC password. Boards that were shipped on or after march of 2020 were given a unique BMC password based on the serial number. Before then, it is admin as username and password as the password. The support page on that can be found here. On this board in particular, you can find the sticker that has the serial number under where it says "Gigabyte MZ32-AR0 DDR4" and it will be the same as seen in the photo on that support page. Another good picture of this is on this reference guide. BMC username will always be admin, unless you are trying to access a different user. As an example, looking at the sticker on the board, the SN will look something like this: I/A/JG4P64 00027
The bit that turns into the password is everything past those slashes and the numbers at the end. Remove the bit with the slashes and the space and you have your IPMI password: JG4P6400027
Another example:
SN I/A/JV7C2L 00011
Pass JV7C2L00011


If this doesn't work, reset the board and it should work. The jumpers for that are detailed on page 27 of the boards' manual (link)
 
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