How To Reset SuperMicro IPMI Remotely?

So I bought a motherboard in early November and played around with it a bit but because of life it had to be put it away. I now have time to set it up properly, however, I can't remember the IPMI password. Unfortunately, I don't have a video card I can plugin. The IPMI interface does get an IP though and the webpage is accessible when connected to my router.

Question: Is there anyway to use the IPMI config tool remotely? Or can I reset it to factory settings somehow?

The motherboard is a A2SDi-4C-HLN4F:
A2SDi-4C-HLN4F | Motherboards | Products - Super Micro Computer, Inc.

 

You could boot a remotely accessible linux installation and then ssh in and do ipmicfg
https://www.servethehome.com/reset-supermicro-ipmi-password-default-lost-login/


But why do you need a graphics card? The vga onboard card will work even if you don't have the password? Thats needed only for the web interface for remote control...

 

If this board uses the Nuvoton IPMI you can flash it from MS-DOS. Refer to this Supermicro FAQ. One of the command line arguments is "reset IPMI to defaults".

 

As Rand_ says, just plug a monitor into the VGA port.

If you've already got an OS installed (or use a bootable linux distro), you can see and reset the admin password like so via ipmitool rather than using ipmicfg;

Code:

root@krikkit:~# ipmitool user list
ID  Name             Callin  Link Auth  IPMI Msg   Channel Priv Limit
1                    true    false      false      Unknown (0x00)
2   admin            false   false      true       ADMINISTRATOR
3                    true    false      false      Unknown (0x00)
4                    true    false      false      Unknown (0x00)
5                    true    false      false      Unknown (0x00)
6                    true    false      false      Unknown (0x00)
7                    true    false      false      Unknown (0x00)
8                    true    false      false      Unknown (0x00)
9                    true    false      false      Unknown (0x00)
10                   true    false      false      Unknown (0x00)
root@krikkit:~# ipmitool user set password 2 $newpassword

...or add a new admin user into one of the empty IDs (I'm using 3) as follows:

Code:

root@krikkit:~# ipmitool user set name 3 pnmj
root@krikkit:~# ipmitool user set password 3 pnmj
Set User Password command successful (user 3)
root@krikkit:~# ipmitool user enable 3
root@krikkit:~# ipmitool user priv 3 0x4
Set Privilege Level command successful (user 3)
root@krikkit:~# ipmitool user list
ID  Name             Callin  Link Auth  IPMI Msg   Channel Priv Limit
1                    true    false      false      Unknown (0x00)
2   admin            true    false      false      Unknown (0x00)
3   pnmj             true    false      false      ADMINISTRATOR
4                    true    false      false      Unknown (0x00)
5                    true    false      false      Unknown (0x00)
6                    true    false      false      Unknown (0x00)
7                    true    false      false      Unknown (0x00)
8                    true    false      false      Unknown (0x00)
9                    true    false      false      Unknown (0x00)
10                   true    false      false      Unknown (0x00)

 

Thanks for the help guys. I didn't realize there was a VGA port onboard which I used.

EffrafaxOfWug thanks for taking the time to type the commands out, it really helped. It was strange though I don't think it changed anything. I got the same results you did but I couldn't log in. Now that I think about it, it's possible I didn't power cycle which would've caused a problems so I'm just letting anyone who reads this to remember that.

In the end I dl'd the files from SuperMicro and used their IPMICFG tool to reset the firmware to stock.