Resetting a Lost BMC Password with ipmitool

I recently got my hands on a couple of gigabyte servers. These machines came preinstalled with Ubuntu 20.04. Credentials for a OS local user account were on a sticker on the machines. However there was no indication of what the BMC credentials were. According to this document, there should be default credentials that we can … Continue reading Resetting a Lost BMC Password with ipmitool

OpenStack Ironic – CLI Cheat Sheet

Ironic is the baremetal provisioning componentĀ of OpenStack. Ironic interacts with hardware through a set of plug-ins. Technologies leveraged are PXE and IPMI as well as a few vendor specific plug-ins. Here are a few OpenStack Ironic commands that I have found useful when troubleshooting. List nodes registered with Ironic. $ ironic node-list   Show details … Continue reading OpenStack Ironic – CLI Cheat Sheet