HP ProLiant SL2500 Scalable System - Manual (Page 54)

General commands 54
General commands
Working with passwords
HP APM has a password recovery mechanism through the reset switch. If you press the reset switch for more
than 5 seconds, the board reboots and proceeds in the password recovery mode. In the password recovery
mode, the board boots up without asking for a password. All network interface is disabled.
HP APM has only one login account. This account is the “Administrator” account. If a password is assigned
to the administrator account, the password is stored on the HP APM controller. If you move the controller to
another HP APM enclosure, the password moves with the controller.
Configuring Ethernet requires a password.
Setting HP APM passwords
To set the password, enter SET PASSWORD.
You are prompted for a password when you access SSH, Telnet, or serial port access to the HP APM. You can
have only one password for HP APM.
The password must be between 8 and 40 characters, and can include:
• Uppercase letters
• Lowercase letters
• Underscores (_)
• Dashes (-)
• At signs (@)
• Pound signs (#)
• Carets (^)
• Ampersands (&)
• Exclamation points (!)
• Plus symbols (+)
• Equal symbols (=)
• Tilde (~)
• Numerical values between 0–9
To save and enable the password, press Enter.
Alternatively, you can set the password by entering SET PASSWORD <”password”>. For example, enter
the following:
SET PASSWORD "alphabravo"