Change Administrative Passwords - Dell SC8000 Deployment Manual

Chapter 6 Perform Post-Setup Tasks

Change Administrative Passwords

Storage Center and the iDRAC ship with default administrative credentials. As a security
measure, change them before putting the Storage Center into production.
Change Storage Center Administrative Password
Change the administrative password to something other than the default.
1 From the Storage Management menu, select User→ Change User Password.
2 Select Admin and click Continue.
3 Enter a new password in the Enter Password and Reenter Password fields.
4 Click OK.
Change iDRAC Administrative Password
Change the iDRAC administrative password to something other than the default.
1 Use a web browser to navigate to the IP address of the iDRAC in controller 1. The
iDRAC login page appears.
2 Enter the iDRAC user name (root) and password (calvin) and click Submit. The iDRAC
web interface appears.
3 In the left pane of the iDRAC web interface, click User Authentication.
4 Click the Local Users tab if necessary. Locate the Administrator user row and click the
number (probably 2) in the first cell of the row.
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