Reset Admin password for Cisco UCS Director

Hi All,

In this post i am going to take you through the process of resting the admin password of UCS Director.

As you might be aware that UCS director is a CentOS based appliance and the process to rest the root or the admin password is a bit different then other CentOS based server as this is highly customized appliance by Cisco.

Step1

To login to the ssh shell we have to use the user ‘shelladmin’ the default password set by Cisco is ‘changeme’ on you first login you will be required to change this.

Reenter the new password

Step2

You will be then presented with a menu. you need to press option 22 to change or reset the root password.

22) Manage Root Access

Type 22 as shown in the screen below

SELECT> 22

You can notice that a simple password was not accepted so i had to give a complex password. create one with letters numbers and special case.

Step3

Then login to the shell as root and run the scrip in the location.
/opt/infra/dbPwdReset.sh

As you can see below the option to specify admin password is not give as the password will be rest to the default password which is ‘changeme’

Then you can login to the UCS Director UI as admin and change the password from ‘changeme’ to your desired password. Make sure you keep this password safe or remember it for the next time you login. 🙂

Once the password is change you will be logout, you will need to reenter the password to login again to mange the UCS Director

More information about Cisco UCS Director can be found on the links below

Getting Started guide

httpss://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/ucs-director/getting-started-guide/6-5/cisco-ucs-director-getting-started-65.html

Overview of Cisco UCS Director
httpss://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/ucs-director/fundamentals-guide/5-4/b_UCS_Director_Fundamentals_Guide_54/Overview.pdf

References:

httpss://www.cisco.com/c/pt_br/products/servers-unified-computing/ucs-director/index.html

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