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Ok.. so.

Worst possible scenario with new (to me) server.

For whatever reason this server does not output video on either the front or rear VGA port.

..also, I went to reset the default password (as is good standard practice) to the local HTTP DRAC site, and it will not accept the new password.

So the scenario is thus:

Is there a hardware method to reset the DRAC to defaults? Again, I do not have local video (the machine powers up just fine it seems, and I used to be able to log into the DRAC), so I am unable to just fire off the normal reset commands from the local terminal.

I have scoured the internet for suggestions to the video problem to no avail, and now that I lost access to even the local DRAC HTTP site.. I am in a pickle.

Thoughts?

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I sure wish there was a solution here. All was well until I made a change to esxi to allow passthrough for ethernet and turned off "web server" in iDRAC. No video, no network. Just a noisy paperweight.

I did it!! I stumbled upon racadm commands and a couple hours later saw something about ssh. I remembered I had made it a point to have ssh on. In spite of not having a gui, I CAN connect with putty! Hope this helps someone. Commands in ( ) because I'm on my cell phone.

(racadm racreset) for a soft reset (no saved settings will be changed) or (racadm racresetcfg) for a hard reset (IP/Account settings will be set back to factory default)

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