HP iLO password reset

13/06/2025 admin News, VMWare

We changed a motherboard in our HP DL360 G9 server and couldn’t log in into iLO but there was working VMWARE ESXi 7 system and we reset it via SSH ESXi console.

1. You need to download HP Lights-Out Online Configuration Utility for Linux (x86/AMD32)
2. Unpack it and find files hponcfg and lib…so. Upload it to an ESXi storage.
3. Place the lib-file to /usr/lib/
4. Create an xml file like that and replace newpass with your new password. It must be long enough, 8+ symbols.

<RIBCL VERSION="2.0">

  <LOGIN USER_LOGIN="x" PASSWORD="x">

  <USER_INFO MODE="write">

    <MOD_USER USER_LOGIN="Administrator">

      <PASSWORD value="newpass"/>

    </MOD_USER>

  </USER_INFO>

  </LOGIN>

</RIBCL>

5. Execute the following command (replace with your filename): ./hponcfg -f ilo_reset.xml

If you get “Script succeed” than it’s done.

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