Category Archives: ilom

Exadata, How to unlock ilom’s root account

After upgrading to ILOM 5.x, password locking is enabled. So root account could be locked after you change password, especially you forgot change it in oem. You can find more detail in Doc ID 2670512.1 . If the root account is locked, you must unlock and changing password cannot unlock the account. As you cannotContinue reading “Exadata, How to unlock ilom’s root account”

Exadata, how to change ilom nameserver by ipconf in cell

You have to stop cell service properly before you change ilom network config in cell. You can find the procedure at How to restart cell services properly I propose you use ipconf to update your network config in exadata system. Don’t use ilom command line , because it doesn’t change /opt/oracle.cellos/cell.conf file, and you will haveContinue reading “Exadata, how to change ilom nameserver by ipconf in cell”

Exadata, ILOM DNS server xxx in system configuration must match xxx in /opt/oracle.cellos/cell.conf

I got a error during exadata patchmgr precheck on cell storage. # ./patchmgr -cells cells -log_dir auto -patch_check_prereq -rolling … cel01: [ERROR] Can not continue. Runtime configuration is not consistent with values configured in /opt/oracle.cellos/cell.conf. cel01: [ERROR] Run ipconf to correct the inconsistencies. Failed check: /root/<em>cellupd_dpullec</em>/<em>p</em>/ipconf -check-consistency -at-runtime -semantic -verbose cel01: [ERROR] Details: cel01: ILOMContinue reading “Exadata, ILOM DNS server xxx in system configuration must match xxx in /opt/oracle.cellos/cell.conf”