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Ontap select single node eval deployment problem

FrenchBlue — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 14:17:05 GMT

Hello,

I've deployed a single node evaluation cluster with Ontap Select deploy. Everything is in the same subnet to start with (vcenter, deploy, single node).

The "cluster" was deployed successfully but with some errors at the end in the log (dns and ntp settings, although I gave the good ip's for deployment), and more annoying, the following error: "ONTAP default password reset failed. Use System Manager to set a new cluster administrator password". Since the password was not set properly, I can't login, so I don't see how I could use system manager to reset the pssword 🙂

Any idea why this failed, and how to fix it? I googled but seems there is no default userid/password?

Thanks.

Re: Ontap select single node eval deployment problem

Reg — Mon, 04 Dec 2017 21:49:19 GMT

Try login to the admin account with the password changeme123

This is the default password in case the defined password is not applied due to some issues in the build process.

Re: Ontap select single node eval deployment problem

FrenchBlue — Tue, 05 Dec 2017 08:27:55 GMT

Thanks a lot, that worked and I could then change the password.