Introduction This guide details howto reset Supermicro IPMI or Intelligent Platform Management Interface to defaults or to reset the login details via bootable USB device or from within a Windows or Linux Operating system. Resetting IPMI using Bootable USB Device 1) Create a bootable USB stick, you can do this using Rufus from on a windows machine.  Just select FreeDOS and Rufus will create a bootable USB memory stick with FreeDOS on it. 2) Next we need Supermicro’s IPMI CFG Utility it can be downloaded from Supermicro’s website here: https://www.supermicro.com/SwDownload/SwSelect_Free.aspx 3) Open the zip file and extract the directory … Continue reading Howto Reset Supermicro IPMI to Defaults