Physical system preparation

The following items are required to perform the initial configuration of a Unitrends physical system:

     Unitrends system – set up in accordance with the Site Preparation Guide.

     Peripherals – the system must be connected to a direct attached mouse, keyboard, and monitor or have access to the peripheral devices via a KVM (Keyboard, video, mouse) switch.

     Ethernet Connection – 1GbE Ethernet cable connected to the switching network backbone.

Unitrends systems are configured with the following default settings.

Item

Description

Default operating system credentials

Default user: root
Default password: unitrends1

Default Administrator Interface (AI) credentials

Default user: root
Default password: unitrends1

Network configuration

The first Ethernet port (eth0) is configured with an IP address of 10.10.10.1 and a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0

IPMI configuration

On some systems, the first Ethernet port (eth0) is also configured for IPMI with DHCP. IPMI can be used for advanced troubleshooting.

The default IPMI credentials are:
user: ADMIN
password: ADMIN.

It is strongly recommended that you change this password for security reasons. See KB 1067 for details.