Access Server With Ethernet Cable

KaminKevCrew · March 24, 2015

Hi all, I have an older HP server (HP MediaSmart Server) from about 2006. It was my step dad's, and he was the one that managed it. Anyway, he passed away a few years ago, and I finally have the time to look at what's on it, and see if there are any pictures or anything like that, which we may want to save. Anyway, I just powered it on, and it's cycling through the Drive LED's. (There are LED's indicating what drive cages are full - 1-4, and the light just cycles through.) I plugged it into my computer directly via an ethernet cable, and I can't access it. Is there a way for me to get to the Data without pulling each drive individually, and looking at them? (I don't want to do that because I don't know if they were in a RAID array when they were in the server.) Would my computer be able to detect if they were, and set it up, if all drives were plugged directly to my computer?

Lumi · March 24, 2015

you could try to SSH into it if you have the password and if it has SSH enabled.

VirtualR3ality · March 24, 2015

Yea, you would need to plug it into a router first and find the IP through your router panel.

Do you have any information on the os? If it is a UNIX based OS then you can reset the password through single user mode and then reset the root password.

However you will need a KVM card to do so.