This step was applied and tested on SUN SPARC T1000. Physical access to the system so that the power cables can be accessed and a serial connection can be made to the system is required for this procedure.
1. Make a connection to the ALOM serial management port.
2.Power cycle the system by unplugging the server's power supplies, waiting several seconds and then plugging the power supplies back in.
3. You should see the ALOM booting on the serial management console. Hit "Esc" (the Escape key) during the ALOM boot, before or at the point: "Return to Boot Monitor for Handshake".This will cause the system to produce the message: "Return to Boot Monitor for Handshake ESC keypress detected."
4. ALOM will now enter the "ALOM boot escape menu" and the following will be displayed:
ALOM <ESC> Menu
e - Erase ALOM NVRAM.
m - Run POST Menu.
R - Reset ALOM.
r - Return to bootmon.
Your selection:
e - Erase ALOM NVRAM.
m - Run POST Menu.
R - Reset ALOM.
r - Return to bootmon.
Your selection:
5. To clear out the existing password you must choose 'e' to erase the ALOM NVRAM. After using the 'e' option to erase the NVRAM choose the 'r' option to resume the ALOM boot. You will automatically be logged in as user 'admin' with no password and no permissions. The NVRAM settings will be reset to their factory defaults. Note that since this procedure resets the NVRAM settings to their defaults any customization (such as the ALOM network settings) will need to be recreated.
