Importing Foreign Configuration in iDRAC9

by Sangeetha | Aug 24, 2024 | Uncategorized

Steps:

Log in to iDRAC and navigate to the “Storage” section, then select the “Controllers” tab.

Locate your controller and expand the dropdown menu under “Actions“. Choose “Foreign Configuration“.

A list of disks with detected unfamiliar configurations will be displayed. Select “Import Foreign Configuration“.

Choose when to apply the action. Click “Apply Now“.

A task will be created, which you can monitor in the “Job Queue“.

The task may not complete instantly; you’ll need to wait until it reaches 100%. Once it’s completed, the configuration will be imported.

Dell PowerEdge VRTXCritical Alert on Chassis

by Sangeetha | Aug 24, 2024 | Uncategorized

Managing VRTXCritical alerts on a Dell PowerEdge VRTX chassis is essential for ensuring optimal performance and reliability of your infrastructure. This guide will provide insights into recognizing, diagnosing, and addressing critical alerts, helping you maintain system stability and minimize downtime.

Ticket logged for Server alert

 Analysis report:-

 The second  controller shows a failure

1^st analysis and POA

Took the remote session and logged in with the chassis console. Find an option to enable a failed controller.

There is no option to enable or disable it on the controller tab

Raised controller for a standby

2^nd analysis and POA

CMC firmware2.1 and the latest available is 3.41

After updating the firmware issue was resolved.

For more information reach out to our Technical team.

Importing Foreign Configuration Using Web Interface (iDRAC7 and iDRAC8)

by Sangeetha | Aug 24, 2024 | Uncategorized

How-To Generate SP Collect Data from Unisphere

by Sangeetha | Aug 16, 2024 | Uncategorized

How-To Generate SP Collect Data from Unisphere

–         Login to the Unisphere console

–         Select the array you want to collect data from

–         Click on the “System” tab, then click on “Generate Diagnostic Flies – SPA” under the “Diagnostic Files” section on the right.

–          Click YES to generate the SP Collect Data for SPA

–         Click on “OK” to confirm the success of the process

–         Now click on “Generate Diagnostic Files – SPB” under the “Diagnostic Files” section on the right.

–         Click YES to generate the SP Collect Data for SPB

–         Click on “OK” to confirm the success of the process

–         Click on “Get Diagnostic Files – SPA”

–         The SP A – File Transfer Manager Window will appear.

• 1^st– sort the files by date with the most recent date at the top by clicking the top of the “Date” column.
• 2^nd– Highlight the “zip” file.  (Depending on your array – your file may not start with “APM” but with a different set of letter.  Regardless, the rest of the file name will be followed by a series of numbers_SPA_date_time)
• 3^rd– Select your destination directory where you want the file saved to.  (Use something easy to find like c:\)
• 4^th– Click the “Transfer” button below the list of files

–         Click on YES to confirm you want to transfer the file.

–         In the “Transfer Status” window – look and wait for the file transfer to report successful. (This may take a minute or so)  Once the transfer is successful click OK.

–         Click on “Get Diagnostic Files – SPB”

–         The SP B – File Transfer Manager Window will appear.

• 1^st– sort the files by date with the most recent date at the top by clicking the top of the “Date” column.
• 2^nd– Highlight the “zip” file.  (Depending on your array – your file may not start with “APM” but with a different set of letter.  Regardless, the rest of the file name will be followed by a series of numbers_SPB_date_time)
• 3^rd– Select your destination directory where you want the file saved to.  (Use something easy to find like c:\)
• 4^th– Click the “Transfer” button below the list of files

–         Click on YES to confirm you want to transfer the file.

–         In the “Transfer Status” window – look and wait for the file transfer to report successful. (This may take a minute or so)  Once the transfer is successful click OK.

–         Open up Windows Explorer or whatever file manager you use and go to the destination directory where you downloaded the files to.  Verify the SPA and SPB .zip files are there.

How to Run SP Collect on EMC CLARiiON CX4 Storage Array

by Sangeetha | Aug 16, 2024 | Uncategorized

How to Run SP Collect on EMC CLARiiON CX4 Storage Array

SPCollect From Navisphere

Step 01: Login to Navisphere

You can login to Navisphere GUI either from SP-A or SP-B ip-address. Make sure to enter the appropriate username and password in this screen to login.

Step 2. SP Collect Menu for SP-A

From the Storage Tab, click on “+” to expand “Local Domain”, then click on “+” in front of the serial number of the array to expand it further.
Now, select “SP A” (Storage Processor A) and right mouse click, which will display a pop-up menu. In the pop-up menu click on “SP Collect”

Step 3: Execute SP Collect for SP-A

This will show a confirmation dialogue with question “Do you want to run SP Collect script now?”. Click on “YES” to continue here.
Depending on the size of your array, and other configuration information on your array, this might take some time to finish. But in most cases, it should finish within a minute.
Once it is done, it will display a success message. Click “OK” on this screen.

Step 4: Go to File Transfer Manager for SP-A

Go back to the tree, and select the “SP A”, and right mouse click, which will display a pop-up menu. In the pop-up menu click on “File Transfer Manager”.

Step 5: Get SP Collect Zip File for SP-A

This will display the following File Transfer Manager screen for storage processor A. The name of the SP Collect file will be in the following format:

{serial number of the array}_SPA_{date and time}_data.zip

For example:

APM000444555777_SPA_2013-10-05_23-43-27_1cc1d0_data.zip

If you’ve run SP Collect multiple times before, you’ll see multiple zip files. Make sure you select the correct file from his list. To make it easier, you can also click on the “Date” column, which will sort by date.
If you like to change the location on the local machine where you need the files to be transferred, click on “Browse” next to “Destination Directory” on the top.
Once you’ve selected the correct SP collect zip file, and a destination directory, click on “Transfer” button, which will transfer the zip file from the array to your local machine.

Before transferring it will give the following warning message. Click on “Yes” to continue.
Once the transfer begins, you can see the status in the “Transfer Status” section.

Step 6: Repeat the Above for SP-B

Anytime you execute SP Collect, you should do it for both the storage processors (i.e SP A and SP B ).
So, repeat all of the above steps for “SP B” (Storage processor B). But, this time, choose “SP B” in the navigation tree. “SP B” will be right below “SP A” in the navigation tree.
After you are done, you should now have two zip files

Resetting Brocade Silk Worm 200E SAN Switch to Factory Settings: A Step-by-Step Guide

by Sangeetha | Aug 16, 2024 | Uncategorized

This Article describes the procedure to do Factory defaults in Brocade Silk Worm 200E SAN Switch.

Step-by-Step Procedure

Perform these steps in order to do factory defaults Brocade Silkworm 200E SAN Switch through console port of switch:

1. Perform these steps in order to establish a console session to switch:Connect one of the supplied DB-9-to-DB-9 adapters to the PC serial (COM#) port.
   • Connect one of the supplied DB-9-to-DB-9 adapters to the PC serial (COM#) port.
   • Connect the other end of the supplied DB-9 connector to the RS-232 management port on the switch.

Note: The RS-232 management port is labelled CONSOLE.

• • Launch HyperTerminal on the PC.

Terminal emulation software enables communication between the storage router and your PC during setup and configuration. The terminal emulation software is frequently a PC application such as HyperTerminal or Putty.

• • Choose these settings:
    • Bits per second: 9600
    • Data bits: 8
    • Parity: None
    • Stop bits: 1
    • Flow control: None

2. Reboot the switch with Power reset and login as admin (default Password: password).

• Clearing configuration.
  1. SAN-switch#switchdisable
  2. SAN-switch#cfgdisable
  3. SAN-switch#cfgclear
  4. SAN-switch#cfgsave
  5. SAN-switch#configDefault
  6. SAN-switch#switchenable
  7. SAN-switch# reboot

Check the configuration.

• SAN-switch#cfgshow
• SAN-switch#zoneshow