No joy I'm afraid - tried that.

Go to the debug page and find:

"Reset CIMOM state and restart CIMOM"

click this to restart CIMOM - this is the process that drives the GUI.

glenk

Probably best to open a service call with EMC.

glenk

did you try rebooting each sp one by one?

There may or may not be data, but it isn't important (not in production at this time).

I have tried with the SATA enclosure disconnected, doesn't seem to make a difference.

have you defined hot spares on the array, possibly on ATA enclosures?

(you can define ata hot spares though)

I'm still playing tag with my Dell EMC rep - if we cannot get it resolved then I'll try to talk EMC into helping me next!

just try to boot with first enclosure and just first 5 disks (the ones with stickers asking not to remove them)

I have booted with the first enclosure (just the enclosure OS disks) - the SPs all post and start (as they do when fully connected) - but the array is still [Unknown] via Navisphere and the event logs items are still present.

So I know the SPs are in working order (at least from a boot perspective). But they can't seem to talk to the array in any meaningful fashion.

Cannot get anywhere to define spares via the Navisphere GUI and if there is a way through the hardware I haven't found it to try yet.

since you are in arizona, would you be able to call EMC directly? i m not sure if you can do that since you purchased system through DELL.

Yup! Even removed SPs to see if that was causing a problem.

After working with Dell EMC for a bit (still not resolved though) I am relatively certain we have the enclosure back to factory default, but no joy.

Interestingly, checking via emcremote it shows that the atapi and Hpt366 drivers are failing to load. Given that I have a SATA enclosure I'm wondering if that is why I can't see the array?

Here are my latest notes/discoveries:
Event log - Application



Source: Navisphere Agent

Type: Error

Category: (1234)



Description:



Command: Get Array; Exception: Could not get fru of disk's hot spare;

File: D:\views\hackswa_2003q1_x1_al_fr.stg\catmerge\mgmt\FlareCom\FlareData.cpp; Line: 00002548



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Event log - System



Source: Service Control Manager

Type: Error

Category: none



Description:



The following boot-start or system-start drivers failed to load:

atapi

Hpt366



Both of these drivers are for ATA hard drives, perhaps that is why we cannot see the storage array - no ATA support when needed?



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Guess: I think the applog error is why /setup can¿t run ¿ any time it attempts to gather info it blows chunks.

Guess: Notice that the ATA drivers aren¿t loading? Since I have a ATA enclosure perhaps this is why we can¿t see it?



Question: Are there any documents there that talk about steps needed to configure the WinNT so it can see ATA enclosures after imaging perhaps?



Lastly, I fiddled around with navicli.



navicli -h 128.196.59.33 getall

Agent Rev: 6.4.0 (5.2)

Name: K10

Desc:

Node: A-APM00032300772



...and doesn't return anything else, like it should!



A bunch of other command attempts return this error:

Cannot access device



Guess: Sounds like my SPs are imaging and booting fine, but they can¿t see the ATA enclosure?


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Input welcome!

will you be able to paste sp boot events in here?

when you talked to dell rep, did they re-image the array? if not ask them to do that...that would bring the array to complete default setting (it wont loose the data afik, just write clean code on the boot disks)

and then boot with just first 5 disks in place....array should respond to it normally..

before that, can you connect to any sp via hyperterminal and null modem cable and reboot that sp? that would give you some important information...if any hardware is prohibiting the array, that would generally come up here

is there any data on ATA enclosure?
will you be able to disconnect the enclosure and boot the array just with minimum required DAE?