I have done the same process but not in entirely similar circumstances. The importand thing is that the new partition has the same drive letter as the old one. After that if all data is mirrored you should be ok.

Of course you should make sure that before you do this process that you turn the DS services OFF and that all data has been backe dup and able to be restored if needed.

Aspen,

Many thanks for your reply. We will accomplish this task on the weekend adn I will update this post.

Thanks

Hi All,

So it's done. This morning I came in and restarted all DS Services on the server in question. Then, I performed multiple tests on the finctionality of DS with success.
However, an issue has come up when starting the PXE Configuration Utility I receive the following error message:
"The PXE Manager has not connected with the DS Server..." I checked AKB #2165 and followed the instructions there..There was nothing changed on the server..The pxemanager.ini is the same as the one prior to the mogration. Clients are still booted to PXE and can be rolled out. Both services Ds DB Manager and PXE Manager are up and running..However, there is no way to open the PXE Configuration Utility..!!

Does anybody have an idea as how to correct this issue?y At the moment we do not intend to reinstall the PXe Manager as it worked fine sofar, and, we do not want to recreate the pxe boot files again.

Thank you for your help.

 Hi,

Yeah -the PXE Manager can be a bit fickle. Could you post the PXE Manager logs? The location can vary depending on your configuration, but they are typically in the PXE folder on the express share, PXELog_Manager.txt

Kind Regards,
Ian./

Hi Ian,

Thank you for your feedback. The last enteries of the aforementioned log file are included in this post. There is no further Information in this log.

==
E [13:55:38 11/16] (4652):   Session ID: 1258376138
E [13:55:38 11/16] (4652):   DSServerIP: x.x.x.x
E [13:55:38 11/16] (4652): PXEManagerIP: x.x.x.x
E [13:59:56 11/16] (4536):   Session ID: 1258376396
E [13:59:56 11/16] (4536):   DSServerIP: x.x.x.x
E [13:59:56 11/16] (4536): PXEManagerIP: x.x.x.x
===
As I can see these entries are not really informative. The IP addresses are correct...

Thanks.

 OK -we need to increase you logging level from Errors only to Information. On your server do the following,

1. Stop the Altiris PXE Manager Service
2. Locate the PxeManager.ini
3. Find the loging entry for the PXE Manager Log and ensure the OutPutThreshold is set to 3 (will probably be 1 currently) as below,
   

   PxeManagerLog_Enabled=True
   PxeManagerLog_OutputThreshold=3
   PxeManagerLog_FileName="PxeLog_Manager.Txt"

4. Start the PXE Manger Service

If you now post your new log, then this might contain something which can help troubleshoot further.

Kind Regards,
Ian./

Hi Ian,

Thank you for your help. I have increased the logging level for PXE and received the included message on the file.
There is an authetication failure, which indicates a serverkey or\and MMACESSKEY issue. 
Here are the results in the log file when I start the PXE Config Utility:
---------------------------
Request=Authenticate
Type=PxeManager
CipherText=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
=========== End Request =========
I [13:22:53 11/17] (7828): Message Received: (91:1)
========== Begin Message ========
Processing=Authenticate
=========== End Message =========
I [13:22:53 11/17] (7828): Message Received: (92:1)
========== Begin Message ========
Reply=Authenticate
CipherText=
Result=Failure
End Message
=================================================
 
 

Hi Ian,

I appreciate your help. As Ds serves more than 4000 clients we have already announced that we will perform maintenance work on DS by the end of this week. I will keep you updated.

Kind Regards, 

I have same problem. I added new array to server (TMP to copy data there). After restart PXE was down but it was possible to start that.
I removed original array and now I have same problem.

Sync keys does not help...

regards,
Syc

mapped original disk as W:

stop all Altiris* services

restore folder D:\Altiris\eXpress\Deployment Server\PXE from W:\Altiris\eXpress\Deployment Server\PXE

PxeKeyMatch.exe to sync

start all Altiris services but not PXE

PXEManager.ini ->  copy key there from MMAccessKey.ini

start PXE Mananger

start PXE Helper