New Servers in RDP
Hi all
I have a small issue I hope :)
I have a small RDP test setup running, with about 15 servers.
Now I wanna add 8 new servers, and this is when the problem begins.
When I start one of the new servers on boot everything seems fine, it starts PXE, gets IP, UUID and then continue with the download Dos boot disk, and finaly it's ready to use......sort of....
In RDP this new server, has now taken the identity of one of the servers allready in the setup.
It seems like serial number and MAC address are overwritten from the current server.
To begin with, they were in the same subnet, so I thought I would try move them to another VLAN, that didnt help...
Any ideas on why it's doing this?
I will attach a screenshot, that will show you what im seeing.
Thanks in advance for all your help.
/Stefan
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Rack/enclosure/bay
Hi Stefan,
Looking at your JPG it seems that the servers you have are Blade servers. A p-Class enclosure could have 16 Blades. Do you by any chance reuse the bay's for new servers or is it a new enclosure you are using? I would suggest that you set Rack and Enclosure name through the iLO card on one of the servers (you might have done it allready).
The problem could be that you have puled some servers out of the enclosure and just inserted some new servers in the same bays. This will actually confure RDP as it might think you are replacing the server in that Bay with a new one. But this is just a guess since I need to know more about how many enclosures you have.
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/mlogan
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As mlogan has said above,
As mlogan has said above, this is to do with the rack and enclosure names set on the p-class enclosure management modules.
If you go to "View" and "Show Physical Devices" you will get an additional tree view showing the racks, enclosures, and bays.
If there are 2 enclosures with the same rack name and enclosure name, you will get this issue, as Altiris is assuming it's just a new blade in the same slot.
We've seen this very often, especially when commissioning many enclosures worth of blades at once.
And again, as mlogan has said, you need to log on to the ILO on one of the servers and configure the rack and enclosure names - I usually use blade 1 in each enclosure. After that you need to power cycle all the blades so they pick up the new details, delete them out of RDP, and when they boot up and PXE, they should update the Physical View in RDP.
Thanks!
Perfect!
I never played much with the Blade P's but I changed the names now, and now they start popping up in RDP, as new servers.
Thanks for your help!
/Stefan
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