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I recently upgraded to a new server however the old server is still in place. On one of the client workstations the machine keeps logging in to the old server. I tried to change in via command line with
set /p logonserver=
\\server1
and...

Active Directory is implemented, I can logon to the server both locally and through the domain.  When I start the Server Administrator Application it asks me to enter my user id and password I try the local administrator credientials, my domain...

remove administrative tools from 2008R2 user start menu.

What is the default username and password for the LSI MegaRAID Storage Manager v2.91-06?

We noticed that the HP Systems Management homepage wasn't installed on our server so we installed SNMP, then downloaded the Systems Management driver and then downloaded the Systems Management application all from the HP website.  The software is...

I have an HP ProLiant DL380 G5 Server.  On the front of the server there is a button labeled UID.  Through HP's System Management Homepage I am able to turn the light on or off.  When it is on the light is blue.  What is the point of this...

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2 pcs of HP 146GB 15K 2.5" 6G SFF SAS ENT DP HD disks
4 pcs of 4 x 10/100/1000 RJ-45 NICs (HP NC382I PCI e DP )
BIOS P67 01/30/2011

After installed the ESXi and used SmartStart 8.7 to create the Arrays I wonder which is the proper way...

Hi there,
When I try and start HP System Management Homepage. IE comes up with a Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage.
HP Insight Management Agent Ver 8
HP System Management Homepage ver 2.1.11

I have tried the following
I check...

I have a brand new ML110 G6 server with a BIOS option for RAID. When I enable it and reboot
I don't get an option for RAID setup? I have been reading the documentation and am currently stumped. It's
supposed to be an embedded RAID but I cannot...

We have purchased and New HP DL 360 G5 server and sent it to client location with planning that we will do the installation thru iLO feature.
Please let me know
1. Where i can get 30 days evaluation key for iLO which HP provides absolutely...

I had the drive show an error a few times, and reseated it. Finally it should blinking green as if it was rebuilding but then just stops. All you see is the green activity "arrow" flashing every now and again. I have reseated the drive a few...

Hi,

I have got a DL160 G5 but have misplaced my Smart Start CD.

Can anyone point me to somewhere I can download it.

Thanks

I have HP Proliant Machine, with Linux RHEL 5, all partitions are encrypted.
I have installed the Smartstart 8.30.
I modified the snmpd.conf in /etc/snmp/ to have the following:
dlmod cmaX /usr/lib64/libcmaX64.so
rwcommunity  public ...

I have a bunch of servers hosted in my data center that have DRAC cards in them so I can access and administer them remotely.  Some of the servers have DRAC 3 and some have DRAC 4.

All my DRAC 3 & 4 cards seem to be working fine except for...

Hi,
I have recently purchased an IBM X3500 M3 server with an M5015 raid card.
I have just finished setting up a RAID 1 and RAID5 within the LSI MegaRAID BIOS Config Utility and would like some feedback on whether I have completed my...

Hello everyone!

I am running a Windows Server 2003 SP1 R2.  I cannot run ANY .exes files from this server, whether I try from RDP or a mapped drive, or from a UNC name.  I get the error "Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or...

Dear Experts,

I've recently purchased an IBM x3400 server  M/T:  7837-24U.  The following URL is the spec sheet for my model:
...

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I am having an issue with network teaming on a HP Proliant DL380 G3 server (running Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard), connected to a CISCO C2950 switch.  

Teaming works fine until the HP server is rebooted.  When the server is rebooted,...

I'm setting up a RAID array in my new HP ProLiant ML 350 G5 server and have a choice of options that I'm not sure about:

Maximum Boot Partition
Disable (4GB Maximum)
Enable (8GB Maximum)

Under what circumstances should I choose one over...

I have a Dell PowerEdge 2900 server with a PERC 5/i SCSI disk controller and 6 identical 79GB physical disks.  Disks 0 & 1 are RAID 1 and used for the SBS 2003 "C:", disks 2, 3, 4 are RAID5 used for data "D:", and disk 5 is a hot spare.  While...

We are receiving the following error on one of our file servers, this is in the evnt logs each morning hundreds of times:

6237 x Disk ( EventID=11 )
The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk4....

I have ran HP Insight...

We have an out of warranty Dell PowerEdge 2800 server running Win Server 2003 with the following embedded RAID controller: PERC 4e/Di. Here are a few of its specs:

RAID BIOS H435 Build April 23, 2008
PERC/CERC BIOS Configuration utility U827...

Is it possible and if it is then how do I change the administrator's (or any other user's) password on HP-ILO2; ProLiant DL320 G5 using telnet / SSH?

Thanks,
Yariv

This is my first taste of SBS 2011 after many years working with the wonderful SBS 2003. So far not greatly impressed.

I'm setting up a new HP Proliant ML350 G6 server with SBS 2011. Booted from SmartStart 8.7 CD (only 8.6 was bundled with the...

I need to do a fresh install of Windows Server 2008 R2 on a Dell PowerEdge 2800.  How will I get the Server 2008 R2 DVD installation to see my RAID 1disk?  I know usually I need to somehow load the RAID drivers during or before the Windows...

I have the following setup:

1 Dell Equallogic PS4000 SAN (dual controller)
2 HP Procurve 2910al switches
A variety of servers with software iSCSI initiators

The SAN and switches are setup as per Dell's guide. The 2 switches are connected...

The battery that saves the PERC6 RAID5 configuration went bad on a Dell PowerEdge server and there was no way to rebuild the RAID configuration after replacing the battery. There is a way but the procedures Dell sent didn't work. This meant we...

I have a question regarding Home Folder shares in Windows Server 2008:
I have home folders located in the following directory:  C:\home$\usershare$
(where usershare$ is one particular share and home$ is the parent folder)
When I attempt to...

Recently purchased a new IBM server x3650 am I am unsure the best way to setup the RAID. I want to do RAID 5 but I have read that the OS cannot/shouldn't be put on the same array.

I have several IBM RSAII cards that are used for out-of-band management of IBM xSeries servers.  We need to reset these cards to factory defaults.  IBM has a bootable diskette we can use to reset them, but the existing card firmware is for an...

Hey Experts,

At my new job I was fascinated with the use of the ILO Port on our HP proliant servers. I like how you can remotely start the machine and map to a virtual floppy/cd drive and have that map to ISO images, OS install files, etc....

Hi Everyone.

I'm currently up to the part where I order switches for my iSCSI san. They are 2 x HP SAS starter SANS, giving me 4 nodes. 32 disks total. They are the P4300 Lefthand SAN variety.

Now this is where it gets fun.

I've been...

Hey again,

Here is a general knowledge question.  Looking for an explanation of some sort.  Regarding the configuration of a Windows Time Server, every step-by-step article I have found on the subject has told me to set my "announceflags" to a...

In the PERC/CERC BIOS configuration utility if I clear the adapter configuration will it affect the RAID configuration?

Im getting the Configuration of NVRAM and drives mismatch (Normal mismatch) error. Im curious if I clear the config if...

I have been strugling with this for about 2 months - any help will be appreciated

Server 2003 HP DL360 G5

our backups have started failing - some times they work some times they dont often it gets 10 minutes in and fails. but mostly backups...

Hello,

I have an MSA60 drive array attached to a Windows 2003 server by a P800 Smart Controller and SAS cable.

Yesterday one of the 12 drives on the MSA60 (bay 11) failed.  This was no problem due to the RAID 5 set up on the controller, so...

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I've encountered a problem when we transfer large files,

It can be internally in the server between the Internal HD or to or from the server,

the system crashes and often a bsod appears.

the server is 2008.  and it function as...

I have an HP ML350G6 server that has a P410i raid controller.  I used Passmark's benchmark utility to see how the disk performance was doing and I got some unexpected results.

Sequential Read - 211mb/sec
Sequential Write - 2.5 mb/sec
Random...

Dear Sir

I just got a server HP ML330 G6 model with all the CDs but am facing problem building the Array, on the Smart Start CD there is an option called RAID Array Configuration but there is no RAID in it. Also on the direction it says to...

Could you help me find the way to reset D-Link DP-301P+?
Because there is no reset button on the device.
Thank you.

Previous network admin cannot remember the user name and password for the HP System Management tool on one of our servers.
Is there a default one or how can I reset the exisitng?

I really need to run this tool!

Thanks!

Hi all,

Today morning we've found an server that has somehow crashed over the weekend.

It's an Dell Poweredge 2950 with an Perc5/i adapter and 2 attached 70 GB SAS drives  for raid1,  and 4x 130gb SAS for Raid5.

If we try to boot the...

My company has given me the responsibility to pick a vendor for our share storage.  I have used EMC before and like the products.  I have also read a lot of great things about Netapp and the FAS2040.  I need someone in the industry that could...

Dear Sir,

I have 3 new HP servers Proliant DL 380, each server with 4 NICs. (1GB ethernet).
I want to configure Nic teaming on each server using 2 NICs as one team 2GB.
Please I need a step by step guide on how to configure Nic Teaming on...

Hi.  We have an HP DL 360 G5 that we're trying to install Windows 2008 Server Std x64 without Hyper-V on.  We're using the HP SmartStart CD (tried both versions 8.00 and 8.10) to install Windows.  We choose DVD media and flat file.  When we...

I have a Dell 1950 Server, and it willnot boot up anymore. It throws an error stating
PCIe Training Error: Internal Storage Slot

then it says System Halted!

Anyone know how to fix this or what specific part would do the trick?

I am setting up a Cisco Secure ACS 4.2 server to act as a radius server for EAP (LEAP and PEAP) authentication on Aironet 1230 Access points.  I am using Windows 2003 server for the ACS, and a Windows 2003 Active Directory server.  The AD server...

Hi experts.

We are going to deploy an HP insight management platform and are currently doing some testing.  We use windows and linux servers.  But for testing our HP SIM is on a windows 2003 box and our client is also a windows 2003 machine.
...

I need to install HP Event Noifier Config on a number of HP Proliant servers but can't work out what exactly i should be installing, and from where.  I've some Proliant Essential CDs but can't find anything to install the  HP Management Agents...

I've ran into abit of problems regarding a Sun SPARC Enterprise M5000 server.
The server currently got no OS installed so the system cannot boot, and this is intentional.
However the system see this failure to boot as a fault and reports it to...

Hi Everyone,
I have a client who has a new SBS 2003 server to set up.  That part im fine with.  Problem is they run Sage Line 50 Financial controller on their old sever and want it transfered to the new one.  now Ive had a bit of experiance with...

We have a single Windows 2003 AD domain with computers located at seven physcial locations connected as a WAN by point-to-point T1 lines.

My FSMO server is also a GC and DNS, and is located at the data center, and in addition at each physical...

Hi,

I am trying to setup a Dell PowerEdge R710 server right out of the box.  As soon as I boot up, the fan is very loud and I am getting a iDRAC communications failure.  I can continue by pressing F1 (continue boot) or F2 (system setup) but I...

Our IT department is at best a bastion of laziness. No one is willing to accept responsibility for anything, and this occurs at the CIO level, all the way down through our 40 member staff.  Because of this, we have 150+ servers with little or no...

We need to provision a SAN array. We went to Netapps, EMC and dell and got quotes from each. Now I believe Dell is out of the running as their compellent series appears to be (from what Ive read) inferior to both NetApps and EMC Vnx series.
...

I have several HP servers that have dual gigabit NIC's. They are teamed together on each server, providing 2Gb/s outgoing ethernet connections to the HP Procurve 5400zl being used as a core switch. I think that in order to obtain 2Gb/sec for...

Setup:
I have a Terminal Server Farm with 1 broker\licenses server and 2 terminal servers, in development.  I have a DNS records for the Farm Name and LB being done through the session broker.  I'm trying to control everything through GP.  I...

Ok I want to setup Nic Teaming on a Server and I need to know what the commands are for the port configuration on a Cisco Switch (2950 or 2960).

This could be a team setup for Intel or Broadcom  Nics.  I'm not completely familiar with the...

We have a Dell PowerEdge 2800 server running Win Server 2003 with the following embedded RAID controller: PERC 4e/Di. Here are a few of its specs:

RAID BIOS H435 Build April 23, 2008
PERC/CERC BIOS Configuration utility U827
RAID 5

I have...

I have a HP Proliant DL360G4 which has no display. It does power up and then idle back down and appears to trigger the disks to spin; however, there is no display. Initial thought was that there was a hardware issue with the MB so we replaced the...

Hi all.
We've had this server as a domain controller in a remote branch for a few years now and have had problems with rebooting at random.
The rebooting would log a BSOD error in the event log.
I've looked at the minidump using BSOD View and...

Under device manager sometimes you have under other devices, devices unknown.  What is the best way to figure out what these devices are?  

Hi guys.  I have a production ML350 server that is rebooting 2-3 times a day with HP's ASR feature.  I don't know what's causing it, but here's what I do know:

The system ASR rebooted twice when it was brand new, before it was installed.  It...

I have a single Windows 2008 server, multihomed. Within the past day or two it has begun spamming every 5 minutes 2 Event ID 1006 IDs. The message is:

      The processing of Group Policy failed. Windows could not authenticate to the Active...

Hello,
     We have a Dell PowerEdge 2950 with an amber readout on the LCD that says: e2119 fatal sb mem crc. From what I've read, this indicates "One of the connections in the FBD memory subsystem link on the Southbound side has failed." Does...

I have an EMC Clariion CX4-120 that has been initialized.

1) I can connect, but not log into Navisphere via HTTP
2) I can PPP to the system but not log in via serial
3) I can connect to the maint port with NST but not log in

How can I...

Hi Guys,

I am trying to installing the HP management Agent tool for Windows 2008 64 bits, Hp Proliant DL380 G5. I am getting this error message.

Service 'HP Insight Foundation Agents' (CqMgHost) failed to start. Verify that you have...

I am unable to get the copier to scan to folders on the Win2003 server. To Xp boxes its fine. I am missing something on the server. When you browse to it it denies the user name and password even though it has Admin rights. Am i missing a setting...

Hi,

We have a HP ProLiant DL380 G7 server that has 4x 1TB hard drives and was defaulted to a RAID 5 setup which is what we wanted. We then proceeded with creating a 100GB partition using the HP software tools to install Windows Server 2008 R2...

I am getting a lot of warnings like the one below. Any ideas how to fix it? I am getting it on a ProLiant BL460c G6  installed in an HP C7000 chassis with Windows Server 2008 x64 R2. This is a Hyper-V server with 2 x Quad-Core Intel Xeon, 2267...

I want to migrate our RAID 1 to RAID 5.
1. We've got a smart array P410i Controller. In the manual under migrating a logical drive is explained that this will need a battery buffered write cache.
How can I check if I have one in this server?...

How can I resolve a "Receive failure (Phase B)" error from RightFax 9.3 using a Brooktrout TR1034 family card?

I've checked my configuration against the support docs at captaris.com, but nothing seems to quite match my circumstances. One of...

We are using an HP ProLiant ML350G6 server with an embedded P410i smart array controller with 6x146GB disks. Every so often it reports that a disk has been removed and subsequently reinserted, and that it has to rebuild the physical and logical...

Hi,

We just bought a new Dell server, installed windows server 2008 and all is fine, but in the device manager I notice that there is a "System Interrupt Controller" without any drivers.

Exactly what is a System Interrupt Controller and...

Hello, I have a new server I am setting up for a client. The server is a SuperMicro super server 7046T-H6R. It has an X8DTH-6 motherboard. I have 5 Seagate 6gb/s SAS2, 7200rpm, 500gb Constellation ES hard drives, model# ST3500414SS drives.

I...

my HP ProLiant ML350 G6 shutdown from time to time. Already installed all drivers update from support pack. Also run the diag tool from smart start cd, there error found.
i am wondering if my ups is the issue.... my UPS is APC Back-UPS ES 750...

2 broadcom BCM5716c NetXtreme II Gige adapters  how do i team them up to be a 2 gig pipe???

Dell server running server 2008 64 bit

I need to install the monitoring software for the RAID array on an HP ML110 G5 server. I think I need something like HP Insight Manager, but I want to check a few things before I download it at 500MB!

*I notice it seems to have a SQL Server...

Hi!
We have 1 HP Proliant ML350 G5 server running Windows SBS 2003.
At today morning (5.1.2010) we lost logical drives. I have ran HP Insight diagnostics and HP Array diagnostics and here are the results.
What can i do? please, save me life!

I am having some issues getting one of my QLE2460 HBA to work.  My environment is as follows:

"      Two IBM X3650 (clustered)
"      Each 3650 has two QLE2460 HBAs with each HBA going to a separate McData 4500 fiber switch for redundancy
"      Zones...

Just spun up Hyper-V and five VMs running Wndows Server 2008 R2.  Rock solid so far, everythng just works -except- when I plug in my 1TB IOMEGA eSATA drive the O/S sees it but it remains offline.  I get:
"The disk is offline because of policy...

Ok, I have a new client that has a Dell Poweredge 2600 server with a Dell PERC 3/DC RAID Controller w/128MB Cache.  I noticed that his RAID card doesn't have a battery.  I did some research and found that a battery is optional on this card.  This...

Hi Experts,

I am confused. I have similar problem to what is in http://www.experts-exchange.com/Storage/Misc/Q_24230925.html

But I have 1+0 5raid array. Basically 0 and 1 working together as one logical drive and 2 other drives 2 and 3 are...

I am running Windows 2008 and have install the Dell OM software. Both versions 5.3 and the newly released 5.5. I am having a problem using my administrator account to login.
I have 2 accounts that are members of the administrators group  1...

I have install the HP Insight Manager and want to setup alerts for any h/w problem. HP WBEM and agents has been in stalled on each server. I have already setup the Automatic Event Handlings (Options --> Events --> Automatic Event Handling)....

I have obtained a s/h DL380 G3 with all the trimmings - dual CPU, loads of ram, six disks on the optional add-in SCSI raid controller... and that's the snag. I've downloaded the latest SmartStart and with that I've turned the six disks into a...

I rebooted my HP server and now I keep getting this message every so often.... I am not to sure if its rebooting on its own or not now... But the message states this: System Information Agent: Health: Post errors were detected. One or more...

Hello everyone,

Starting 2 days before this post, my IBM X3650 began having some issues which caused the WINDOWS SERVER 2008 to hang. I would have to manually power dwn the system and boot it back up. I went through the event logs only to find...

We have a HP Proliant DL380 G6 Server which won't boot whenever there is a USB drive connected.  This drive has to be connected as it is used for our backups.

The boot order in the BIOS is set as

1. CD-ROM
2. Hard Disk
3. Gigabit...

Just got an HP ML350 G6 and can't see where to put the cache battery I ordered for the onboard RAID controller. I've found where to plug the wire in (as usual it plugs into the memory module) but I can't see where to locate the battery...

I have a number of HP Proliant DL 380 servers running Windows 2003 Standard Edition and for the past 6 months I have been having a problem with the servers rebooting automatically (ARS). The server is generating System Event ID 57 repeatedly and...

Hi - I recently inherited the support of 3 IBM x3400 Servers in an educational environment. These servers are currently online and active. Each of these servers have IBM ServeRAID 8k - l controllers. 2 of the servers have 2 identical SATA drives...

Hello,

I have a HP Proliant ML350 G5, running a Windows 2008 Standart as a member server on a SBS 2008 network. The issue is that the server shuts down by itself on random basis. In the event log, there are no events logged, also in the...

Hello experts.

Recently, we had a few power outages that really wrecked a lot of equipment where our backup generator didn't kick over and the UPS solution we have simply ran out of juice which caused our 3 VM hosts to hard down.

For the...

We have about 20-30 Cisco 7940 series IP phones and 2-4 Cisco 7960 series IP phones in use at this time. At random the phones will reset, sometimes mid call and other times not. All of the phones are powered through the ethernet cables and the...

So one of my DL380's is reporting a imminent drive failure. 6 146GB Drives, replacement # 432320-001, with one Spare in the array. This is my first failure with this model of box so I want to make sure I'm handling this right.  Considering my...

I have a HP Proliant ML350 G5 server. with a Smart Array E200i controller 128MB

Recently, the server tend to shut down (Unexpectedly) We don't think that it shuts down correctly, and when it happens, the LED's near the power button lights...

I have been having some problems with our server  (HP ProLiant ML570 G3 running SBS 2003) rebooting randomly at night and in the event of trying to pinpoint the issue I first noticed an error in the Event Viewer

Error  source: LSI_SCSI
The...