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Unisys/Clariion OSR6700 Serial cable ?

Asked by: RobyN72

Hi,
I need to connect in serial mode to my Unisys / Clariion OSR6700, but this storage uses a dedicated serial cable (DB9 pin to RJ11). Did someone knows this cable wiring scheme ??

Help me please.

Thanks

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by: meyersdPosted on 2009-11-03 at 15:35:24ID: 25735079

Good heavens! I'd have thought they were long gone (I'm ex-Unisys).

That's the connection for the Standby Power Supply you've got there. The console connection on that array was a DB-9 and uses a null-modem cable.

The only other console cable used was an RJ45 at the array end and a DB-9 for the computer:

RJ45 DB9

RJ45 DB9F
1   -  8
2   -  6
3   -  5
4   -  2
5   -  3
6   -  1
7   -  4
8   -  7
Shield  - Shield

On the RJ45, pins are numbered 8-1 from left to right if you're looking at the plug with the gold fingers facing up and the cable pointing to you (end of plug pointing away from you).

 

by: RobyN72Posted on 2009-11-03 at 17:38:10ID: 25735682

Hi, on SPA and SPB I see only RJ11 (from SPA/B to SPS) and another RJ11 from SPS to serial port. I don't find any other port...
Thanks

 

by: meyersdPosted on 2009-11-03 at 18:27:16ID: 25735885

Can you take a photo of the rear of the system and post it please? That doesn't fit with my recollections of the array (which is now a few years old, I must admit).

 

by: meyersdPosted on 2009-11-03 at 18:36:41ID: 25735923

WHat exactly are you trying to achieve? The console is only active during boot time when you can get into the FLARE and run some diagnostics (IIRC). There are no IP addresses ion the storage processors, unlike later arrays.

 

by: meyersdPosted on 2009-11-03 at 19:43:56ID: 25736212

I've been reviewing some old documentation - each storage processor should have a pair of female DB-9 fibre channel connectors and a pair of serial DB-9 connectors - one for the SPS, the other for the console.

The problem I'm striking is that the array is so old that much of the documentation is no longer available.

What's the problem with the system?

 

by: RobyN72Posted on 2009-11-05 at 00:19:12ID: 25747551

I send 2 images: one of SP and the other of SPS.  There's no RJ45 or DB9 console plug...

 

by: RobyN72Posted on 2009-11-05 at 00:21:54ID: 25747559

The second image

 

by: meyersdPosted on 2009-11-05 at 13:39:16ID: 25754334

Those comm ports on the SPS are used by engineering - there is nothing useful you can do with them. The other photo you've posted is of an LCC (Link Control Card) - part of an expansion DAE (Disk Array Enclosure). Again, the comm port is used by engineering and there's nothing useful you can do with it.

What are you trying to do? Are you trying to configure the array? Or is there a problem with it?

 

by: RobyN72Posted on 2009-11-06 at 02:34:34ID: 25757970

This Array needs to be configured and I need to connect to SP trough COM port using Agent Configurator (specifying COMx in Device Tab).

 

by: RobyN72Posted on 2009-11-06 at 03:02:08ID: 25758095

Using oscilloscope I found a functional cabling. RJ11 serial cable transports 2 serial connections: one for SPS and the other for Serial Console.
Using this wiring schema, Agent configurator connects to SP and Navisphere Manager is now able to configure OSR6700.
Anyway thanks for your support.


 

by: meyersdPosted on 2009-11-08 at 02:17:24ID: 25770020

That's VERY peculiar. The model of CLARiiON you have is configured via the fibre channel interfaces, not serial....

 

by: RobyN72Posted on 2009-11-08 at 07:48:59ID: 25770787

Now it's working fine; normally the OSR6700 is configured and controlled through FC interfaces but if you lost the last binding to DG, you lost all the storage and you can only recover using the COM port by Navisphere Agent or Navicli applications.  

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