| You cannot initiate a backup or restore of the
management software image. |
- You must have the proper privileges for your userid role (smadmin)
to backup or restore the software. Request that your system administrator
give you the authority to backup and restore. See Roles for more information about roles.
- Only on backup or restore task can be run at a time. Make sure
that no other users are backing up or restoring the software image
before you start a backup or restore operation.
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| You cannot backup a sofware image to, or restore
a backup image from, a USB device. |
Make sure that a USB device is inserted in the
management node. From a CLI prompt, you can use the lsmediadev command
to see if a USB device is installed. See Backing up and restoring the management software for more information about backing
up or restoring software by using a USB device or a secure FTP server. |
| You cannot backup a software image to, or restore
a backup image from, a secure FTP server (SFTP). A message is displayed. |
Make sure that you have access to the remote
SFTP server. See Backing up and restoring the management software for more information about backing up or restoring
software by using a USB device or a secure FTP server. |
| After you restored an management software image
and collected inventory on the storage farm managed endpoint without
errors, you experience storage fabric errors and the management software incorrectly
displays multiple endpoints for image repositories and virtual appliances. |
To solve the problems, complete the following
steps:- From the management software web
interface, click the Chassis Manager tab and make sure that the chassis
status is Managed.
- Click ; then, after the Resource Explorer
page opens, click All Systems. Make sure that
all of the discovered endpoints are displayed with an Access status
of OK (and not the status Not Trusted).
- Verify your network configuration from the SMIA Configuration
Tool:
- From the Home page, click the Applications tab;
then, make sure that the SMIA Configuration Tool is running.
Note: If
you have external versions of the SMIA Configuration Tool, make sure
that those are also running and can be pinged from the management
node.
- From the Applications tab, click Launch administration
console and log in to the SMIA Configuration Tool.
- In the SMIA Configuration Tool, click the CIMOM tab
and make sure that the CIMOM settings are correct.
- Click the Home tab; then, click the Fabric
Discovery link. Make sure that all of the required network
switches are discovered, with a green check mark that indicates proper
SNMP trap communication.
- Use the management software command-line interface (CLI) to check
data sources, remove an Fabric Data Source object, rediscover the
object, and ping the operating system endpoints that host image repositories:
- From the management software CLI,
use the lsdatasource command to verify that
all of the expected data sources are present, and an OID is listed
for each network device.
- Use the rmdatasource to remove the Fabric Data
Source object, as shown in the following example:
smcli rmdatasource -c fabric -i <IPv6>
where
the IPv6 is the address for Fabric Data Source
3.
- Use the mkdatasource to rediscover the Fabric
Data Source object, as shown in the following example: smcli
mkdatasource -c fabric -t https <IPv6> -p 25989
-u USERID -w Passw0rd -n /interop
where IPv6 is
the address for Fabric Data Source 3, and USERID and Passw0rd are
the management software administrator
user name and password.
- Use the pingsys command to ping the each of
the operating system endpoints that host image repositories.
- Use the management software web
interface to view operating-system endpoint access states and collect
inventory:
- Open the Resource Explorer page.
- Click All Systems; then, make sure that
all of the operating system endpoints that host image repositories
are displayed with an Access status of OK.
- Select the operating system and farm endpoints from the Resource
Explorer table; then, click .
- After inventory has been collected, check the image repositories
and virtual appliances in VMControl:
- From the VMControl summary page, click the Virtual
Appliances tab.
- Under Where to deploy:, click the <number> Image
repositories link, where <number> is
the number of image repositories in your environment. The Image Repositories
page opens.
- Select each image repository; then, click . Make sure that the server endpoint that hosts each
image repository is displayed with an Access status of OK.
- With each image repository still selected, click . Make sure that the server
endpoint that hosts each image repository is displayed with an Access
status of OK.
If you find that the server access
for an image repository is OK, but the image container is missing,
then an image repository endpoint remains, even though it was deleted
after the management software backup was created. The errant image
repository endpoint must be deleted manually. Attention: Make
sure that you do not remove the image repository that still has one
or more virtual appliances.
- Make sure that each virtual appliance is associated with its captured
disk in the storage device.
Note: You can verify the Captured SCS
Virtual Appliances for the storage device from the management software web
interface. For example, if your storage device is an IBM Flex
System V7000 Storage Node,
click Launch IBM Flex System V7000, log in
to the V7000 Storage Node management GUI, and click Volumes.
For other storage devices, go to the Plug-ins tab and click Systems
and Volumes under Storage Management.
- From the Virtual Appliances tab, under What to deploy:,
click the <number> Virtual appliances link,
where <number> is the number of virtual appliances
in your environment. The Virtual Appliances page opens.
- Select each virtual appliance; then, click .
- Compare the virtual appliance software images with the volumes
listed for the storage device. Any virtual appliance that does not
have an associated software image must be removed manually; the virtual
appliance might have been deleted after the management software backup
was created, but still exists in the management software database.
After you remove the errant virtual appliance endpoint, the management
software reflects the current state of your environment.
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