Clients don't appear in xsan admin

I have had my SAN working for a while now, and when I did the initial set up of clients, I made sure each had only one ethernet port active- the one that attaches the machine to the SAN. Once the clients were configured, and the Volume mounted, I re-enabled a second ethernet port so the users could access the internet, etc.
Now none of those clients show up in XSAN admin, although one does appear with it's IP address of the other subnet (not the metadata subnet).
The Volume is still mounted on these clients, though.
How can I 'bring them back' so I can keep track of things from the one machine I have XSAN admin installed on?

You want to see the Public IPs of your clients in XSAN admin. XSAN admin uses DNS over the public network to "find" the clients. Inproperly configured DNS is usually the culprit when XSAN admin takes a long time to bring up list of clients
Hope this helps.

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I am not able to see both my client computers on the Xsan admin page, and there are some strange things happening.
-My setup consists of two G5 computers (Clients), one Xserve G5 (Metadata Controller), a fiber channel switch, and an Xserve RAID (with 5 drives on the first controller partitioned RAID 0 for a total of 1.8 TB of storage space, and 2 drives on the second controller partitioned RAID 1 for a total of 370 GB to be the controller data).
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I know this may sound a little confusing, but I can feel I am very close in getting this to work. Any help would be much appreciated.
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For anyone who has read this, thank you.
I finally managed to get all the clients to work together.
I was having a firewall issue, where my customized firewall settings were preventing communication on one of the critical ports that Xsan uses to talk to the components. All I had to do was flush the firewall and all was back to normal.

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I'm a new staff for XSAN 2.2 , I have a ptoblem is XSAN Admin not show a Volume but Show a LUNs. and then I click Mount it will Quit a Window.
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I have 2 servers with xsan 2.1.1 with Mac Os 10.5.6 Server, and I created four volumes in xsan2, and one of them dont saw in one of the servers. The log says:
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Sounds like you have a phantom mount record. This is when a folder remains after the unmount. All subsequent mounts result in failure because the mount point is technically still there. To resolve this, unmount all SAN volumes from all clients and servers. Then shutdown your San volumes (this is just a safety precaution). With everything shut down, use Terminal to navigate to the /Volumes directory on the troublesome system. Once there, you will likely find an empty mount record with the offending name. Delete or move the folder. Then fire up your SAN and mount all your volumes.
Obviously, you can do all this without stopping the SAN. However, that is the safer way, especially if you are experiencing something other than I described.
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Computer Listed in Bold in Setup of Xsan Admin

I have an Xsan (v1.4.2) with four (4) computers. One of these computers is the original MDC, and is named Thirty-Six. Another computer is named Xsan-PMDC, and is now the primary MDC (via cvadmin's fail <Volume_Name>). Even though Xsan-PMDC is now the MDC, the computer that used to be the MDC (Thirty-Six) is listed in bold in Xsan Admin-->Creative (name of SAN component)--> Setup-->Computers. I have been told that the computer listed in bold is the controller I am connecting to.
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I am sure you have figured it out by now, but in case you haven't try connecting to the Xsan controller in charge to run Xsan admin directly, or else try different Xsan clients.

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Two similar problems...
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Some clients do not appear at all in XSAN Admin, yet they are working happily with mounted, fully functioning volumes. All well and good, but we can't mount or unmount volumes.
Second:
Within XSAN Admin, some clients appear in the Setup/Computers list with a green blob, yet they do not appear at volume level. So whilst at some level the system is aware of the client, again they cannot mount or unmount volumes.
Refreshing the list doesn't help. Nor does completely removing the SAN from the list and re-adding it. Running XSAN Admin from the MDC or any client gives the same result.
Is there a lower level way of forcing a refresh that might re-acquaint the system with what actually connected to it?
Any ideas gratefully received!
Message was edited by: VTmaint
Oh, and rebooting an invisible or partially visible client doesn't make any difference either!

I was just in contact with Apple support about this issue. Turns out it's a bug. The workaround is log in as an admin on the client system and issue this command from Terminal:
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<password>
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We have an interesting problem with our xsan and cannot figure out the answer. Perhaps someone can help?
We have 2 Intel Xserve MDCs and 2 G5 Xserve ODs, running 10.5.1 server and xsan 1.4.2
Our clients are a mix of G5s running 10.4.11 and Intels running 10.5.1, also with xsan 1.4.2
We have a public IP range of 10.160.16.x to 10.160.20.255 and a private metadata IP range of 10.160.21.x
All xsan clients (including the OD servers) have a public and a private ethernet connection, with the private at the top.
The 2 MDCs have only a private metadata connection. Our problem is this...
when we view clients in xsan admin, the Leopard client's public IP address is listed with a red ball next to it.
We cannot authenticate this client as the MDC has no public IP connection. How is this IP address being seen by the MDC? Other Leopard clients authenticate without a problem, the only difference being that their public IP address is 10.160.20.x. The clients that show up as red are 10.160.19.x and 10.160.16.x ranges.
Removing the public IP connection from this Leopard client will cure the problem and we can then authenticate, obviously over the private ethernet connection, however as soon as the client is booted with the public connected again, the same thing happens.
From the information given above, can anybody spot anything that is being done incorrectly?
Thanks.

Hi Bob, thanks for the reply.
Answers to your questions as follows.
1. Public IP ranges between 10.160.16.x through to 10.160.20.254
2. We have the metadata (Private) on top, not public, as per Apples guide.
3. It seems to be any Leopard client that is not on the 10.160.20.x range of public IP address. (The MDCs were on 10.160.20.x addresses before we removed them). Leopard clients are currently okay if they are on the 10.160.20.x range of public IP addresses.
4. We have tried running xsan admin from other machines and the problem still exists.
5. Both IP addresses of the MDCs are 10.160.21.48 and 10.160.21.49
Thanks
Richard

No contacts in Lync 2013 client and not appearing in others contact lists

Hello all,
I hope someone might be able to help out with this problem, I've been at it for weeks with no luck. I've migrated from Lync 2010 to 2013. All users have been successfully migrated and everything is working for them, except for one user (which i me unfortunately).
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Problem in authenticate computers using XSAN admin

hi, i have XSAN 2.2 and i want to destroy it and create a new one , i have 2 xserve and 3 mac PC and all of them can ping on each other ....
when i connect to xserve 1 and open XSAN admin i choose connect to existing XSAN , then from the overview i choose destroy XSAN but i gives me error message that all computers must be connected to xsan to can destroy it so, i go to computers tab and select then i found the 3- computers , i select all of them and press continue i wrote username and password (use same authentication information for all added computers) then i wrote the username and password (which is the same for an admin on all computers) but it gave me error message
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i do not know why the authentication failed although all the computers have the same admin name and password??!!!
can anyone help me please ....

hi, i have XSAN 2.2 and i want to destroy it and create a new one , i have 2 xserve and 3 mac PC and all of them can ping on each other ....
when i connect to xserve 1 and open XSAN admin i choose connect to existing XSAN , then from the overview i choose destroy XSAN but i gives me error message that all computers must be connected to xsan to can destroy it so, i go to computers tab and select then i found the 3- computers , i select all of them and press continue i wrote username and password (use same authentication information for all added computers) then i wrote the username and password (which is the same for an admin on all computers) but it gave me error message
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Hello
I have a big problem with my Xsan Admin.
Yesterday by mistake my configuration of xsan admin from Application
Support are gone.
Only config files from /Library/Filesystems/Xsan/config survive, but
without one client in config.plist
Now i cant mount any clients or controllers from Xsan Admin, even when
i set to connect to existing san.
From terminal i run two volumes locally on MDC.
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fuctionally. Only thing i can do now, i can mount on client volumes
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Hi there,
With build 3.5.177 almost all of the issues you described are solved. The eDirectory integration part was greatly improved - I also suffered the issues you described in the previous releases, and you had to re-create the directory configuration in order for the new eDir objects to show up. Novell client is also not required anymore - pure LDAP communication.
As for encryption, I understand your pain as I passed for the same situation. The encryption filter driver is now improved and you'll not notice any impact on performance once you enabled it. Previous requirement for encrypting only non-system volume was almost unpracticable as no customer that I know of had more than one partition on their laptops.
In summary, I think it's worth to take a look.
We are here to help if any issue arises.
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Daniel
>>>
From: chalmerst<[email protected]>
To:novell.support.zenworks.endpoint-security-management
Date: 5/15/2009 5:56 AM
Subject: Re: Edir OU Objects Don't appear in Management Console
dspinatto;1691558 Wrote:
> There is a new version 3.5.160 available for download at 'NOVELL:
> Downloads - Novell ZENworks Endpoint Security Management 3.5 IR5'
> (http://download.novell.com/Download?...d=D2kn-mCL_3k~)
>
> I couldn't find anything related to eDir OU's in the Known Issues
> section of the Readme
> http://www.novell.com/documentation/...me_zesm35.html,
> however maybe you can try with this newer version if it repeats.
>
> BTW, does the group shows up in the MC?
> Have you tried logging in as a user that is member of that group and
> then refresh the console to see it the group and the OU structure shows
> up?
>
> Good luck,
> Daniel
>
> >>>
> From: chalmerst<[email protected]>
> To:novell.support.zenworks.endpoint-security-management
> Date: 12/2/2008 9:56 AM
> Subject: Edir OU Objects Don't appear in Management Console
>
> ZEN ESM Ver 3.5.0.154
>
> I have created OU in Console One and created a Group so I can publish
> Policies to the group to reduce administration. The OU does not show
> up
> in the management console. I have tried rebooting, syncronising and
> loggin into the OU as well, with no luck.
>
>
> --
> chalmerst
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Sorry it's been a while but gave up after Novell tech sup informed me
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Groups that are created before the install of ESM show up and can be
published to, however, after ESM is installed if you create OU in NDS it
never shows up. Tech supp said this was an issue they hoped to resolve
in future releases. Besides this issue the data encyption had problems
as well, once the policy was published with data encryption dir the PC
utilistation went through the roof, again a bug confirmed by Novell.
There answer to this was a change that created bigger problems for our
company, you could only publish encrypted data dir to non system
volumes, however all our PCs in our company only have one partition.
Too big a job to create additional partitions to support this change.
I was using 3.5 ir5 when I experienced these issues.
I am querying this with novell since there seems to be an IR6 version
now. I doesn't show up on our product list yet. When it does I have
been tasked with testing it again to see if the bugs are out of it.
chalmerst
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When I forward an email from my Mac Mail, the body of the email I just forwarded shows as an attachment in the recipients outlook. Is there a way to change this so my clients don't have to open an attachment to read something that I forwarded to them?

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