Raid Admin will no longer discover Xserve Raids

We have 6 Xserve Raids and as of the late I can no longer discover all of them using Raid Admin. I have gone through the reset procedure several times on 2 of the 6, and they are still undiscovered.
Supposedly that resets them to DHCP (no fixed address) and they should be seen in "Add System". Does not happen. I can still see one Xserve and monitor it; but the rest are lost. I know discovery is changed to Bonjour.
All volume mount and properly on their corresponding Xserve and appear to be working fine, but I cannot create, monitor, or do anyhting with them. This is really a mess becaue I am trying to add a 7th and can't discover it to initialize it.
Any suggestions ?

I am able to see a new Xserve-Raid on a cross-connect cable connecting the Raid to a Powerbook. I am able to format it and am sure that when connected to Fibre-Optic channel that I will be able to format the Raid Disk. Thanks for your good advise.
I am not sure I will ever be able to see it (the new Xserve Raid) again to monitor or to change, once it is on our real private network. I guess I don't understand why several of the Xserve Raid's have spontaneously dissappeared from the Raid Admin monitor, never to be found again; even when specifying their assigned address (fixed addresses). The controller must have lost the fixed address and Bonjour cannot detect it anymore.
Has anyone had a similar issue ?

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