RAID - cannot connect Raid Admin

For whatever reason my network settings got altered today, and ever since i have been unable to see the Xserve raid in Raid Admin. I have put the ethernet settings back to the same settings it had originally but no luck.
No lights of any colour, and a message saying connection error. So i restarted, and now there is nothing in my Raid Admin at all.I have the option to Add System...but i have no clue about the info that is required!
Any suggestions please?
adam

Well, if you know the IP addresses, you can enter this in the Add System field.
If you don't, and it has dhcp enabled on one of the controllers, you cn connect with a direct cable.
If both negative, and you know at least the IP range, you can do a ping sweep and find the address.
Hope this helps
Donald

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... depending on the meaning of "seriously"!
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William, thanks for your response, comments inline below:
I have not personally experienced any of the first 3
issues you note. And I've run RAID Admin on 30-40
different systems, and monitored 100+ RAIDs, over the
past 3 years.
... it is good to hear a general level of satisfaction...
Are you experiencing this on just one system --
have you ever tried another machine?
What do you mean? We have one X Serve, and one RAID, and that's the one we need to admin. How would we introduce another machine into the scenario?
I'd suggest that your Java installation has
serious issues.
Why would you suggest that? As I noted, the Java-suspected issue was not on the machine that I reported the rest of the problems on. It simple obliges us not to use RAID Admin remotely (and conveniently) since all the remote machines are up to date with updates including QT.
Also note, it's impossible for RAID Admin to have a
leak. Java has a garbage collector. Therefore, if
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Admin problem.
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which details the updates and what they're good for:
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Where on that page are you seeing info that addresses 4 and 5? This is in fact the one page I was refering to: it advertises the feature, but where are the docs?
I'd suggest you figure out what's wrong
with your Java installation.
No reason to suspect Java on the server, where we are running RAID Admin.
I posted some command-line options which will
give diagnostic output in other threads,
... that could be useful, could you be more specific about where you posted them, and do they cover the result of Array Conditioning?
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