troubleshooting before hard reset
Hi, one of my ageing servers, HP DL380g5, which is serving a bunch of non-critical production jails on FreeBSD 11.1, bacame inaccessible over weekend. I have physical access, its disks and NICs are showing activity, but it doesn't send anything to monitor over VGA, also I guess it doesn't recognise keyboard (num lock led does nothing). Before I hard reset it, is there anything I can do to troubleshoot the problem? I tried serial port as well but it gives nothing on either 9600 or 115200 baud. I guess OS needs to be configured beforehand for serial access. Thank you in advance, -- Before enlightenment - chop wood, draw water. After enlightenment - chop wood, draw water. Marko Cupać https://www.mimar.rs/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: troubleshooting before hard reset
15.01.2018 16:31, Marko Cupać wrote: > Hi, > > one of my ageing servers, HP DL380g5, which is serving a bunch of > non-critical production jails on FreeBSD 11.1, bacame inaccessible over > weekend. I have physical access, its disks and NICs are showing > activity, but it doesn't send anything to monitor over VGA, also I > guess it doesn't recognise keyboard (num lock led does nothing). > > Before I hard reset it, is there anything I can do to troubleshoot the > problem? I tried serial port as well but it gives nothing on either > 9600 or 115200 baud. I guess OS needs to be configured beforehand for > serial access. Yes. If keyboard seems to be dead and there is no video output, I'm afraid you can't get anything useful from the box other than sniffing traffic from its MAC address, if any. And check MAC address table of network switch for server's MAC address if you have managed switch. Else, just reset it. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: troubleshooting before hard reset
On 2018-01-15 10:40, Eugene Grosbein wrote: 15.01.2018 16:31, Marko Cupać wrote: Hi, one of my ageing servers, HP DL380g5, which is serving a bunch of non-critical production jails on FreeBSD 11.1, bacame inaccessible over weekend. I have physical access, its disks and NICs are showing activity, but it doesn't send anything to monitor over VGA, also I guess it doesn't recognise keyboard (num lock led does nothing). Before I hard reset it, is there anything I can do to troubleshoot the problem? I tried serial port as well but it gives nothing on either 9600 or 115200 baud. I guess OS needs to be configured beforehand for serial access. Yes. If keyboard seems to be dead and there is no video output, I'm afraid you can't get anything useful from the box other than sniffing traffic from its MAC address, if any. And check MAC address table of network switch for server's MAC address if you have managed switch. Else, just reset it. Have you tried remote console access via the iLO? Sometimes that still works when the physical VGA doesn't. \\Clay ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
