one of our 4000 has been running at our warehouse in KY for a little over 2 years. The net work back there is a differnt subnet allowing coms via VPN to our sales office.
At some point the VPN dropped (DSL w/ static ip modem got flipped out of bridge mode and started handing out ips). Once that was unscrewed i was unable to rdc to the 4000 via the subnet IP or the static IP. Called the warehouse and they said the 4000 says Network Disconnected on the dash. I have an identical unit here and was only able to replicated that message by unplugging the network cables.
We had both nics plugged in with different ips staticly assigned. I had the warehouse guys power cycle the unit (gracefully) a couple of time as well as switch out cat cables. had them hook it into a spare switch to see if maybe the switch had packed it up, but the message still persists.
The unit is on its way to me here in CA. WD told me to run recovery on it. There is nothing on the drives that i cannot stand to lose, but i dont want to wait all the time for it to rebuild the raid. The unit only has 2 - 2TB drives in it.
Can i pull the drives and try running the recovery (last option) or will it want the drives in there? I never locked them. If the recover is successful and the nics come back (i have my doubts) will it know what to do with the drives? I can repopulate them, but it would take a while (days).
The router in KY has DHCP enabled (for a range of ip addys outside of the satic ones on all the equipment there) so the guys/gals can get onto the wireless with their phones/ipads/ect. The router didnt try and give out an ipaddy to the 4000. checked the tables on both the Cisco 082 and the RT66N and there were no unaccounted for ip addys. Pinging the server from a local machine and here via the subnet didnt find anything.
Obviously i will try and get into the unit before running the recovery. I want that to be my last ditch effort. I have a isolated router i can set to DHCP and my laptop so i can hack away at it on a closed network. Will run some of the tricks on it that I’ve read about here.
Prolly way to much info, but any advice is appreciated.