Hello,
First off, i'm relatively new to this so I've been reading over the manual and forum searching but can not find a straight answer for this.
So I have a 40 bay (1TB drives) Aberdeen storage server that I inherited from the previous engineer at my facility and it's running the latest version of FreeNas on it (I know b/c I saw him upgrade it). The system has been working fine but I had a hardware alarm alerting to a failed drive on Tuesday. I logged into the FreeNas GUI and saw that it was degraded but operational. So I started reading through the manual to see what I could do to replace the drive. Per the instructions, I OFFLINED the bad one, shut down the server and swapped out the drives. Upon starting it up, I could not access the GUI nor could I ping other machines from inside the SHELL. Also, because it's not talking to the network, I could not and can not access the files on the server.
Error I see when I restart the machine: Storage_Server_1 ntpd-initres[4907]: Host Name Not Found: 1. FreeBSD.pool.ntp.org
I've restarted multiple times.
I know the switch is working because all of my other machines are talking (including another Freenas server)
I've configured another nic to the same static IP address and moved the cable and it's not doing anything now (won't even boot to the freenas console)
It has a Raidz2-0 config
Will I destroy the current setup if I try changing the IP address that is currently assigned to it?
Is there any idea as to why I would lose connectivity to the GUI after swapping out a failed drive?
Am I just totally hosed on this?
Thanks
First off, i'm relatively new to this so I've been reading over the manual and forum searching but can not find a straight answer for this.
So I have a 40 bay (1TB drives) Aberdeen storage server that I inherited from the previous engineer at my facility and it's running the latest version of FreeNas on it (I know b/c I saw him upgrade it). The system has been working fine but I had a hardware alarm alerting to a failed drive on Tuesday. I logged into the FreeNas GUI and saw that it was degraded but operational. So I started reading through the manual to see what I could do to replace the drive. Per the instructions, I OFFLINED the bad one, shut down the server and swapped out the drives. Upon starting it up, I could not access the GUI nor could I ping other machines from inside the SHELL. Also, because it's not talking to the network, I could not and can not access the files on the server.
Error I see when I restart the machine: Storage_Server_1 ntpd-initres[4907]: Host Name Not Found: 1. FreeBSD.pool.ntp.org
I've restarted multiple times.
I know the switch is working because all of my other machines are talking (including another Freenas server)
I've configured another nic to the same static IP address and moved the cable and it's not doing anything now (won't even boot to the freenas console)
It has a Raidz2-0 config
Will I destroy the current setup if I try changing the IP address that is currently assigned to it?
Is there any idea as to why I would lose connectivity to the GUI after swapping out a failed drive?
Am I just totally hosed on this?
Thanks