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Recovering a chassis that was not unmanaged correctly

If a chassis was not unmanaged correctly, you must recover the chassis before you can remanage it.

Procedure

Complete one of the following procedures to restore management on a CMM.

  • If the replacement XClarity Administrator instance uses the same IP address as the failed XClarity Administrator, manage the device again using the RECOVERY_ID account and password and the Force management option (see Managing chassis).
  • Reset the CMM to factory defaults by pressing the pinhole button on the CMM using a paperclip for at least 10 seconds. For more information about resetting the CMM, including important notices, see CMM Reset in the Flex Systems online documentation.
  • Reset the CMM configuration using the following steps:
    1. Through an SSH session, open a management command-line interface for the chassis, and log in with the RECOVERY_ID account.
      Note
      The password for the RECOVERY_ID account was set when you selected the chassis for management on the Management Domain page. For more information about central account management, see Managing chassis.

      If this is the first time that you have used the RECOVERY_ID account to log in to the CMM, you must change the password.

    2. If you are prompted, type the new password for the RECOVERY_ID account.
    3. Restore the CMM configuration by performing one of the following steps:
      • If you are running CMM firmware release June 2015 or later, run the following command:
        read -f unmanage -T mm[p]

        For more information, see the read command in the CMM online documentation.

      • If you are running CMM firmware release earlier than June 2015, run the following commands in the order shown:
        1. env -T mm[p]
        2. sslcfg -client disabled -tc1 remove
        3. accseccfg -am local
        4. ldapcfg -i1 -p1 -rd "" -usa "" -gsa "" -lpa ""
        5. ntp -en disabled -i 0.0.0.0 -v3en disabled
        6. cimsub -clear all

        7. fsmcm -off

          The fsmcm command disables XClarity Administrator user-account management and allows you to use local CMM user accounts to authenticate to the CMM and any management processor that is installed in the chassis.

          After you run the fsmcm -off command, the RECOVERY_ID account is removed from the CMM user registry. When you run the fsmcm -off command, the CMM CLI session terminates. You can now authenticate to the CMM and other chassis components by using local CMM credentials, and use local CMM credentials to access the CMM web interface or CLI for the chassis until user management by XClarity Administrator is restored.

          For more information, see the fsmcm command in the CMM online documentation.

    After XClarity Administrator is restored or replaced, you can manage the chassis again (see Managing chassis). All information about the chassis (such as network settings) is retained.