Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Restoring FSM to factory defaults requires to clear host cache on the I/O modules

Recently I restored my Flex System Manager to factory defaults. It was already managing a chassis, but I unmanaged and remanaged it.
I found an issue though: when I tried to upgrade my I/O Modules to the latest firmware level, I got an error stating that the IO Module was not able to connect to the FSM server as the host key was different than the one stored on the switch itself.
This was hapenning because I already upgraded those switch using the "old" FSM image.
In order to fix that you just need to clear the ssh host cache.
Here's the command for an EN4093/CN4093 switch:

Start an ssh session using Industry Standard Command line (iscli).
Type
ena
conf t
clar ssh-hostcache

That is it.

I still need to figure out the right command for the brocade switch. Any suggestion is more than welcome.
Roberta

SmartCloudEntry: how to autostart in linux

Hello there
I wanted to configure IBM Smartcloud Entry to start automatically when the system starts in linux. I am running version 2.4

Here's what I did:

once the code was installed, I created the following file

/root/SmartCloud_Entry_24/StartSCE
that contains the following text:
nohup /root/SmartCloud_Entry_24/SCE -nosplash < /dev/null > /dev/null &

in /opt/ibm/SCE24/skc.ini
added 7777 after console to have the osgi listen on telnet port 7777


and added the following line to /etc/rc.d/rc.local
/root/SmartCloud_Entry_24/StartSCE

The trick is done!
Have fun
Roberta