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Cisco Physical Security Multiservices Platform Series User Guide
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Appendix B Recovering from a Hard Drive Failure
Reimaging a Multiservices Platform Series Device that is Running Cisco IPICS
Step 16
Press
Esc
to exit and
Yes
to confirm.
Step 17
Insert the recovery disc for your release of VSM and press
Ctrl-Alt-Del
to reboot.
Step 18
At the boot prompt, enter
factory
and press
Enter
.
The operating system and VSM software installs. This process takes approximately 20 minutes. Progress
messages provide information about the installation. When the process completes, the disk ejects, and a
login screen appears.
Reimaging a Multiservices Platform Series Device that is
Running Cisco IPICS
Reimaging a Multiservices Platform Series Device that is running Cisco IPICS involves reconfiguring
RAID to make replacement hard drives visible to a server and resetting the server to the factory defaults.
Before reimaging a system, replace all failed hard drives.
Caution
This procedure is intended to recover a server from a catastrophic failure. Before you perform these
steps, see
to make sure that this procedure is appropriate for your situation.
To reimage a server, perform the following steps:
Procedure
Step 1
After replacing failed drives as described in the
“Replacing a Hard Drive” section on page B-3
the server and, as soon as the server starts booting, press
Ctrl-M
to access the RAID configuration tool.
Step 2
Choose
Configure
and press
Enter
.
Step 3
Choose
New Configuration
and press
Enter
.
Step 4
Choose
Yes
and press
Enter
to display the ports and drives.
Step 5
Choose
Port 0
and press
Spacebar
to convert to ONLIN A00-00.
Step 6
Press
F10
to configure.
Step 7
Press
Spacebar
to choose SPAN-1.
Step 8
Press
F10
to continue.
Step 9
Specify the following settings:
•
RAID = 0
•
Size = 12288
Step 10
Choose
Accept
and press
Enter
to create VD0.
Step 11
Choose
Accept
and press
Enter
to create VD1.
Step 12
Press
Esc
to leave configuration mode and
Yes
to save the configuration.
Step 13
Press
Esc
again.
Step 14
For each additional drive:
a.
Select the next port and press
Spacebar
to change to ONLIN A0
N
-00, where N is the next drive.