BCM200 3.6-Defaulting hard drive

[DigitelD]

I want to default the hard drive. We took this good BCM out of a customers site and replaced it with a 400. We need to reuse this 200. I have initialized telephony but now I need to default the hard drive. I went into SSH and followed the procedure for replacing a hard drive. However, it does not seem to be working. Has anyone had any problems with this?

 

[biv343]

No way to default the hard drive, short of the bit imaging tool. There probably isn't much to gain by defaulting it anyways, since the keycodes stay with the system, and you'd need to run the universal profile to re-initialize the hard drive after replacement/imaging.

Doing a startup on the system and resetting the CallPilot database should blow away everything except the system name, IP address, and any data paramters (such as DCHP, Firewall/NAT, etc).

 

[TheMitelGuy]

Does anyone have a way of "duping" hard drives? I know we are suppose to use the image tool, however it is costly.

I'm frustrated, as I followed ITAS's instruction (and the engineer knows that), yet it caused the hard drive to become in-op. Now, I have a BCM without any functionality. Nortel does not really stand behind their engineers, as they told me I would have to re-image the hard drive, and use the tool (at my cost)....

 

[DigitelD]

It turned out that the event logs had to be purged in the BCM. They were causing the system to get stuck while going through the intialize universal profile process.

SHK Certified (School of Hard Knocks)

 

[biv343]

Only official supported method is to use the BIT tool. Latest word is that there may be upgrade issues going to 4.0 if the drive is imaged with anything other than BIT. Not quite sure how, since an image is an image in my mind.

If you think of the BIT tool as a tool needed to do business, it isn't that bad. For someone who has a handful of systems they deal with, it's pricey. For a distributor who has a full inventory of spare parts and what not its nothing.

I keep our BIT software, image CDs, CD ROM drive, ribbon cable, and spare drives in a toolbox labelled "BCM Crash Kit". Haven't had to use it much, mostly when I blow up our lab system.

 

[acewarlock]

I have used the image of a BCM 400 to Image a BCM 200 and it worked fine. I use Ghost Image tool.