Paritions from deleted servers exhist on one server

[clytwyn]

Good Morning all,

I have a network that consitted of 7 netware servers, I'm trying to consolidate 4 of them into the other 3. I've done three so far and till yesterday thought I was successful. All the main 3 servers at head office are clean, they show no signs of any of the old partitions in NDS Manager. The last server to move over still shows that it has partitions on its server for the servers that are gone. To complicate things more those servers have since been turned into workstations. As I try to figure this out I notice that I have lots of unscoped objects with names of the old servers and some I don't recognize. In NDS manager I'm unable to delete the partitions when I click on them I get a 626 error, I've also seen a 625 error when doing timesync's. I've looked on the net but haven't found anythign that would be much help. The last thing I've noticed is when I check external references I have lots of obituary objects. They all pertain to those unscoped objects. Any suggestions are welcomed. And thank you for your response.

 

[marvhuffaker]

Wow. Okay take a deep breath.

One thought.. Did you actually Remove NDS from the servers you killed before you made them into workstations? If not, go into NDS Manager and delete them. This may help you out quite a bit. After that is done, make sure the remaining servers are talking to each other and that you don't get any DSTRACE errors. Find the TID on Novell that talks about "NDS HEALTH CHECK".

Don't make any other changes until you get your tree back in good health and error free. Also don't worry about the external references right now. They are irrelevant to your much bigger problem.

This is one of those deals where you could cause more problems that not if you don't know exactly what and why you are doing. May be a good idea to call in the big dogs on this one.

Marvin

Marvin Huffaker MCNE, CNE
Marvin Huffaker Consulting

http://www.redjuju.com

 

[clytwyn]

That's the weird thing NDS was removed properly and the servers were given ample time to sync up. Until yesterday NDS manager showed that everything was up to par. On the server that has the problem, it showed nothing in reference to the 3 other servers that were removed. It's almost like rebooting the server brought them back. Our 3 existing servers here at head office show no references to the 3 servers that were removed in NDS Manager in the past weeks.

I ran some DStrace commands I found in a google group and all of a sudden it reported those servers as being up, yet they don't exist. We did end up promoting the one read/write replica to a master even though the server isn't there and it did go though and it does say it's on.

I think I'm just going to call Novell as I seem to be going in circles.

 

[marvhuffaker]

If you don't want to have the hassle of having to deal with Sento (Their front line support), call me and I can set up an incident for you and get you right to an eDir engineer.

Marvin Huffaker MCNE, CNE
Marvin Huffaker Consulting

http://www.redjuju.com

 

[clytwyn]

Thanks for the offer Marvin. I ended up calling Novell one of my buddies is a cne so he to can call and get past Sento. However when we finally talked to a tech he mentioned that 5.1 isn't supported anymore. So that was then end of that discussion.

 

[marvhuffaker]

I hadn't heard that 5.1 had gone off the official supported list. I know that 5.0 is no longer supported. I just called in with 5.1 about 2 weeks ago.



Marvin Huffaker MCNE, CNE
Marvin Huffaker Consulting

http://www.redjuju.com