Rob Morrow's Weblog

Creating idprom images (last part of building a 12k/15/20k/25k SC from "scratch")
I ran into this quite by accident. A couple of 20K's got so royally hosed that they needed to have their SC's built from scratch. So, I rebuilt the OS from a known-good flash archive, downloaded SMS 1.5, and ran smsinstall. After that I needed to build the IDprom images for the domains. Here's how I did it: Given: Mac address and Serial Number (easy...they're both on the front bottom of the cabinet) sms-svc> sysid -d a -e 0:0:be:a8:4:7c -s 143A2008BD This translates to: become sms-svc user, and do "sysid -d -e -s " Keep in mind that the only thing that'll change in the above equation as you move through all of the domains (yes...an IDprom has to get created for each domain possible) is to increase the mac address by one number for each new domain. Example: Domain A ....above example... Domain B sysid -d b -e 0:0:be:a8:4:7d -s 143A2008BD Domain C sysid -d c -e 0:0:be:a8:4:7e -s 143A2008BD Seeing a pattern? Of course it's much easier if you have done an smsbackup prior to rebuilding the SC's. That way you can skip this nonsense and go straight to smsrestore. If using the second method, it's best to restore to the non-active SC, then do a "setfailover on" from the active SC, then do a "setfailover force" from the active SC. You can verify that it worked easily enough. The "SF15K-gen-ethers.sh" (bundled with the SC) will only work with valid IDproms. Otherwise, you can inspect the output of that command in /tmp/ethers and it should be obvious if it worked [or not].

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