Any Xserve Admins out there? [urgent]

[jAQUAN]

(I have the top one pictured)

Hehe, so...
Turns out these bad boys only need to get bumbed on the front to pop out one of their drives(sort of a push in to pop out setup). We share a server closet the company next door and their tech just found this out for me. How nice of him!

Anyway, he pushed the drive back in and now the servers beeping like crazy.

[Here's the fun part]
-I've not touched the machine so I don't know anything about it. I have no video (the monitor is on a kvm switch and no one seems to remember which id is the xserve) and I need a use keyboard/mouse to access it.

Should I just try to remote desktop into it? Anyone know how?

-I'm pretty sure the array (raid 5) needs to be rebuilt, do you think restarting will do that?

picture lie-loo when she first meets corbin, "HeLp mmMee-e-e!"

[blazes816]

<!-- Warning this will not help you i'm sorry, best of luck>

My dad works for the local school district, and they have a rack of hdds that when go bad, are replaced and automaticly healed. Well one time a tech person wanted to see how much they hold so he pulled one. Then to see if they were all alike, he pulled another, and another, and another. They had to reupload the whole filesystem.


Best of luck.

EDIT: nice nerd quote. But now that I think about it, is it a self healing system? Mabey that beeping just means it's healing....</optimistic>

[Genesis F5]

Pla-eeee-se ha-eeeelp me! (that part of the movie was good. )

[jAQUAN]

anyone know the Unix command line to get to root?

[blazes816]

su - root

[EVPohovich]

This might be helpful...

http://images.apple.com/server/pdfs/Command_Line.pdf

[gerbick]

If you have journaling turned on - Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility > Highlight the RAID Array, and see if Journaling is turned on - and it should rebuild itself after a while or use DiskWarrior to do it.

I can ask around, it's been a while since I've rebuilt a RAID Array via OSX - and that was in the 10.2/10.3 (early) days... 10.4 moved a few things around, and if you don't know the bash terminal commands, I'd suggest not using them dude.

[Sybersnake]

remote admin and check the console and the raid array like gerbick said.

[jAQUAN]

I finally got access to the machine. In the place where I would have seen a RAID error I didn't see one. The alarm was still going off so I turned it off with a shell command. Restarted and all three disks have green lights now and everything seems to be fine. I don't like that I shut the alarm off by force though.