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i think we owe you one, Doug thanks! m > On Oct 27, 2016, at 2:07 AM, Doug McIntyre <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 01:35:06AM -0500, Doug McIntyre wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 01:20:45PM -0500, Doug McIntyre wrote: >>> We're going to upgrade the core MICE 10G switches coming up this week >>> on Wednesday night/ Thursday morning at 12:30AM-1:00AM CDT on 27 October. >> >> The upgrade is NOT going as planned, and we discovered our maintenance >> support has run out again, and JTAC will not help us (even at a pay >> per-incidence event). In fact, since the EX4500 has reached EOL, (although >> not EOM), and we let the contract expire, Juniper says we will be unable to >> renew maintenance support on the EX4500 at all. >> >> I'm looking at ways to bring the VC cluster fully back online now. >> >> If it comes down to it, I should have non-production hardware that could >> temporarily go in. > > Okay, I'm going to have to drive in. > > Right now, the state of things. > > The primary boot partition on the EX4500 took a digger, so we have bad > hardware. I was able to boot off the backup boot partition on the > EX4500, but this is still the older software version since I was in > the middle of the upgrade and the upgrade process didn't get to the > 2nd partition to upgrade it yet. > > The virtual chassis is now split version, which means VC won't work. > > Furthmore, networking is not working on either unit, even to the OOB. > > I am going to have to drive in to be physically in front of the box. > > I have two plans of attack. I will put the install image on a USB > drive and load it off USB onto the unit. IIRC, having done this > before long ago, this takes *ages* to do. > > If I can get both units happy with the same software versions, VC can > reestablish, and things can go along. > > I also have two EX4550's not-in-production right now, I'll bring them > along just in case. If things are really to the point of no return on > the EX4500, I can put in one or two and bring them up, restoring the > saved configs onto them. Of course, things will have to shuffle a little > then. This will delay me a bit in unmounting them from where they are, > but I think it is a safe backup plan. > > Another option would be to make the EX4550 standalone, but I have to > unhook the VC cables before this can happen, and it only helps along > a portion of the members. I don't think this is worthwhile to pursue. > > So, it'll be another hour before I can get downtown to my place, get > hardware, and get over to 511. > > -- > Doug McIntyre <[log in to unmask]> > ~.~ ipHouse ~.~ > Network Engineer/Provisioning/Jack of all Trades WI:(715) 598-4284 MN:(651) 647-6109 Toll Free:(800) 896-0907 Fax:(866)-280-2356