[Info-vax] resesetting MP of RX4046 to factory settings

[Jouk]

RobertsonEricW wrote:
> On Mar 7, 2:13 am, joukj<jo... at hrem.nano.tudelft.nl>  wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have 2 questions on the reset button for the MP of a RX4640:
>>     1) According to the manuals it is located on the base-board, somewhere
>>        underneath the power supplies. The only way to press this button as
>>        I can see is to switch off the machine, Take out the base-board and
>>        push the button. Is this the way to do it?
>>     2) If I push the button for a few seconds according to the manual it
>>        resets some user-feature to default. The manual only mentions
>>          -user accounts
>>          -baud rate serial port
>>        Does this mean that the settings of the LAN are not reset.
>>        If this is the case, how can this be done apart from making a
>>        connection via the serial line?
>>
>>          Jouk
>
> Jouk,
>
> Not sure about the answer to question number 1. Regarding your
> question number 2, I believe I was able to manually add an ARP entry
> for the MP network interface using its MAC address with the MP on my
> RX2600 when I first received it. There was a discussion on this
> newsgroup at one time on this subject but I cannot seem to find it
> right now. Basically you do the following:
>
> 1.) Pick any IP address that is known to be available on your network
> (for example 192.168.2.100).
> 2.) Then create the DNS A record entry in your name server for this
> address in your local DNS domain file (home.net for example)
> 3.) Restart your DNS so that it picks up the new A record entry you
> just added.
> 4.) Use arp to add the entry to the machine from which you want to
> telnet. For example if your local domain is home.net and you want to
> refer to the rx4640 as srvr.home.net then arp -s srvr.home.net xx-xx-
> xx-xx-xx-xx (where xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx is the MAC address of the
> management card printed on somewhere on the RX4640.
>   telnet mp-srvr.home.net
>
> Some people remarked that they did not need to perform the DNS setup
> (steps 2 and 3). But, in my case I couldn't get this to work without
> adding the DNS entry. However, I don't honestly remember the initial
> configuration state of the MP's network configuration when I did this.
> So, I am not certain this will work depending on the current
> configuration state of the MP. But it cannot hurt to try it. If this
> does not work for you then I think you will probably need to use the
> external RS-232  connector to reconfigure the MP. The official HP part
> number for the MP cable is  A6144-63007. However, I have heard that
> any standard serial cable should work as long as you do not require
> capability beyond communicating with the MP console.
>
> Good luck with your new "toy".
>
> Eric

What finally worked for me was to upgrade the firmware to the latest 
version. This made the DHCP client available. I was hesitating doing 
this because I could not as instructed reset the MP and clear all logs.

                Jouk