Anyone else seeing really long boot times?

[htroberts]

I have a server that seems to take a long time to actually be available on the network (serving its home web page). It seems to take an hour or so before I can get to the UI.

This one is new (refurbished), and I've only actually booted it twice so far (once a week ago to replicate content to it, and again when replication finished to relocate it into its permanent home where the old one was), but I had the same problem with the one it's replacing.

When I had the problem originally with the old server, I called Kaleidescape. Their suggestions were to use the serial console to configure a static address, which I'm using, and to try a different network cable, which also didn't seem to make any difference. I had to get off the phone, and by the time I got back to look at it the next day, it was working okay, and I don't ever reboot it, so I haven't pursued it.

The new server, the one that's slow today, was powered down cleanly (using the front panel button), and I can see from the console boot log that it's up--this is the snippet at the end of the log, from about 3:05pm:

Product id: 3U Server (0x0102)
Video Server started. Version: 5.3.1-13010
Serial number: 000000xxxxxx
Video Server boot flash version: 9
HTTP Proxy Server:
IP Address : 10.0.0.75
Subnet Mask : 255.255.255.0
Broadcast Address: 10.0.0.255
Default Gateway : 10.0.0.254
DNS Server #1 : 10.0.0.1
DNS Server #2 : 10.0.0.2
Fan speeds (0,0,0) RPM​

I had link and activity lights on the back of the server, the switchport shows up and connected, and shows some traffic, but not much:

GigabitEthernet2/48 is up, line protocol is up (connected)
Full-duplex, 1000Mb/s, link type is auto, media type is 10/100/1000-TX
5 minute input rate 2000 bits/sec, 1 packets/sec
5 minute output rate 2000 bits/sec, 1 packets/sec​

It finally started answering IP scans at 16:23, and seems to be working okay now.

Just wondered if anyone else had seen this sort of behavior.

Thanks!

 

[Transepoch]

Which address does it respond on, 75 or 255?

 

[htroberts]

Which address does it respond on, 75 or 255?

.75. .255 is the network's broadcast address.

 

[Mark H]

Not seen it but are you using more than one router in your setup if so it is likely that you will need to setup specific address routing between the 2 routers to allow the traffic to flow correctly.

Just a quick thought as normally these kind of issues are down to network device configuration errors.

 

[Transepoch]

Two other thoughts: Is 75 a unique address? Did you receive the server on version 5.3.1?

This second one in particular may be more likely, as an updating restart takes a fair bit longer (still shouldn't have been 60-90 minutes though.)

 

[JerryL]

Could be a bad switch.

 

[htroberts]

Two other thoughts: Is 75 a unique address? Did you receive the server on version 5.3.1?

This second one in particular may be more likely, as an updating restart takes a fair bit longer (still shouldn't have been 60-90 minutes though.)

Yes, .75 is unique.

I don't know about the as-shipped software version. The system's home page says "Your system upgraded to software version 5.3.1-13010 on December 31", but they always seem to say Dec 31, which makes me think either there's a bug in he update process or the real-time-clock has some sort of issue.

 

[Transepoch]

That could be something then. Network connections can get wonky when they think there is a huge time differential.