Creation of self-signed certificate on 3PAR Storeserv 7200

[Dmitriy1]

Hello!

While I was trying to add my 3PAR StoreServ to SSMC,  I took the error with expired certificate. I connected to my 3Par with SSH and tried to create new certificate with command createcert (createcert unified-server -selfsigned -keysize 2048 -days 365), but took the error "Could not read domain information".

What am I doing wrong?

[Dennis Handly]

That should work.  Can you do any other CLI commands?

Does showcert work?

[Dmitriy1]

Hello!

Yes, showcert works. But I find another issue. It's my test array, and I have taken it my customer.
When I try to type showsys,  I take this:

Error: The cache server is waiting for the system manager to finish reporting the system configuration and status.  Please try again later.

I don't understand how can I resolve this issue.

[Dennis Handly]

What does "showsysmgr -d" show?

[NetworkPeon]

I'm new to the 3par, but in general self-generated certs require a hostname and domain name data to be generated. As an answer for anyone else who stumbles across these check to make sure you have set a domain name for your controller before generating the certificate. 

[Blago]

I had a failed node that was not starting to recover automatically.

After checking on the healthy node, I got the:
Error: The cache server is waiting for the system manager to finish reporting the system configuration and status. Please try again later.

These are the commands that fixed it for me:
InServ cli% showsys
Error: The cache server is waiting for the system manager to finish reporting the system configuration and status. Please try again later.
InServ cli% showsysmgr -d
TOC quorum found for TOC 159864, but waiting for nodes 1 to boot up. If the nodes are offline, use 'setsysmgr tocgen 159864'.

TOCs found:
Valid TOC: Name(somename) Sysid(23069) Gen(159864) Modified(2020-11-27 11:31:56 EET) Disk count(8/8)
5000CCA071019*** on 0:0:0 and 0:0:0
5000CCA071019*** on 0:0:0 and 0:0:0
5000CCA071017*** on 0:0:0 and 0:0:0
5000CCA071016*** on 0:0:0 and 0:0:0
5000CCA07101A*** on 0:0:0 and 0:0:0
5000CCA071015*** on 0:0:0 and 0:0:0
5000CCA07101A*** on 0:0:0 and 0:0:0
5000CCA071016*** on 0:0:0 and 0:0:0

8 disks were available to be examined for TOCs.

InServ cli% setsysmgr tocgen 159864
Are you sure you want to run setsysmgr tocgen?
select q=quit y=yes n=no: y
InServ cli% showsys
Error: The cache server is waiting for the system manager to finish reporting the system configuration and status. Please try again later.
InServ cli% showtask
System manager is still initializing - try this command later.
Use 'showsysmgr' to see the current system state.
InServ cli% showsysmgr
System is reporting an unknown initialization type: ms_tocgen
TOC quorum found for TOC 159864, but waiting for nodes 1 to boot up because we need to recover from a previous powerfail.-You can use 'setsysmgr force_iderecovery' to force recovery with possible data loss.

TOCs found:
Valid TOC: Name(somename) Sysid(23069) Gen(159864) Modified(2020-11-27 11:31:56 EET) Disk count(8/8)

8 disks were available to be examined for TOCs.

InServ cli% setsysmgr force_iderecovery
Are you sure you want to run setsysmgr force_iderecovery?
select q=quit y=yes n=no: y
InServ cli% showtasks
invalid command name "showtasks"
InServ cli% showtask
System manager is still initializing - try this command later.
Use 'showsysmgr' to see the current system state.
InServ cli% showsysmgr
System is in the process of starting up.

InServ cli% showsysmgr
System is up and running from 2021-01-07 18:19:31 EET
InServ cli%