I recently got a position as part time IT for a small charter school. The prior admin ordered a Dell PowerConnect W-620, which is to my understanding is just an Aruba 620. Its running Aruba OS 5.x on one partition, and 6.x on another.
The system was half installed and not functional and in an attempt to learn the workings I backed up teh configs and licenses and decided to do a reset.
I used the Web GUI and hit the reset controller button, which to my (poor) understanding is the same as the terminal command 'write erase', leaving the licenses on the box but resetting the machine.
I waited a few minutes, and then my Web GUI was no longer responding (Makes sense, it no longer has an IP address) so i went to the back room and unplugged it, counted to thirty, and plugged it back in. I have a console cable connected and a HyperTerminal Session open, using a Console Cable that I have used to access this controller via SSH today, so I know the cable's good.
I dont have much experience using hyper terminal, and I wasnt sure that I had the com ports selected right, so i wired up a loopback serial connector and everything seems to be working just fine.
THE PROBLEM IS: when i plug the mobility controller in, i get nothing from the mobility controller. What has me more worried is that the port lights on every port are fully lit up. I unplugged it a couple of times and they are no longer on, but I am still not getting anything in the terminal window...
Did I unplug it too early? Did I brick it? I followed the instructions that I could find but I'm not quite undertanding what needs to be done here..
any help is GREATLY appreciated, If you need more info that I havent given here, please let me know and I will tell you what I know.
Thanks