ETEMS Troubleshooting

Appliance Unreachable

Symptom

Explanation and possible solutions

Symptoms of ETEMS’s inability to

• Check physical connectivity to the appliance’s management

communicate with an appliance are:

port (proper seating of the RJ-45 Ethernet cable).

•

Status indicator of ?.

• Verify that the management IP address is the same in

• “Operation failed” result when

ETEMS and on the appliance. Refresh the appliance status,

and then compare configurations (Tools > Compare

 

putting a configuration to an

 

Config to Appliance).

 

appliance, refreshing status, or

 

 

 

comparing configurations.

• The connection between ETEMS and the appliance has

•

Unsuccessful software upgrade.

timed out. Check the timeout setting (Edit > Preferences)

and adjust if necessary.

 

 

 

 

• Check for a password mismatch between the appliance and

 

 

ETEMS. Refresh the appliance status, and then look at the

 

 

resulting error message or ETEMS log for a failure

 

 

description. If the message indicates an invalid password,

 

 

update ETEMS with the appliance password.

 

 

• If IPSec is enabled on the management port, disable it and

 

 

then disable the IPSec client. Verify that you can

 

 

communicate with the appliance when IPSec is disabled. If

 

 

not, check the preceding items to resolve the problem. If

 

 

you can successfully establish communication with IPSec

 

 

disabled, ensure that the IPSec client configuration matches

 

 

the appliance’s IPSec management port configuration.

 

 

Enable IPSec on the management port and enable the

 

 

IPSec client. If this does not fix the connectivity problem,

 

 

see your system administrator or contact Customer

 

 

Support.

Unable to communicate with

Possible causes are:

appliance via xml-rpc. Connection

• Appliance is unplugged or powered off.

timed out.

• Appliance is rebooting.

 

 

 

 

• Communication timeout value is set too low (Edit >

 

 

Preferences).

 

 

• When managing ETEPs, TLS must be enabled in ETEMS.

 

 

To check the TLS setting, go to Edit > Preferences >

 

 

ETEMS > Communications and select Use TLS for XML/

 

 

RPC.

 

 

• When using trusted hosts on the ETEP, if you type the

 

 

management station IP address incorrectly, EncrypTight will

 

 

be unable to communicate with the ETEP. To recover, use

 

 

SSh to log in to the CLI (Tools > Ssh). Log in as the ops

 

 

or admin user, and at the command prompt type configure

 

 

to enter configuration mode. From the config> prompt,

 

 

type disable-trusted-hoststo disable the trusted hosts

 

 

entries for the ETEP.

The appliance can communicate

• Retry the operation. The appliance may have been in a

with the management station but is

transitional state and is now up and operational.

unable to respond to a request.

• Connect to the appliance’s CLI. Check for messages that

 

 

The following error message may be

provide an indication of the appliance’s status.

displayed: Appliance returned

• Reboot the appliance from the CLI. After the appliance has

an unknown status code [-

rebooted, refresh the status.

1].

• If the above steps fail to clear the message, contact

 

 

 

 

customer support.

 

 

 

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