I've been recently tasked the wonderful "luxury" of managing a Windows 2003r2 Standard server running on an HP ProLiant DL. I don't have the exact model or generation at the moment, but I'll add that tomorrow when I get back into the server room. I'm not sure what the previous IT admins before me did, but the HP software looks incomplete so I'm unable to obtain any useful information even logged in remotely.
- Is there anything I can install to determine the model/generation of this machine?
- last night this server shutdown and I can't seem to determine any useful information to figure out why... there is no HP System Management software on this machine for some reason. looking through the Windows' Event Viewer I can see that activity stopped around 11:15pm, but nothing useful to determine a cause. Application and Security logs show nothing, while System shows a Event ID: 6008 Source: Eventlog when I rebooted the machine this morning.
only thing that I see that may cause a system crash in the System log is a "The file system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable." that looks to have been showing up every day at a specific time, 6:46pm. This system is a RAID5 that's split into two partitions and this System log looks to be occuring on the second partition that's used for file serving.
- around 930am this morning when I rebooted this machine it took approximately 10 minutes before it gave the usual bootup beeps, woke up the monitor and proceeded to boot. at this particular point in time, it wouldn't load the Windows boot loader and kept giving the message "Disk Error". checking out the F9, F10, F11 options it rebooted the system after exit and this time Windows began loading. disk checks ensued for about half an hour before Windows came up and services were restored.
now I'm trying to determine:
1. the easiest way to install the HP software that should have originally been on this machine
2. cause of the shutdown last night
if anyone has any suggestions or need further information that can be obtained remotely, please HELP!