#ONTAP Guided Setup

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stoic ferry
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Hi Everyone,

Building my first NetApp today after administrating a few of them for about a year. After I turned on both controllers (AFF-A150), I plugged my console cable into Controller B and started my PuTTY session. Eventually after giving that node a management IP/subnet mask/GW IP it got down to the part where it asked me to either continue using the CLI or navigate to that management IP using my browser. I ended the session and tried to navigate to that IP with no success. I tried a few different browsers which also didn’t work. Eventually I just plugged my console cable back into the Controller and finished the cluster setup that way, including creating the cluster itself and adding the 2nd host. My question is – what is the proper way of “continuing” the guided setup via GUI once it prompts you to choose? Should I leave that PuTTY session open and at the same time open a browser to get to the GUI? Do I need to be plugged into the NetApp differently for that? After completing the initial cluster setup I plugged in two management Cat6 cables to my switch in the same rack so that I could continue working at my workstation, after I brought my laptop back to my desk and plugged into the network I was able to get to the GUI just fine.

gleaming burrow
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No it should definitely work. I guess something in the network (or the network config on the node) was not correct and that is why it didn't work. But it's hard to tell from remote and after the fact

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did you try http or https?

stoic ferry
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I tried both - that was my initial thought, that it didn’t even have its self signed cert yet and the browser wouldn’t work on https or something, but http nada as well

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I suppose it’s really not that big of an issue, the “setup” part is really quick and then your in the cluster GUI or CLI like normal and can set everything else up

pure hatch
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I would suspect the “client” being used had an improper network setup and likely couldn’t find a route to the Netapp.

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I’ve had that happen and then just go doh! to myself

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I generally just use the cli all the way anyway. So many tweaks to make in secure environments that just can’t be done from the GUI