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median basin · 2025-09-02T09:56:04.759Z

- new: New Harvest Cisco Rest collector can be configured for MCC IP configurations - new: API tokens can be generated in Security preferences - Harvest 25.08.1 (new deployments only) - Grafana 12.1.1 - Base OS upgrade (Flatcar Container Linux 4230.2.2) https://nabox.org/downloads/

median basin Sep 2, 2025, 9:56 AM

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new: New Harvest Cisco Rest collector can be configured for MCC IP configurations
new: API tokens can be generated in Security preferences
Harvest 25.08.1 (new deployments only)
Grafana 12.1.1
Base OS upgrade (Flatcar Container Linux 4230.2.2)

https://nabox.org/downloads/

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NEW: NAbox 4.0.11 has been release

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NEW: NAbox 4.0.11 has been released

silk dagger Sep 2, 2025, 2:32 PM

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during upgrade, getting stuck at the reboot

[ 3.833595] EXT4-fs (sda9): mounted filesystem 84a5cefa-c3c7-47d7-9305-7e6877f73628 r/w with ordered data mode. Quota mode: none.
[ 3.868979] BTRFS info (device sda6): first mount of filesystem 50e7422b-f0c7-4536-902a-3ab4c864240b
[ 3.874177] BTRFS info (device sda6): using crc32c (crc32c-intel) checksum algorithm
[ 3.878411] BTRFS info (device sda6): using free space tree
[ 3.880192] BTRFS info (device sda6): auto enabling async discard
[ 4.039205] BTRFS info (device sda6): last unmount of filesystem 50e7422b-f0c7-4536-902a-3ab4c864240b
[ 4.084257] BTRFS info (device dm-0): last unmount of filesystem 88a9bed3-d26b-40c9-82ba-dbb7d44acae7
[ 4.086203] EXT4-fs (sda9): unmounting filesystem 84a5cefa-c3c7-47d7-9305-7e6877f73628.

silk dagger Sep 2, 2025, 2:53 PM

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after a while it reboots on its own but sticks at the same place and goes into a boot loop

median basin Sep 2, 2025, 5:56 PM

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What was the previous version ?

silk dagger Sep 2, 2025, 5:58 PM

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4.0.10 f9baaca

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not sure if it matters or not, but I do have an NFS share attached to the previous version that was for the data

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i can send the entire boot log over from the serial console if you want

median basin Sep 2, 2025, 6:35 PM

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that would be it, not sure why though

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or why it would prevent booting

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yes please send the logs

median basin Sep 2, 2025, 6:57 PM

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Well… that’s Hyper-V right ?

silk dagger Sep 2, 2025, 9:34 PM

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yes

median basin Sep 3, 2025, 6:12 AM

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I don't see anything wrong with hyper-v packaging of the update file. Do you have a way to restore a snapshot and log the upgrade ?

silk dagger Sep 3, 2025, 6:15 AM

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dont believe so, i didnt even think about taking a snapshot.

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anyway to do a boot with just bare minimum enabled, no nfs/etc or anything

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let me go look, maybe an older snapshot is around

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hrm. only one available is from 12/26 last year, so doubt it would be useful

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the nfs export has some logs/etc

update.json
{"percent":75,"title":"Rebooting","description":"Rebooting","currentStage":"stage2","doneStages":["stage1"],"finished":false,"started":true,"skipOSUpgrade":false}

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about to head out, will restore the snapshot in a couple of hours when i start working again

median basin Sep 3, 2025, 6:37 AM

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I think serial dump is missing informations actually sent to screen, not entirely sure though, if you can take a look at actual screen if something more helful is in there

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I'm comparing a vmware boot with the serial Hyper-V boot (couldn't figure out if VMware flatcar has serial enabled, it doesn't look like it) and I can definitely make up things similar formatted as raw output, and some additional logs on the vmware side on screen

silk dagger Sep 3, 2025, 6:39 AM

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anyway to enable something to log via the boot menu?

median basin Sep 3, 2025, 6:39 AM

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Not that I'm aware 🙁 I was actually screen recording the vmware boot 😄

silk dagger Sep 3, 2025, 6:46 AM

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that's the only other thing that gets show in the serial console, then it does "restarting system" and reboots, over and over

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serial console.... the actual console of the system, whatever you call it but that's what azure calls it

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after i take a nap and start back to work i'll export the drive and put it on a local hyper-v machine, see what it does.
I'll also push out a new system with that snapshot and do the upgrade from there, as well as a new build with the hope of being able to restore the data from the old system if all else fails.

thanks, i'll be back in a couple of hours

desert tinsel Sep 3, 2025, 9:50 AM

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Hello, updated yesterday, so far so good.

neat nexus Sep 3, 2025, 10:40 AM

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Same here, have seen no issues after update.

median basin Sep 3, 2025, 8:53 PM

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Ah it’s not only hyper-v but azure.

If there is no error maybe it’s stuck upgrading forever ? You’re never getting to the login prompt or ssh availability ?

silk dagger Sep 3, 2025, 9:41 PM

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correct, it goes through that startup cycle i sent you over and over

mossy sigil Sep 5, 2025, 4:58 AM

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@median basin uprade from 4.0.10 to 4.0.11 worked smooth in our VMware environment 😊 very good job with the new version specially the easy integration of the switches

silk dagger Sep 5, 2025, 2:39 PM

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have not been able to get anything to boot back into this, so I'm going to build a new instance.
Hopefully there is a way I can pull the data and config over from the old install?

median basin Sep 6, 2025, 7:40 AM

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We can figure this out, you can attach de data drive and we can check what's available

void moat Sep 19, 2025, 7:52 AM

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Hi @median basin
I’m planning to migrate the NAbox 3 to 4 ; I have question -

if we migrate the NAbox then grafana address will also change and whoever is using old grafana address should be moved to new address
what if even manual migration fails - can we roll back
Thank you

median basin Sep 19, 2025, 9:51 AM

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you could keep the IP address when migration is done for minimal disruption. There might be some changes related to harvest dashboards evolving but chances are it’ll be fine.
since it’s an actual migration, the old appliance can keep running and doesn’t skip a beat, so yes, people still use nabox3 until you’re all set with NAbox 4

void moat Sep 19, 2025, 12:26 PM

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median basin 1) you could keep the IP address when migration is done for minimal disruption. ...

Thanks a lot Yann

As I understand after migration all will be migrated too NAbox4 but we can keep using both as we will have different IPs , that looks nice as we can have some issues post migration on NAbox4 grafana dashboard , till the time I will be all good with NAbox4 I wil keep using 3

ashen lance Sep 24, 2025, 1:26 PM

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The update worked like a charm, thank you so much for this wonderful tool! I especially like the new feature to monitor the switches from the Metrocluster.

void moat Oct 3, 2025, 11:54 AM

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So as I understand it will only monitor CISCO switch

metro cluster
inter cluster switch
fabric switch - not supported

Can you please help me with the documents to add settings on the switch

red hemlock Oct 3, 2025, 12:10 PM

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Hi @void moat did you see this documentation? https://netapp.github.io/harvest/nightly/prepare-cisco-switch/

void moat Oct 3, 2025, 12:12 PM

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Thanks Chris

silk dagger Oct 21, 2025, 2:13 PM

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@median basin Hey, coming back around to this since the failed upgrade.
i have a new install setup, just need to see if we can migrate the data from the old disks to the new one without losing all of it's data or configs

median basin Oct 23, 2025, 12:47 PM

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You were using nfs right ?

silk dagger Oct 23, 2025, 2:09 PM

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yes

median basin Oct 23, 2025, 6:00 PM

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So can you just reattach the mount ? Or you won't be using NFS now ?

silk dagger Oct 23, 2025, 6:11 PM

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i can still use NFS, but will that bring over the old config/etc

median basin Oct 27, 2025, 7:59 AM

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Ok, for the config you can just copy harvest.yml file, and meybe the .env.custom file

silk dagger Oct 27, 2025, 8:26 PM

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alrighty.
got the 2 files copied over, but can't log in to grafana and all the settings for network, ldap, ssl and email are gone

median basin Oct 28, 2025, 8:17 PM

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so, the whole nabox directory should be fine. I'm just not sure what could have been changed and was hesitant to tell you to move everything over. SSL is in /etc/nabox/secrets/ssl, ldap is in /etc/nabox/grafana/ldap.toml, network is /etc/systemd/network/10-nabox.network and email is /etc/nabox/alertmanager/alertmanager.yml

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