I purchased an iXsystems FreeNAS mini in January 2015. On Monday or Tuesday last week, it just dropped off the face of the earth and I have no idea what happened.
Essentially, I went to connect to our network share and it failed. Tried again, failed. Tried to connect to the FreeNAS web administration page; no joy. Connected to the IPMI control interface and the system appeared to be running without any logged anomalies. I attempted an orderly shutdown which failed twice. I then did an "immediate" power-down via IPMI followed by a reboot. The system never returned a ping except via the IPMI interface and the web administration page never came up.
I attached a VGA monitor and USB keyboard and rebooted again. The monitor says there is "no signal." The ethernet cable - whether attached to the 1st or 2nd port do not light up green and the amber light blinks very slowly.
Since setting it up, it's been running in a cool (~65-70 degree) dry basement connected to a UPS. I'm aware of no major power events and didn't recently attempt any software upgrades or config changes.
I've got a Serial-to-USB cable (DBDB9) that I think I got from Dynex that I've used to connect to my pfSense router before, but I cannot seem to connect properly to the system or the system won't connect via serial either.
I'm totally flummoxed. Hopeful that the data is intact, but at a loss as to how to recover the system. Any help/suggestions would be MUCH appreciated.
Essentially, I went to connect to our network share and it failed. Tried again, failed. Tried to connect to the FreeNAS web administration page; no joy. Connected to the IPMI control interface and the system appeared to be running without any logged anomalies. I attempted an orderly shutdown which failed twice. I then did an "immediate" power-down via IPMI followed by a reboot. The system never returned a ping except via the IPMI interface and the web administration page never came up.
I attached a VGA monitor and USB keyboard and rebooted again. The monitor says there is "no signal." The ethernet cable - whether attached to the 1st or 2nd port do not light up green and the amber light blinks very slowly.
Since setting it up, it's been running in a cool (~65-70 degree) dry basement connected to a UPS. I'm aware of no major power events and didn't recently attempt any software upgrades or config changes.
I've got a Serial-to-USB cable (DBDB9) that I think I got from Dynex that I've used to connect to my pfSense router before, but I cannot seem to connect properly to the system or the system won't connect via serial either.
I'm totally flummoxed. Hopeful that the data is intact, but at a loss as to how to recover the system. Any help/suggestions would be MUCH appreciated.