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July 3rd, 2012 11:00

ProSphere - Unable to login after initial deployment

Hello -

I just deployed 1.6 in my lab and the vApp comes up fine.  When I hit the main page to log in using appadmin/Changeme1! it won't accept the credentials.  I also tried them on the console of the SRM (app) VM and it tells me the credentials are invalid.

I powered the vApp off and back on with no success.  I also verified that IE has TLS 1.0 enabled.

Thanks for your help!

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August 15th, 2012 08:00

Figured it out.  The problem was I included underscores in the FQDNs of the individual components of the Prosphere vApp.  The error I would get was basically:

The login failed due to a the service not responding or the incorrect role was assigned.  Please contact EMC support for help.

I deleted the vApp and re-deployed without underscores and it worked fine.  I did see where the it was not recommended to use underscores in the deployment guide.  It would be nice if the guide was more definitive on not using underscores.

So - if you get a login error and you ARE SURE you are using the right username and password - you might make sure you do not use underscores in the hostnames of the vApp components.

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July 5th, 2012 07:00

Hi James,

Can you please check if the Keyboard is set to English-US?

Thanks,

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July 5th, 2012 11:00

Ram,

Are you referring to the Keyboard setting on my PC?  I checked and it is.  Is there another place in the vApp settings for VM settings to set that?

Thanks,

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July 9th, 2012 03:00

Hi James,

I was referring to the Keyboard setting on your PC, there are no other settings in ProSphere.

Some other pointers I can suggest,

- Try a different browser other than IE.

- copy paste the username password from a notepad on to ProSphere UI

- Also please check if the MD5 checksum for the downloaded ProSphere VMDKs match to that in Powerlink

Thanks,
Ram

August 15th, 2012 08:00

Not sure why ProSphere documentation does not give a warning about hostnames.  But it is a standard naming convention that underscore is not permitted.  The following quote is from RFC952, DOD INTERNET HOST TABLE SPECIFICATION

ASSUMPTIONS

   1. A "name" (Net, Host, Gateway, or Domain name) is a text string up
   to 24 characters drawn from the alphabet (A-Z), digits (0-9), minus
   sign (-), and period (.).  Note that periods are only allowed when
   they serve to delimit components of "domain style names". (See
   RFC-921, "Domain Name System Implementation Schedule", for
   background).  No blank or space characters are permitted as part of a
   name. No distinction is made between upper and lower case.  The first
   character must be an alpha character.  The last character must not be
   a minus sign or period.

RFC1123 relaxed the first character rule to permit an alpha or numeric character, and mandated you must handle 63 character length hostnames, and you "should" handle 255 character hostnames.

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