topic Re: Connecting to FAS 3170 in ONTAP Hardware

Connecting to FAS 3170

solvire — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 22:26:06 GMT

I picked up a FAS3170 and for the life of me can't seem to get onto the controllers.

I tried a serial connector from MAC USB and only get blank screen so I am obviosly doing something wrong. I tried two adapters so I am not sure what I am doing there. I tried the serial.app from decisivetactics.com to see if a gui could help me but failed with that one as well.

I plugged the management ports into the switch and tried to hit the default IP addresses

Management Port	Controller A	Controller B
1	192.168.128.101	192.168.128.102
2	192.168.129.101	192.168.129.102

They didn't respond at all.

Maybe the previous owner didn't reset anything.

Can the networking settings be reset?

Pardon my lack of knowledge on this topic, but I am stuck.

Re: Connecting to FAS 3170

aborzenkov — Thu, 24 Dec 2015 05:18:35 GMT

NetApp does not have any default IP; not sure where you got them from, nor what ports 1 and 2 mean.

Are you sure you are using correct ports and cables. I have no issues using e.g. Cisco console cable with two different USB-to-serial adapters and PuTTY. You need to use 9600, 8 bits, no parity, no flow control.

What ports do you connect to?

Re: Connecting to FAS 3170

solvire — Thu, 24 Dec 2015 18:17:44 GMT

Thanks for the response.

I tried 3 different brands and finally got one that worked.

I'm using the plugable brand db9 to USB adapter and Serial.app.

For anyone who wants to know this might save a few trips to radio shed.

http://plugable.com/products/pl2303-db9

9600 baud and vt100 display. That got me in there.

I pulled the default IP addresses from:

https://kb.netapp.com/support/index?page=content&id=3013407&impressions=false

I guess it's e-series but figured the FAS model would be the same.

I got in eventually so I guess this is closed down.

Cheers!