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PowerFlex Manager Platform (PFMP) is healthy and functional.The new PowerFlex resource group was deployed successfullyWhen trying to log in for the first time, the login fails: [root@l-storage1 ~]# scli --login --username admin --management_system_ip test.powerflex.lab --password xxxxxxx --insecure Successfully generated login certificate at /root/.scli/cli_cert.p12 Failed to validate certificate /root/.scli/cli_cert.p12. Reason: CERTIFICATE_NOT_YET_VALID Error: Failed to connect to MDM 127.0.0.1:8611 Impact The user cannot admin log in to the PowerFlex system nodes using scli.
During PowerFlex resource group deployment, NTP was configured, however, due to a software code issue, nodes were not configured with NTP, resulting in an older date/time on the PowerFlex nodes. Note: This issue is only seen when using CentOS 7 / Red Hat 7 OS image (image name: "DellEMC-PowerFlex-EmbeddedOS-7-x86_64.iso") during deployment but other OS images might be impacted.
Configure the date/time or NTP manually on each PowerFlex node and retry logging in. Steps to add the customer's internal NTP server details into chrony.conf Type the following command to enter the editor: vi /etc/chrony.conf Use "I" key to enter Insert modeUse up arrow to navigate the cursor under the line "# Use public servers from the pool.ntp.org project."Press Enter to start a new lineType in the customer's NTP server details server <NTP IP Address or server name> iburst Example: server 10.10.105.240 iburst Press esc to escape out of insert mode and then type " : wq" to save and exit vi editorUse this command to check to make sure the new line is added: cat /etc/chrony.conf | grep server Restart the chronyd service once you have verified that the NTP settings are correct. systemctl restart chronyd Verify service restarted successfully: systemctl status chronyd Once service is restarted successfully, check to make sure NTP is now showing connected. chronyc tracking Once NTP shows that it is connected, retry the login scli --login --management_system_ip [PFxM ingress IP] --username admin Note: The above steps must be performed on all SDSs especially those with MDM roles, to ensure that they are able to connect to the certificates successfully. Impacted Version PowerFlex 4.x Fixed In Version PowerFlex 4.6.1
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