@kagbasi-ngc I figured out what the problem was, so wanted to post it for the benefit of the community.

The root cause for me ended up being a firewall issue on the Windows Server where I was running the NFS server role. While I hadn't made any changes to the firewall, the profile of the network interface connected to the management network had changed from Domain to Public/Private, thus, Windows Defender Firewall applied the most restrictive settings since it saw that the NIC wasn't connected to the Domain profile (even though it physically was).

This post on Serverfault (https://serverfault.com/a/647201/189248) clued me in and I looked at the Network Location Awareness service (NLA). It was set automatic and was running, so I restarted it and this reverted the profile of the NIC back to Domain and caused Windows Defender Firewall to apply the previously configured rules.

It is important to note that this situation won't be common, as most of you won't be running your NAS on a dual-homed domain controller that is also running the DHCP server role. Hope this helps someone.

@Prilly Looks like @lawrencesystems has a good explainer video on YouTube at https://youtu.be/weVoKm8kDb4?si=QH93rOKaXLglrIbS

Check it out when you get a chance, thanks.

@lsouai-vates Duly noted.

If amd when you do get a moment, could you have a look at https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/94297 and offer up any guidance on how I can stop the debug log entries and also the double timestamp entries in the audit.log file?

Thank you.

@ThasianXi Thanks, I will checkout the resources you've shared. I already figured out the XCP-ng side and wanted to get the XO side as well.

Thanks again.

@nathanael-h Yeah, I've already done that several times and no luck.

What I'm gonna try now is see if I can boot it with the Windows installation disk, go into recovery and access the WinPE command line, and see if I can run xenbootfix.exe to clean out the guest tools/drivers.

If that doesn't work, I'll just blow away the VM and start over. I just hate doing this, cos it doesn't give us the chance to figure out why this happened.

@olivierlambert Cool, I'll run the other two when I get back. I'll kick them off simultaneously.

@olivierlambert No sir, I have not. I'll try that and report back shortly.

Thanks to both of you, I adjust accordingly.

The strange thing is that, I have an open ticket and the way I've always corresponded with the team is by simply replying to that email and it's always gotten through. This is the first time I've seen that bounce (which suggests a change somewhere).

No worries though, I'll just log into the helpdesk portal and add a comment directly to the ticket.

@Chico008 Seems like you're duplicating your inquiries. As I suggested in the previous thread, I think your memberOf is missing the full DN of the group.

@Chico008 I suspect it's failing because memberOf must have the full Distinguished Name (DN) of the group, not just the group name.

@olivierlambert You got it, I'll do that. Thank you.

@olivierlambert Understood, however, I'm failing to see what part of my posting was irrelevant to the topic at hand. I was merely sharing what I'd experienced as well and providing context.

I thought this was the kind of feedback expected of community members, who want to see this project flourish?

@Tristis-Oris Just wanted to add my 2-cents that I, too, ran into a similar issue just a couple of days ago and it feels like this could be a bug.

My scenario:

I had a fully working three-node pool. One of the hosts had a 12 CPUs, whereas the other two had 16 each - so I would occasionally run into errors with the load-balancer trying to migrate VMs (usually something like "VM Lacks Feature"). So I decided to replace that host with another one that was identical to the other two hosts.

I did what I thought was logical; detached that host from the pool, installed XCP-ng 8.3 on the new host, gave it the same hostname and IP address, used the same root password, then powered it up. Now, without doing anything at all, when I went into XO and viewed the Pools page I saw the new host in a pool by itself (which was strange, because I wasn't expecting that). I was expecting to have to manually add a new server to XO - but hey, perhaps there is some kinda discovery going on.

Anyway, I attempted to add this new host to the pool but was unsuccessful. I was met with an error about the SDN certificate existing. Unfortunately, I didn't write it down. But ultimately, the solution for me was to run the same xe pool-uninstall-ca-certificate name=sdn-controller-ca.pem command on the new host.

Anyone from Vates care to comment?

@JBlessing You're welcome!

@JBlessing At the bottom of the release page (https://github.com/xcp-ng/xenadmin/releases/tag/v25.04) are the links to download either the MSI installer or a Zip file containing the entire application (if you want a portable package).

@lsouai-vates Duly noted.

If amd when you do get a moment, could you have a look at https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/94297 and offer up any guidance on how I can stop the debug log entries and also the double timestamp entries in the audit.log file?

Thank you.

@lsouai-vates Actually I do. Don't want to derail this thread, mind if I DM you? I promise not to monopolize your time.

@lsouai-vates No worries, I think we can mark this issue as resolved (or close it altogether).

While capturing the screenshots for you, I noticed that I was holding the mouse cursor over the sidebar - thus preventing it from collapsing. Once I click anywhere else on the page, the sidebar collapsed accordingly.

Sorry for causing any panic - the UI looks like it's behaving as designed. Thanks again for engaging so quickly.

Good-day Folks,

XOCE Version: Commit 2effd85

Wondering if anyone else is seeing this behavior on XO6 on Commit 2effd85. Looks like if you click the Lock Sidebar button, the sidebar locks indeed, however, the whole page still behaves as if you'd clicked on the Close Sidebar button.

I created an animated GIF to share, but it's not allowed here so unable to share it directly. So I uploaded it to my Google Photos account, here's a link: https://photos.app.goo.gl/RVT1CE19tPv8SbF37

@abudef I know your question was targeted to the Vates team, however, I'd like to chime in....if that's ok?

As a Windows SysAdmin, myself, I had to eat the proverbial "humble pie" and eventually learn Linux to take advantage of a lot Opensource software. It goes without saying, that you'll have to do the same here.

Now, if you really wanted to, you could install XO from sources using Ronivay's script into a Debian VM running on VirtualBox or Hyper-V on your Windows machine, then use that to manage your pool.