Unfortunately, the backend re-init requires an EMC rep to complete. This is a lengthy process and will require 4 to 8 hours to complete and requires a great deal of work to be done by EMC.  Also, the answer to your other question is no, completing a destructive install from the code CD would not erase FLARE. The destructive install for the control station only reformats the internal control station disk. Further if the NAS system was not destroyed prior the CD would not allow you to continue an install of the NAS system so as to protect the box from accidentally being re-imaged. The system would recognize that the NAS control LUNs already exists and would not continue. That is why an EMC rep would have needed to go out there to do a backend cleanup of prior control luns before a reinstall would have been able to be completed successfully anyways.
We inherited an NS 480 consisting of 3 Frames of storage from our Parent Company. The system was decommissioned before it was given to us and wiped clean, though they left the cabling in each frame intact.  We have tried installing the Celerra software from a code CD that was left in the Control Station. The software installs, reboots and then tries to configure the Network & attach to the System LUN (This is my interpretation). It is at this point that we run in to problems. The control Station can't seem to connect to SP_A. In the log it shows that the Control Center is trying to connect to 128.221.252.200 and can't.  All of the troubleshooting documents I found refer to running commands from the /NAS folder but we can't mount the /NAS folder.  Is there a way I can confirm that SP_A is using the default IP Address of 128.221.252.200.  Thanks  Jon
Initial NS480 Celerra Install Question