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Discovery Fundamentals On Demand - Unable to complete task - validate MID server

Terje Nilima Mo
Tera Expert

I am taking the Discovery Fundamentals On Demand course, and I am failing the task "Validate mid server".

 

When opening the MID Servers it says that the assigned MID server is down and not validated.

If I attempt to validate it, it says "validating" forever.

I am not able to RDP into the assigned MID server because 'learner' does not work with the provided password.

 

I have asked the automation to create a new instance, but this has the same issues; no valid MID server and not able to RDP into the server that should be running it to see if I can fix it.

 

I am therefore unable to complete this step, and without a functioning MID server the rest of the course is moot.

 

How to fix?

 

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Terje Nilima Mo
Tera Expert

Well, today is a new day, and after waking the instance from hibernation I was able to RDP into the MID server using the same user name and password as I did yesterday.


Also after waking from hibernation the MID server was showing as "Up" albeit not validated. Clicking Validate did successfully validate the MID server.

So I guess the solution was to let the session go into hibernation and waking it again. Not the most intuitive or best user experience.

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Hello @Bhuvan  

I thank you for your engagement, and I do not want to discourage you from contributing, but rather provide feedback as to why your posts in this case were not helpful.

Your first answer linked to a suggestion to RDP into the MID server, even though I had specified that I was not able to RDP into the MID server because the username and password were not accepted. Then you suggested again that I RDP into the MID server below the link, again, after I specified that I was not able to RDP into the MID server. You then proceeded to suggest that I re-provision the instance even though I specified that i asked the automation to create a new instance and that had the same issues.

Your second reply suggest that there might be a white space when copying the password, completely disregarding that I wrote that I had carefully both typed and copied the password. You then suggested that I use the IP in stead of the FQDN, but if the issue was one of not reaching the MID server then the error would not be that the username and password were not accepted, but rather that the server did not accept the connection.

 

The most helpful item in your post was the suggestion to create a case with ServiceNow University support team, and that would have been my next step had the issue not resolved it self by the instance hibernating and waking up.

 

If you wish to be more helpful, please make sure that you thoroughly read and understand the issue that people are having, and do not provide suggestions that are already addressed in the original post. 

 

Again, thank you for volunteering your time to help others with their problems.

@Terje Nilima Mo 

 

Thanks for your suggestions. We share our expertise based on past experience for similar issues. It might be the case that it was not helpful in this instance to resolve your issue. It would help if you can share screenshots in future as it make things easier to understand the issue.

 

Wish you a happy learning !

 

Thanks,

Bhuvan

_anudeep
Mega Contributor

I am not sure if this is the actual solution but this is what I have done

 

On the list view, i edited the "Status" field from "Down" to "Up"

Screenshot 2025-09-29 at 5.19.52 PM.pngnow inside the "windows_mid" record, at the "Related Links" located at the bottom, Click on "Restart MID". After restart, I clicked on "Validate MID", after 20 min the server is validated.

 

I honestly think just press on "Validate MID" without doing anything and wait for 20-60 min. It takes really long time for this to validate.