Is there any CLI for checking HW raid status with R610 + centos 5.6 SE?

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Hi, we have 40x Dell R610 which were setup by staff who left years ago.  35 have centos 5.6 SE, 5 have windows server 2008. We need to see if they are using HW raid, and get the raid status (i.e. that both mirrored HDs are ok) for all 40 as a one of  exercise before we migrate them. Searching around, there seem to be three options: 1) openmanage 2) LSI command line tools. 3) Attach a console, power off/on and look at bios settings. 1) openmanage seems like a beast, which requires a separate server with a gui desktop talking to agents installed on target machines.  This is not practical, as we have only linux boxes in the DC (we dont want to risk the prod env by installing something on the cricial windows servers, but could if there was absolutely no other option) , none have x11 installed, and all are separated by several levels of firewall with very few ports open.  T the learning curve for installing and configuring openmanage looks prohibitive for this task. 2) We cant find any download for these.  Some posts have dead links. 3) console is not an option, firstly the DC is in another country, secondly we cant switch off a live machine. So the problem is we need a simple command line interface, ideally with an rpm package, stand alone app or similar we can copy locally to each machine.  Anyone know if such a thing exists, and, if so, where we can download it from? We dont know the exact HW specs, but we think they have the 6iR, H200 or H700 (or some combination). Sorry for the noob question.

johnvlittle · Answer

Interestingly, lspci returns this:

RAID bus controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic LSI MegaSAS 9260 (rev 05)

This is a vital clue. Unfortunately, on the lis.com website, there are 2 versions: the MegaRaid SAS 9260-16i and the -4i.

Ill try each in turn and hope it doesn't cause problems.

We still have NBD support contract on these servers.

johnvlittle · Answer

Found a post which said that there is a stand alone version of openmange, and said how to work out which of the 20 or so openmange downloads to take from the servers support page. Unfortuntely, only RHEL is supported - no support for Centos, even though they are more or less the same.

Downladed openmanage stand alone version from here:

http://downloads-us.dell.com/FOLDER01540166M/1/OM-SrvAdmin-Dell-Web-LX-7.3.0-350_A00.RHEL5.x86_64.tar.gz

unziped/targed and did this:

# sh linux/supportscripts/srvadmin-install.sh --express

This gives the following two errors:

Warning: The lockfile utility is not found in PATH or /usr/bin.
This utility prevents concurrent executions of srvadmin-install.sh
which can lead to unexpected or invalid installation results.

Unrecognized Operating System or Architecture. This script cannot
continue with the installation. Select rpms from the OS folder in
the media that closely matches this Operating System to continue
with the manual install.

The second one is saying that the RHEL wont install on Centos.

So looks like open manage is not an option.

Now trying to get the LSI tools working.

johnvlittle · Answer

I installed the latest latest MegaRaid StorCli for MegaSAS 9260 from here:

http://www.lsi.com/support/Pages/download-results.aspx?productcode=P00100&assettype=0&component=Storage%20Component&productfamily=RAID%20Controllers&productname=MegaRAID%20SAS%209260-16i

Installed with no errors.

When I do this:

# /opt/MegaRAID/storcli/storcli64 show all

I get this:

Number of Controllers = 0

Which is not right as we have the perc H700 at least installed and configured.

If i do

# lspci

It gives:

03:00.0 RAID bus controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic LSI MegaSAS 9260 (rev 05)

So openManage wont install, and the lsi tools cant see the lsi card.

any other ideas?

DELL-Chris H · Answer

Johnvlittle,

I would suggest using LSI's MegaCLI. Which you can find here - http://www.lsi.com/Pages/user/eula.aspx?file=http%3a%2f%2fwww.lsi.com%2fdownloads%2fPublic%2fObsolete%2fObsolete%2520Common%2520Files%2f1.01.39_Linux_Cli.zip&Source=http%3a%2f%2fwww.lsi.com%2fSearch%2fPages%2fresults.aspx%3fk%3dmegacli%26r%3dos%253D%2522AQVMaW51eAJvcwEBXgEk%2522

That will allow you to access the controller via CLI.

Let me know if this helps.

johnvlittle · Answer

Chris, the link you gave says its for the following adapters:

MegaRAID SAS 84016E
MegaRAID SAS 8408E
MegaRAID SAS 8480E
MegaRAID SAS 8308ELP
MegaRAID SAS 8344ELP
MegaRAID SAS 8304ELP
MegaRAID SAS 8300XLP
MegaRAID SAS 8708EM2
MegaRAID SAS 8880EM2

These do not correspond to the adapters in the R610, as reported by lspci. Are you sure this is the correct LSI package?

PowerEdge HDD/SCSI/RAID

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