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This is optional functionally, but very handy for your overviews, so that you don't think you have more hot spares than you actually do.Ī rebuild is triggered by having a hot spare present, and an array that actively needs one. eventually remove the hot spare state status from the drive that is now functionally just an Online member (you can't do this while it's still rebuilding).if you have a disk marked as a hot spare, and it is not yet rebuilding onto it, trigger a rebuild (see below).After you physically remove or add a disk, it is usually prudent to make the controller rescan (Īrcconf setstate 1 DEVICE Channel# Device# rdy.channel+device numbers are not the same as the slot number.

If you're next to a server that's beeping (and not in server-room headgear), you and your sanity may like to silence the current alarm (it'll beep again on the next one):

Showing currently running tasks (rebuild, verify, etc.) and their progress: It may tell you an LD has failed or is degraded, but in many cases does not say why.įor that you probably want arcconf GETLOGS (see below), and even then you may have to dig a bit.

PD: Physical device info (the actual disks).

if one drive fell out of the array, that may not be very clear until you count the 'segment information' lines.

LD: Logical device info (the composed drives that are exposed to the system).

AD: adapter (controller) info, including some overall settings, versions of firmware, driver.

which defaults to show various sections:

#INSTALL ADAPTEC STORAGE MANAGER CENTOS FREE#

(Feel free to ignore, or tell me)Īrcconf GETCONFIG gets the basic state of arrays (LDs) and drives (PDs), useful to inspect general health. Inspection, and dealing with failed disks This article/section is a stub - probably a pile of half-sorted notes, is not well-checked so may have incorrect bits. If you want to change this, do something like: The background task defaults to low priority (so won't affect performance too much, but will easily take a day), a verify_fix to high. If you want more control over the time of execution: what it triggers is basically a:Īrcconf task start 1 logicaldrive 0 verify_fix for the default 30 days, or set a different period, If you want it enabled: (and this is recommended if you like your data) The background consistency check seems not to be enabled by default. Using arcconf takes a little bit more learning curve, though there are enough tutorials out there. Setting up PDs and LDs is easier via the card's BIOS utility.

2 Inspection, and dealing with failed disks.

A hot spare can be assigned to one or more LDs, which seems to blend the local/global hot spare distinction.

This may be a single drive passed through as-is, or a RAID array/set made of many drives.

LD refers to a logical device (see also LUN) - the things that the array actually exposes to your OS.

Someone probably spent ages screwing them all in. More recent versions (circa 2012) for linux are around v6ĪSM can be a little finicky, but most of its quirks and workarounds are known well enough. There are older versions floating around.

The manager, a GUI that talks to the agent, and can connect to remote agents, so allows more centralized management.

The agent, a (networked) background service that talks to the driver.

You should be able to do most management with it, though you'll probably want some documentation at your side.Īdaptec Storage Manager (ASM) is the GUI counterpart. Arcconf is the command-line tool (replaces earlier ones, including afacli).

Install Adaptec Storage Manager Centos