Monitor HW Raid with Dell OpenManage

I get in work some Dell servers and I was interested how to monitor HW Raid, so here is short
how-to.

Installation

First we add Dell repo to our system.

#wget -q -O - http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/latest/bootstrap.cgi | bash

Now we can istall src-admin, it’s Dell utility to manage Dell servers.

#yum install srvadmin-all

If we ger error about about unsupported system, we can use this command.

#touch /opt/dell/srvadmin/lib/openmanage/IGNORE_GENERATION

We start OpenManagement.

#/opt/dell/srvadmin/sbin/srvadmin-services.sh start
Starting Systems Management Device Drivers:
Starting dell_rbu:                                         [  OK  ]
Starting ipmi driver:                                      [  OK  ]
Starting Systems Management Device Drivers:
Starting dell_rbu: Already started                         [  OK  ]
Starting ipmi driver:                                      [  OK  ]
Starting Systems Management Data Engine:
Starting dsm_sa_datamgrd:                                  [  OK  ]
Starting dsm_sa_eventmgrd:                                 [  OK  ]
Starting DSM SA Shared Services:                           [  OK  ]
Starting DSM SA Connection Service:                        [  OK  ]

Monitoring

We create symlink to omreport – Raid utility.

ln -s /opt/dell/srvadmin/bin/omreport /sbin/omreport

We add rights for system users.

#chmod +s /opt/dell/srvadmin/bin/omreport

And now we can look at our HW Raid status.

$/sbin/omreport storage vdisk
Controller PERC 3/Di (Embedded)
ID                       : 0
Status                   : Ok
Name                     : RAID5           _
State                    : Ready
HotSpare Policy violated : Not Applicable
Virtual Disk Bad Blocks  : Not Applicable
Secured                  : Not Applicable
Progress                 : Not Applicable
Layout                   : RAID-5
Size                     : 273.43 GB (293595512832 bytes)
Device Name              : /dev/sda
Bus Protocol             : SCSI
Media                    : HDD
Read Policy              : Read Cache Enabled
Write Policy             : Write Cache Enabled Protected
Cache Policy             : Not Applicable
Stripe Element Size      : 64 KB
Disk Cache Policy        : Not Applicable

If we want more detailed ouput we can use command.

$omreport storage pdisk controller=0
List of Physical Disks on Controller PERC 3/Di (Embedded)

Controller PERC 3/Di (Embedded)
ID                        : 0:0
Status                    : Ok
Name                      : Physical Disk 0:0
State                     : Online
Failure Predicted         : No
Certified                 : Not Applicable
Encryption Capable        : No
Secured                   : Not Applicable
Progress                  : Not Applicable
Bus Protocol              : SCSI
Media                     : HDD
Capacity                  : 33.90 GB (36398759936 bytes)
Used RAID Disk Space      : 33.90 GB (36398759936 bytes)
Available RAID Disk Space : 0.00 GB (0 bytes)
Hot Spare                 : No
Vendor ID                 : MAXTOR
Product ID                : ATLAS10K4_36SCA
Revision                  : DFM0
Serial No.                : Not Available
Part Number               : Not Available
Negotiated Speed          : Not Available
Capable Speed             : Not Available
Manufacture Day           : Not Available
Manufacture Week          : Not Available
Manufacture Year          : Not Available
SAS Address               : Not Available

ID                        : 0:1
Status                    : Ok
Name                      : Physical Disk 0:1
State                     : Online
Failure Predicted         : No
Certified                 : Not Applicable
Encryption Capable        : No
Secured                   : Not Applicable
Progress                  : Not Applicable
Bus Protocol              : SCSI
Media                     : HDD
Capacity                  : 33.90 GB (36398759936 bytes)
Used RAID Disk Space      : 33.90 GB (36398759936 bytes)
Available RAID Disk Space : 0.00 GB (0 bytes)
Hot Spare                 : No
Vendor ID                 : MAXTOR
Product ID                : ATLAS10K4_36SCA
Revision                  : DFM0
Serial No.                : Not Available
Part Number               : Not Available
Negotiated Speed          : Not Available
Capable Speed             : Not Available
Manufacture Day           : Not Available
Manufacture Week          : Not Available
Manufacture Year          : Not Available
SAS Address               : Not Available

ID                        : 0:2
Status                    : Ok
Name                      : Physical Disk 0:2
State                     : Online
Failure Predicted         : No
Certified                 : Not Applicable
Encryption Capable        : No
Secured                   : Not Applicable
Progress                  : Not Applicable
Bus Protocol              : SCSI
Media                     : HDD
Capacity                  : 33.90 GB (36398759936 bytes)
Used RAID Disk Space      : 33.90 GB (36398759936 bytes)
Available RAID Disk Space : 0.00 GB (0 bytes)
Hot Spare                 : No
Vendor ID                 : MAXTOR
Product ID                : ATLAS10K4_36SCA
Revision                  : DFM0
Serial No.                : Not Available
Part Number               : Not Available
Negotiated Speed          : Not Available
Capable Speed             : Not Available
Manufacture Day           : Not Available
Manufacture Week          : Not Available
Manufacture Year          : Not Available
SAS Address               : Not Available

ID                        : 0:3
Status                    : Ok
Name                      : Physical Disk 0:3
State                     : Online
Failure Predicted         : No
Certified                 : Not Applicable
Encryption Capable        : No
Secured                   : Not Applicable
Progress                  : Not Applicable
Bus Protocol              : SCSI
Media                     : HDD
Capacity                  : 33.90 GB (36398759936 bytes)
Used RAID Disk Space      : 33.90 GB (36398759936 bytes)
Available RAID Disk Space : 0.00 GB (0 bytes)
Hot Spare                 : No
Vendor ID                 : MAXTOR
Product ID                : ATLAS10K4_36SCA
Revision                  : DFM0
Serial No.                : Not Available
Part Number               : Not Available
Negotiated Speed          : Not Available
Capable Speed             : Not Available
Manufacture Day           : Not Available
Manufacture Week          : Not Available
Manufacture Year          : Not Available
SAS Address               : Not Available

ID                        : 0:4
Status                    : Ok
Name                      : Physical Disk 0:4
State                     : Online
Failure Predicted         : No
Certified                 : Not Applicable
Encryption Capable        : No
Secured                   : Not Applicable
Progress                  : Not Applicable
Bus Protocol              : SCSI
Media                     : HDD
Capacity                  : 33.90 GB (36398759936 bytes)
Used RAID Disk Space      : 33.90 GB (36398759936 bytes)
Available RAID Disk Space : 0.00 GB (0 bytes)
Hot Spare                 : No
Vendor ID                 : MAXTOR
Product ID                : ATLAS10K4_36SCA
Revision                  : DFM0
Serial No.                : Not Available
Part Number               : Not Available
Negotiated Speed          : Not Available
Capable Speed             : Not Available
Manufacture Day           : Not Available
Manufacture Week          : Not Available
Manufacture Year          : Not Available
SAS Address               : Not Available

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