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FrinkTheBrave
Asked: 2011-11-27 12:57:47 +0800 CST

HP ACU CLI Examples

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Has anyone used the HP Array Configuration Utility Command Line Interface (hpacucli.exe) to get physical disk information into a file?

I'm not at the machine right now, but basically I want to find out what the state of each of the physical disks in my server, i.e. Good, Failed, Failure predicted, Rebuilding, missing etc.

I want to run this from a script, so a single (or set of) commands I can pipe to a file is what I'm looking for.

hp hp-proliant hardware-raid hp-smart-array

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    My favorite example:

    This can be run from the shell or within the tool.

    hpacucli ctrl all show config (use hpacucli.exe for Windows)

    Or

    hpacucli ctrl all show config detail

    But, if you have the HP Management Agents installed anyway, you should have realtime monitoring of RAID status pushing back to email alerts or an external monitoring system. Either way, this can generate a point-in-time output/status. 

    [root@Bootylicious ~]# hpacucli ctrl all show config

Smart Array P410i in Slot 0 (Embedded)    (sn: 50123456789ABCDE)

   array A (SAS, Unused Space: 0 MB)


      logicaldrive 1 (1.6 TB, RAID 1+0, OK)

      physicaldrive 1I:1:1 (port 1I:box 1:bay 1, SAS, 600.1 GB, OK)
      physicaldrive 1I:1:2 (port 1I:box 1:bay 2, SAS, 600.1 GB, OK)
      physicaldrive 1I:1:3 (port 1I:box 1:bay 3, SAS, 600.1 GB, OK)
      physicaldrive 1I:1:4 (port 1I:box 1:bay 4, SAS, 600.1 GB, OK)
      physicaldrive 2I:1:5 (port 2I:box 1:bay 5, SAS, 600.1 GB, OK)
      physicaldrive 2I:1:6 (port 2I:box 1:bay 6, SAS, 600.1 GB, OK)
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  2. I understand you use windows OS on your host. Please find list of useful commands for hpacucli for Linux. You might find some of them useful anyway.

    sudo /usr/sbin/hpacucli controller all show status
/usr/sbin/hpacucli ctrl slot=1 pd all show detail|grep -i -P '.*(physicaldrive|Firmware|Status).*'
sudo /usr/sbin/hpacucli ctrl all show
sudo /usr/sbin/hpacucli ctrl slot=5 pd all show

    show disk physical info

    for I in `sudo /usr/sbin/hpacucli ctrl all show | awk '{ print $6 }'`; do sudo /usr/sbin/hpacucli ctrl slot=$I pd all show; done

    show disk logical info

    for I in `sudo /usr/sbin/hpacucli ctrl all show | awk '{ print $6 }'`; do sudo /usr/sbin/hpacucli ctrl slot=$I pd all show; done

    BBU Controller info

    for I in `sudo /usr/sbin/hpacucli ctrl all show | awk '{ print $6 }'`; do sudo /usr/sbin/hpacucli ctrl slot=$I show detail; done

    switch on disk ID light

    sudo /usr/sbin/hpacucli ctrl slot=4 pd 1E:1:13 modify led=on

    some other ...

    for I in `sudo /usr/sbin/hpacucli ctrl all show | awk '{ print $6 }'`; do sudo /usr/sbin/hpacucli ctrl slot=$I show; done

sudo /usr/sbin/hpacucli ctrl slot=4 pd 1E:1:13 show

for I in `sudo /usr/sbin/hpacucli ctrl all show | awk '{ print $6 }'`; do sudo /usr/sbin/hpacucli ctrl slot=$I show detail|grep -i -P '.*(physicaldrive|Firmware|Status).*'; done
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  3. There are already existing monitoring scripts that do this (for Nagios for example).
    Here is how it would work (adjust controller ID accordingly): 

    hpacucli.exe ctrl all show
Smart Array XXX in Slot 2     (sn: XXXXXXXXXXXX)

hpacucli.exe controller slot=2 physicaldrive all show status
physicaldrive 1:0 (port 1:id 0, X GB): OK
physicaldrive 1:1 (port 1:id 1, X GB): OK
physicaldrive 1:2 (port 1:id 2, X GB): OK
physicaldrive 1:3 (port 1:id 3, X GB): OK
physicaldrive 1:4 (port 1:id 4, X GB): OK
physicaldrive 1:5 (port 1:id 5, X GB): OK

hpacucli.exe controller slot=2 logicaldrive all show status
logicaldrive 1 (X GB, RAID 5):  OK
logicaldrive 2 (X GB, RAID 5):  OK
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