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jimbobmcgee
Asked: 2013-09-27 09:40:22 +0800 CST

Remote discovery/inventory of attached disk enclosures

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I have a handful of HP DL3xx G7 servers, that I know have HP D2600 disk units attached via P411 SmartArray controllers.

I can see info about the array controllers and the disks (via the Array Configuration Utility and the System Management Homepage); I can use various OS tools to see the on-board devices (e.g. by Windows Device Manager, WMI; or Linux lshal); I can see the volumes (Windows Device Manager/Disk Management; Linux fdisk) but nothing about the physical enclosures, themselves.

I was really just trying to answer some basic questions (e.g. the serial numbers of the enclosures) without having to go to the data centre.

The servers are running a RHEL-based Linux and I just thought it was my own lack of understanding of Linux, but I also can't seem to discover these in Windows either.

Am I going mad? Blind? Or can you really not remotely or programatically retrieve information about such devices attached to your server?

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    This can be achieved entirely through the HP System Management Tools. You'll need the Array Configuration Utility in either its graphical (web) or command line forms (hpacucli).

    Here's the output from an HP Storageworks D2700 enclosure connected to a Smart Array P812 RAID controller. Note that port WWID's, HP product numbers and serial numbers are included in the output.

    => controller slot=1 enclosure all show detail

Smart Array P812 in Slot 1

   StorageWorks D2700 at Port 1E, Box 1, OK
      Fan Status: OK
      Temperature Status: OK
      Power Supply Status: Redundant
      Vendor ID: HP      
      Serial Number: 5C7147P1KT
      Firmware Version: 0147
      Drive Bays: 25
      Port: 1E
      Box: 1
      Location: External
      Standby Path: 2E:1, OK
      Active Path: 1E:1, OK

   Expander 246
      Device Number: 246
      Firmware Version: 0147
      WWID: 5001438016BEF27D
      Port: 1E
      Box: 1
      Vendor ID: HP      

   Expander 247
      Device Number: 247
      Firmware Version: 0147
      WWID: 5001438016BEF27F
      Port: 2E
      Box: 1
      Vendor ID: HP      

   Enclosure SEP (Vendor ID HP, Model D2700 SAS AJ941A) 244
      Device Number: 244
      Firmware Version: 0147
      WWID: 5001438016BEF27C
      Port: 1E
      Box: 1
      Vendor ID: HP      
      Model: D2700 SAS AJ941A

   Enclosure SEP (Vendor ID HP, Model D2700 SAS AJ941A) 245
      Device Number: 245
      Firmware Version: 0147
      WWID: 5001438016BEF27E
      Port: 2E
      Box: 1
      Vendor ID: HP      
      Model: D2700 SAS AJ941A

   Physical Drives
      physicaldrive 1E:1:1 (port 1E:box 1:bay 1, SAS, 146 GB, OK)
      physicaldrive 1E:1:2 (port 1E:box 1:bay 2, SAS, 146 GB, OK)
      physicaldrive 1E:1:3 (port 1E:box 1:bay 3, SAS, 146 GB, OK)
      physicaldrive 1E:1:4 (port 1E:box 1:bay 4, SAS, 146 GB, OK)
      physicaldrive 1E:1:5 (port 1E:box 1:bay 5, SAS, 146 GB, OK)
      physicaldrive 1E:1:6 (port 1E:box 1:bay 6, SAS, 146 GB, OK)
      physicaldrive 1E:1:7 (port 1E:box 1:bay 7, SAS, 146 GB, OK)
      physicaldrive 1E:1:8 (port 1E:box 1:bay 8, SAS, 146 GB, OK)
      physicaldrive 1E:1:9 (port 1E:box 1:bay 9, SAS, 146 GB, OK, spare)
      physicaldrive 1E:1:10 (port 1E:box 1:bay 10, SAS, 146 GB, OK)
      physicaldrive 1E:1:11 (port 1E:box 1:bay 11, SAS, 146 GB, OK)
      physicaldrive 1E:1:12 (port 1E:box 1:bay 12, SAS, 146 GB, OK)
      physicaldrive 1E:1:13 (port 1E:box 1:bay 13, SAS, 146 GB, OK)
      physicaldrive 1E:1:14 (port 1E:box 1:bay 14, SAS, 146 GB, OK)
      physicaldrive 1E:1:15 (port 1E:box 1:bay 15, SAS, 146 GB, OK)
      physicaldrive 1E:1:16 (port 1E:box 1:bay 16, SAS, 146 GB, OK)
      physicaldrive 1E:1:17 (port 1E:box 1:bay 17, SAS, 146 GB, OK)
      physicaldrive 1E:1:18 (port 1E:box 1:bay 18, SAS, 146 GB, OK)
      physicaldrive 1E:1:19 (port 1E:box 1:bay 19, SAS, 146 GB, OK)
      physicaldrive 1E:1:20 (port 1E:box 1:bay 20, SAS, 146 GB, OK)
      physicaldrive 1E:1:21 (port 1E:box 1:bay 21, SAS, 300 GB, OK)
      physicaldrive 1E:1:22 (port 1E:box 1:bay 22, SAS, 300 GB, OK)
      physicaldrive 1E:1:23 (port 1E:box 1:bay 23, SAS, 300 GB, OK)
      physicaldrive 1E:1:24 (port 1E:box 1:bay 24, SAS, 300 GB, OK)
      physicaldrive 1E:1:25 (port 1E:box 1:bay 25, SAS, 300 GB, OK)
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  2. If you have enough HP kit it's well worth implementing their 'System Insight Manager' (SIM), it does far more than inventory management but it does that job very well - in fact it does that for us on over a hundred thousand devices and it's free!

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