hpacucli is a utility provided by Hewlett Packard (HP) to interact with their Smart Array controllers. The commands below were used on a RPM based distribution, but should work across all Linux flavours
You can run them by either entering interactive mode (i.e. just run hpacucli and then enter the commands), or directly from the shell (by prefixing them with hpacucli
Controller commands
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Display:
ctrl all show config
ctrl all show config detail
Status:
ctrl all show status
Cache:
ctrl slot=0 modify dwc=disable
ctrl slot=0 modify dwc=enable
Device Rescan:
rescan
Physical Drives
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Display:
ctrl slot=0 pd all show
ctrl slot=0 pd 1:2 show detail
Status:
ctrl slot=0 pd all show status
ctrl slot=0 pd 1:2 show status
Erase:
ctrl slot=0 pd 1:2 modify erase
Enable LED:
ctrl slot=0 pd 1:2 modify led=on
ctrl slot=0 pd 1:2 modify led=off
Logical Drives
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Display:
ctrl slot=0 ld all show
ctrl slot=0 ld 2 show
ctrl slot=0 ld all show detail
ctrl slot=0 ld 2 show detail
Status:
ctrl slot=0 ld all show status
ctrl slot=0 ld 3 show status
Enable LEDs:
ctrl slot=0 ld 3 modify led=on
ctrl slot=0 ld 3 modify led=off
Re-enable failed locial drive:
ctrl slot=0 ld 3 modify reenable forced
Create a LD:
# one disk
ctrl slot=0 create type=ld drives=1:10 raid=0
# mirrored
ctrl slot=0 create type=ld drives=1:10,1:11 size=300 raid=1
# raid 5
ctrl slot=0 create type=ld drives=1:10,1:11,1:12,1:13,1:14 raid=5
Remove a LD:
ctrl slot=0 ld 3 delete
Expand/Add a drive:
ctrl slot=0 ld 3 add drives=2:5
Extend/Increase size:
ctrl slot=0 ld 3 modify size=1000 forced
Add Spares:
ctrl slot=0 array all add spares=1:3,1:4
# List controllers
hpacucli ctrl all show status
# List the state of all physical disks
hpacucli ctrl slot=0 pd all show
# Make the LED on one drive blink so the technician can find it
while true; do hpacucli ctrl slot=0 pd 1:2 modify led=on; sleep 1; hpacucli ctrl slot=0 pd 1:2 modify led=off; done