Checking Hard Disk Health on HP P410 RAID Card

Question

How can I regularly check health of HDDs on a HP DL180 with P410 RAID Card on a live system?

hpacucli is installed, however, could not see any options for this feature.

Using CentOS, 64-bit.

Thanks in advance.

Solution

To check the status of the drives manually, look at the front of the server and examine the disk LEDs. The disks LEDs go amber or red when there's a failure.

To check via the Smart Array RAID controller's hpacucli utility, you can run:

hpacucli ctrl all show config

or

hpacucli ctrl all show config detail

Either can be incorporated into a script as the output looks like:

# 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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To have continuous monitoring of the system health, you'll want to install the HP Management Agents on the system. This can either be installed whole using the HP Service Pack for ProLiant bootable DVD or piecemeal using the links below.

I'm assuming this is an HP ProLiant DL180 G6 running CentOS 5.

All drivers and agents for this system are located here.

What you'll need at a minimum are:

• HP SNMP agents. These monitor the server health and can be configured to send SNMP traps and/or email when there's an event.

• HP System CLI Utilities. These provide CLI utilities for system health reporting, the server's UID light and the ability to view the IML system event log.

• optional - HP System Management Homepage. This is a web-based system console that shows overall server health.

Comments

[John]

Thanks, the information has been useful and I am using it. Will the results give valid information on the health of SSD drives?

[ewwhite]

@John Yes, if the drive has failed or not.