This post show installation of MegaCli (ServeRAID MR 10 k SAS/SATA Controller client) and two basic commands

1. Installation

Get ServeRAID CD and extract the file MegaCli-X.XX.XX-Y.i386.rpm.

Install using the rpm command

` # rpm -ivh rpms/MegaCli-3.00.07-1.i386.rpm Preparing...               

[100%] 1:MegaCli               

##################################### [100%]`

Listing the installed files with rpm command

# rpm -ql MegaCli /opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli /opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli64

2. Basic commands
a. Listing All informations

` # /opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli-AdpAllInfo -aALL Adapter #0

Versions ================ Product Name    : IBM ServeRAID-MR10k SAS/SATA

Controller Serial No       : KNNNNNNNNN FW Package Build: 8.0.1-0036

Mfg. Data ================ Mfg. Date       : 07/06/04 Rework Date

00/00/00 Revision No     : Battery FRU     : N/A Image Versions In

Flash: ================ FW Version         : 1.12.152-0440 BIOS

Version       : NT16 WebBIOS Version    : 1.1-33e-e_11-Rel Ctrl-R

Version     : 1.01-010B Preboot CLI Version: 01.00-011:#%00001 Boot

Block Version : 1.00.00.01-0011 Pending Images In Flash ================

None PCI Info ================ Vendor Id       : 1000 Device Id

0060 SubVendorId     : 1014 SubDeviceId     : 0363 Host Interface  :

PCIE Number of Frontend Port: 0 Device Interface  : PCIE Number of

Backend Port: 8 Port  :

Address 0        5000c5000c627be9 1        5000c5000ca68091 2        5000c5000c60f9a1 3        5000c5000123bce1 4        0000000000000000 5        0000000000000000 6        0000000000000000 7        0000000000000000

HW Configuration ================ SAS Address     : 5005076b08028540

BBU             : Present Alarm           : Present NVRAM           :

Present Serial Debugger : Present Memory          : Present

Flash           : Present Memory Size     : 256MB

TPM             : Absent Settings ================ Current

Time                     : 14:56:28 1/9, 2009 Predictive Fail Poll

Interval    : 300sec Interrupt Throttle Active Count  : 16 Interrupt

Throttle Completion    : 50us Rebuild Rate                     : 30% PR

Rate                          : 30% Resynch Rate

30% Check Consistency Rate           : 30% Reconstruction

Rate              : 30% Cache Flush Interval             : 4s

Max Drives to Spinup at One Time : 2 Delay Among Spinup Groups

12s Physical Drive Coercion Mode     : 1GB Cluster

Mode                     : Disabled

Alarm                            : Enabled Auto

Rebuild                     : Enabled Battery Warning

Enabled Ecc Bucket Size                  : 15 Ecc Bucket Leak

Rate             : 1440 Minutes Restore HotSpare on Insertion    :

Disabled Expose Enclosure Devices         : Enabled Maintain PD Fail

History         : Enabled Host Request Reordering          : Enabled

Auto Detect BackPlane Enabled    : SGPIO/i2c SEP Load Balance

Mode                : Auto Use FDE Only                     : No

Security Key Assigned            : No Security Key Failed              :

No Security Key Not Backedup        : No Any Offline VD Cache

Preserved   : No Capabilities ================ RAID Level

Supported             : RAID0, RAID1, RAID5, RAID6, RAID10, RAID50,

RAID60 Supported Drives                 : SAS, SATA Allowed Mixing: Mix

In Enclosure Allowed Status ================ ECC Bucket

Count                 : 0 Limitations ================ Max

Arms Per VD         : 32 Max Spans Per VD        : 8 Max

Arrays              : 128 Max Number of VDs       : 64 Max

Parallel Commands   : 1008 Max SGE Count           : 80 Max Data

Transfer Size  : 8192 sectors Max Strips PerIO        : 42 Min Stripe

Size         : 8kB Max Stripe Size         : 1024kB Device Present

================ Virtual Drives    : 1 Degraded        : 0

Offline         : 0 Physical Devices  : 5 Disks           : 4

Critical Disks  : 0 Failed Disks    : 0 Supported Adapter Operations

================ Rebuild Rate                    : Yes CC

Rate                         : Yes BGI

Rate                        : Yes Reconstruct

Rate                : Yes Patrol Read Rate                : Yes

Alarm Control                   : Yes Cluster Support                 :

No BBU                             : Yes Spanning

Yes Dedicated Hot Spare             : Yes Revertible Hot

Spares           : No Foreign Config Import           : Yes Self

Diagnostic                 : Yes Allow Mixed Redundancy on Array : No

Global Hot Spares               : Yes Deny SCSI Passthrough           :

No Deny SMP Passthrough            : No Deny STP Passthrough

No Support Security                : No Supported VD Operations

================ Read Policy          : Yes Write Policy         : Yes

IO Policy            : Yes Access Policy        : Yes Disk Cache

Policy    : Yes Reconstruction       : Yes Deny Locate          : No

Deny CC              : No Allow Ctrl Encryption: No Supported PD

Operations ================ Force Online                            :

Yes Force Offline                           : Yes Force

Rebuild                           : Yes Deny Force

Failed                       : No Deny Force

Good/Bad                     : No Deny Missing

Replace                    : No Deny

Clear                              : No Deny

Locate                             : No Disable

Copyback                        : No Enable Copyback on

SMART                : No Enable Copyback to SSD on SMART error   : No

Error Counters ================ Memory Correctable Errors   : 0 Memory

Uncorrectable Errors : 0 Cluster Information ================ Cluster

Permitted     : No Cluster Active        : No Default Settings

================ Phy Polarity                     : 0 Phy

PolaritySplit                : 0 Background Rate                  : 30

Stripe Size                      : 128kB Flush

Time                       : 4 seconds Write

Policy                     : WB Read Policy                      : None

Cache When BBU Bad               : Disabled Cached

IO                        : No SMART

Mode                       : Mode 6 Alarm

Disable                    : Yes Coercion

Mode                    : 1GB ZCR

Config                       : Unknown Dirty LED Shows

Drive Activity   : No BIOS Continue on Error           : No Spin Down

Mode                   : None Allowed Device Type              :

SAS/SATA Mix Allow Mix In Enclosure           : Yes Allow HDD SAS/SATA

Mix In VD     : No Allow SSD SAS/SATA Mix In VD     : No Allow HDD/SAS

Mix In VD          : No Allow SATA In Cluster            : No Max

Chained Enclosures           : 16 Disable Ctrl-R                   : Yes

Enable Web BIOS                  : Yes Direct PD Mapping

No BIOS Enumerate VDs               : Yes Restore Hot Spare on Insertion   : No Expose Enclosure Devices         : Yes Maintain PD Fail History         : Yes Disable Puncturing               : Yes Zero Based Enclosure Enumeration : No PreBoot CLI Enabled              : Yes LED Show Drive Activity          : No Cluster Disable                  : Yes SAS Disable                      : No Auto Detect BackPlane Enable     : SGPIO/i2c SEP Use FDE Only                     : No Delay during POST                : 0 Exit Code: 0x00`

b. Show rebuild details from disks

# /opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli -PDRbld -ShowProg -PhysDrv [0:0] -aALL Device(Encl-0 Slot-0) is not in rebuild process Exit Code: 0x00

# /opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli -PDRbld -ShowProg -PhysDrv [0:1] -aALL Device(Encl-0 Slot-1) is not in rebuild process Exit Code: 0x00

# /opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli -PDRbld -ShowProg -PhysDrv [0:2] -aALL Device(Encl-0 Slot-2) is not in rebuild process Exit Code: 0x00

# /opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli -PDRbld -ShowProg -PhysDrv [0:3] -aALL Device(Encl-0 Slot-3) is not in rebuild process Exit Code: 0x00