ProCKSI

= DELL RAID Controller =

Command Line Interface (CLI) for Dell's RAID Controller
The manual can be found at [http://support.euro.dell.com/support/edocs/storage/CS6CH/en/ug/dell_ceg.htm]] Comments by William Armitage
On procksi0 i have dropped the raid tools into /usr/local/afa

{{{
root@master01:/usr/local/afa# ls l /usr/local/afa
total 3032
-rwxr--r- 1 wja procksi 1893976 Nov 29 11:51 afacli
rw-r--r- 1 root root 0 Nov 29 11:58 cfg.log
rw-r--r- 1 wja procksi 572 Nov 29 11:51 getcfg.afa
rw-r--r- 1 root root 165 Dec 19 12:34 i2
rw-r--r- 1 root root 2050 Dec 19 12:36 i2.log
rw-r--r- 1 root root 159 Dec 11 18:11 i2.orig
rw-r--r- 1 root root 325 Dec 19 12:34 i3
rw-r--r- 1 root root 1153256 Dec 19 12:38 i3.log
rw-r--r- 1 root root 98 Nov 29 14:47 input
rwxr--r- 1 wja procksi 595 Nov 29 11:51 MAKEDEV.afa
rw-r--r- 1 root root 1152 Nov 30 12:39 output
rw-r--r- 1 root root 1152 Nov 29 14:48 output.0
rw-r--r- 1 root root 1152 Nov 29 15:23 output.1
rw-r--r- 1 root root 1152 Nov 29 18:04 output.2
}}}

afacli is from http://linux.dell.com/storage.shtml under the section AACRAID > Management Utility > afa-apps-snmp.2807420-A04.tar.gz; untar and pull apart afaapps-4.1-0.i386.rpm.

[http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&releaseid=R85529&formatcnt=1&fileid=112003]

If you don't have /dev/afa0 create it by {{{
cd /dev
/usr/local/afa/MAKEDEV.afa afa0
}}}
It disappeared after the reboot and needed recreating.

afacli is described as a bad port of a dos program.
while command line it does wierd things to the terminal so feed it scripts.
it does echo to the output as well as any logging set but it uses escape
codes that write to the alternate screen in colour xterm and then immediatly
switches back at end.

The "input" script comes from
[http://linux.dell.com/files/aacraid/nagios/check_raid_pl.txt]br</a> {{{output log "output"}}}

the more detailed script "i2" comes from
[http://www.techno-obscura.com/~delgado/notes/sles9-NagiosAfacli.html]br</a> {{{output i2.out}}}

"i3" dumps the controller logs. Its based on
[http://threebit.net/mail-archive/centos/msg02033.html]br</a> {{{output i3.out}}}