Storcli

The storcli binary can usually be found under /opt/lsi or /opt/MegaRAID and can be obtained from the Broadcom website.

Once installed you can…

Genearal Commands

Show all settings/status

/storcli /c0 show all

Show rebuild status

storcli /c0 /eall /sall show rebuild

Create a new RAID

storcli64 /c0 add vd type=RAID6 drives=8:12-22
storcli64 /c0/v1 start init

Set a drive to be identified as good

sudo /opt/MegaRAID/storcli/storcli64 /c0/e21/s5 set good force

Set a drive to be identified as bad

sudo /opt/MegaRAID/storcli/storcli64 /c0/e21/s5 set bad force

Drive Identification Commands

Locate a drive

sudo /opt/MegaRAID/storcli/storcli64 /c0/e8/s17 start locate

Stop locating a drive

sudo /opt/MegaRAID/storcli/storcli64 /c0/e8/s17 start locate

Alarm Commands

Show alarm status

storcli /cx show alarm

Set the status of an alarm

storcli /cx set alarm=<on|off|silence>

Hot Spare Commands

Create a hot spare

sudo /opt/MegaRAID/storcli/storcli64 /c0/e21/s5 add hotsparedrive

Delete a hot hot hotsparedrive

sudo /opt/MegaRAID/storcli/storcli64 /c0/e21/s23 delete hotsparedrive
CLI Version = 007.1017.0000.0000 May 10, 2019
Operating system = Linux 3.10.0-957.21.3.el7.x86_64
Controller = 0
Status = Success
Description = Delete Hot Spare Succeeded.

Foreign Configuration Commands

Show foreign configurations

sudo /opt/MegaRAID/storcli/storcli64 /c0/fall show

Delete foreign configurations

sudo /opt/MegaRAID/storcli/storcli64 /c0/fall delete
CLI Version = 007.1017.0000.0000 May 10, 2019
Operating system = Linux 3.10.0-957.21.3.el7.x86_64
Controller = 0
Status = Success
Description = Successfully deleted foreign configuration

Monitoring with cron

Create a cron job for email alerts of failures using storcli.

#!/bin/bash
STATUS=`/opt/MegaRAID/storcli/storcli64 -AdpAllInfo -aALL -NoLog|egrep '^  (Degraded|Failed)'|grep -v ' 0'`;

if [ "x$STATUS" != "x" ]; then
  echo -e "Subject: RAID WARNING @ `hostname`\n\n$STATUS"|mail -s 'RAID Warning' email@fqdn
fi

References and further reading

https://www.broadcom.com/support/download-search?pg=Storage+Adapters,+Controllers,+and+ICs&pf=RAID+Controller+Cards&pn=&pa=&po=&dk=