Administration and Diagnostics Utilities - Oracle Exadata Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach - page 173

7-11. Collecting RAID Storage Information Using the MegaCLI
utility
Problem
You wish to generate diagnostics or configuration information about your MegaRAID-controlled disk devices on an
Exadata Storage Server or Compute Server.

Solution
Log in to an Exadata Compute or Storage Server as root ; in the following example, we're connecting a storage server.
Check the version of the MegaCli64 utility:

[root@cm01cel01 ~]# ls /opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli64
/opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli64
[root@cm01cel01 ~]# /opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli64 -v
MegaCLI SAS RAID Management Tool Ver 8.00.23 May 17, 2010
(c)Copyright 2010, LSI Corporation, All Rights Reserved.
Exit Code: 0x00
[root@cm01cel01 ~]#

MegaCLI can provide a wealth of information about your storage devices. In Table 7-3 , we provide the commands
required to generate some of the more common inquiry tasks you may perform with MegaCLI.

Table 7-3. Common MegaCLI commands

Command Description

# /opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli64 -AdpAllInfo -aALL Lists detailed disk adapter information for

all adapters

# /opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli64 -PDList -aALL Lists detailed physical disk information for

all disks

# /opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli64 -AdpEventLog -GetEvents -f
[output file] -aALL

Displays disk adapter events

/opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli64 -fwtermlog -dsply -aALL Displays firmware information for your

system's storage devices

# /opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli64 -cfgdsply -aALL

Lists disk configuration information for all
of your devices

# /opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli64 -adpbbucmd -aALL Displays information about the status of

your battery-backed disk cache (BBU)

# /opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli64 -LdPdInfo -aALL Provides detailed information about your

virtual disks

# /opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli64 -PDList -aALL Lists physical disk and adapter information

# /opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli64 -LDInfo -LALL -aALL Displays virtual drive information

# /opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli64 -ShowSummary -aALL Displays summary information for your

LSI MegaRAID devices