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1.4 RACADM Commands for Configuring RAID

You can create, modify, and delete a security key by running the commands. The security key is used by

the controller to lock and unlock access to encryption-capable physical disk drives. There is one security

key per controller; user can manage the security key under Local Key Management (LKM).

The RACDM command syntaxes are:

$ racadm raid createsecuritykey:RAID.Integrated.1-1 -key <Key id> -passwd

$ racadm raid modifysecuritykey:RAID.Integrated.1-1 -key <Key id> -oldpasswd

<old passphrase> -newpasswd <new passphrase>

$ racadm raid deletesecuritykey:RAID.Integrated.1-1

Note: After a security key is created, you can’t create another key for that controller without deleting the

current key, but modify security key can be used to modify it with a new value.

The configurations of a controller can be reset to factory configurations using the resetconfig

command, the command syntax is:

$ racadm raid resetconfig:<CTRL FQDD>

The configuration set can be cleared from pending database before it is applied using below command:

$ racadm raid clearconfig:<CTRL FQDD>

The RAID configuration already configured for a physical disk drive in any of the similar server can be

imported to the controller of another server of same type by running the RACADM command:

$ racadm raid importconfig:<CTRL FQDD>

$ racadm raid importconfig:<Controller FQDD>