Users Guide

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Table 15-17. omconfig Physical Disk Commands
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omconfig Blink Physical Disk
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Does my controller support this feature? See "Supported Features."
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You can blink the light (light emitting diode or LED display) on one or more physical disks attached to a controller. Use the following omconfig command syntax
to blink one or more physical disks.
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Complete Syntax
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omconfig storage pdisk action=blink controller=id pdisk=<PDISKID>
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where id is the controller ID. The <PDISK> variable specifies the physical disk. See "pdisk=<PDISKID> Parameter" for more information.
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To obtain these values, you would enter omreport storage controller to display the controller IDs and then enter omreport storage pdisk controller=ID to
display the IDs for the physical disks attached to the controller.
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Example Syntax
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In this example, you want to blink physical disk 2 on connector 0 of controller 1. On a SAS controller, the physical disk resides in enclosure 2.
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Example for SCSI, SATA, and ATA Controllers:
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To blink the physical disk described in this example, you would enter:
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omconfig storage pdisk action=blink controller=1 pdisk=0:2
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See "pdisk=<PDISKID> Parameter on SCSI, SATA, and ATA Controllers" and "Multiple Targets" for more information on physical disk specification. See "RAID
Controller Technology: SCSI, SATA, ATA, and SAS" to identify which technology a controller uses.
Required Command Levels
(1, 2, 3)
Optional name=value Pairs
Documentation Section
omconfig storage pdisk
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action=blink controller=id pdisk=<PDISKID>
"omconfig Blink Physical Disk"
action=unblink controller=id pdisk=<PDISKID>
"omconfig Unblink Physical Disk"
action=remove controller=id pdisk=<PDISKID>
"omconfig Prepare to Remove Physical Disk"
action=initialize controller=id pdisk=<PDISKID>
"omconfig Initialize Physical Disk"
action=offline controller=id pdisk=<PDISKID>
"omconfig Offline Physical Disk"
action=online controller=id pdisk=<PDISKID>
"omconfig Online Physical Disk"
action=assignglobalhotspare controller=id pdisk=<PDISKID>
assign=<yes|no>
"omconfig Assign Global Hot Spare" and "omconfig
Unassign Global Hot Spare"
action=rebuild controller=id pdisk=<PDISKID>
"omconfig Rebuild Physical Disk"
action=cancelrebuild controller=id pdisk=<PDISKID>
"omconfig Cancel Rebuild Physical Disk"
action=removedeadsegments controller=id pdisk=<PDISKID>
"omconfig Remove Dead Segments"
action=clear controller=id pdisk=<PDISKID>
"omconfig Clear Physical Disk"
action=cancelclear controller=id pdisk=<PDISKID>
"omconfig Cancel Clear Physical Disk"
action=cancelreplacemember controller=id pdisk=<PDISKID>
"omconfig Cancel Replace Member"