Dell H800 Perc Smart Attributes Multiple Drives

[Kevin]

I am running Centos 6.4 with Smartmontools v5.42. I am trying to run Smartctl -a -d megaraid,0 /dev/sda to pull smart information on multiple disks behind a Perc controller. I know that I am specifying megaraid,0 to show disk 0. How do I get smartmontools to show smart stats of multiple drives at once? is this possible? I want to get smart attributes for up to as many drives as possible at once behind my controller.(15-90drives daisy chained in SANs) I'm testing this on a Perc 6 but I want to deploy this behind H800 Perc.

[Christian Franke]

It is not possible to print info of more than one device with one smartctl run. There are no plans to implement this.

For devices which appear in smartctl --scan output, this could be done with a simple wrapper script. This should work for the -d megaraid,N device type since smartmontools 6.1.

[Kevin]

Replying to chrfranke:

It is not possible to print info of more than one device with one smartctl run. There are no plans to implement this.

For devices which appear in smartctl --scan output, this could be done with a simple wrapper script. This should work for the -d megaraid,N device type since smartmontools 6.1.

Thanks chrfranke!
When I run:

smartctl --scan -a -d megaraid,0 /dev/sda

I get:

DeviceScan with pattern not yet implemented

I am currently testing this on a perc 6 and just trying to read multiple drives in my server at once. For deployment it will be an H800 behind network attached storage. Any other ideas? How do I implement the devicescan pattern?

Thanks for the help!

[Christian Franke]

The info was misleading, sorry. The smartctl --scan does not work in conjunction with -d megaraid,N or a device name.

The following script may work for your use case:

#!/bin/sh

options="-H -A"

/usr/sbin/smartctl --scan \
| while read dev opt type comment; do
   case "$dev $opt $type" in
     /dev/sda\ -d\ megaraid,*)
       echo "smartctl $opt $type $options $dev"
       /usr/sbin/smartctl $opt $type $options $dev
       echo "======================================="
       ;;
    esac
  done

(Requires smartctl >= 6.1)

[Alex Samorukov]

smartctl 6.2 supports --scan-open for the megaraid controller.

[Kevin]

I'm using Smartctl v6.2 There seems to be a problem with that script at the

/usr/sbin/smartctl --scan \

Im new to linux and just trying to set up a testing station for my enterprise. I appreciate your help with the script. I cant get it to work as of now. Any other thoughts?

[Alex Samorukov]

Again, please do
smartctl --scan-open
and provide here result.

[Kevin]

when i run:

smartctl --scan-open  

I get: #

# /dev/sda -d scsi # /dev/sdb, SCSI device open failed: DELL or megaraid controller, please try adding '-d megaraid,N'
# /dev/sdb -d scsi # /dev/sdb, SCSI device open failed: DELL or megaraid controller, please try adding '-d megaraid,N'

[Alex Samorukov]

Is it result from smartmontools 6.3?

[Alex Samorukov]

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