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Checking Location of Physical Device
The locate function can be used when you want to know the slot to which a specific Physical Device appearing in
the RAID Viewer is inserted in the computer or enclosure. In actual, locate turns on the DISK lamp on the
computer or enclosure in which the specified Physical Device is installed. (The DISK lamp blinks depending on
the types of the computer or enclosures.) Searching for the Physical Device with the DISK lamp being ON allows
the Physical Device for which "check location" is executed on the RAID Viewer and raidcmd to be identified.
The DISK lamp automatically is turned off in 3 minutes. Also, the RAID Controller may have the Turn off function
according to the kind of RAID Controller.
RAID Viewer and raidcmd do not support the indication of the status (ON or OFF) of DISK
lamp. Therefore, you can't recognize the location of the Physical Device when you turn ON the
lamp of two or more Physical Devices at same time. You should turn ON the lamp of Physical
Device one by one. It is convenient when you put down the number of the Physical Device
which turned on a DISK lamp because you can confirm the number of the Physical Device
when turn off the DISK lamp.
Procedure of Checking Location of Physical Device
Locate is executed for a Physical Device. The locate procedure is described below.
RAID Viewer
Use [Locate(Lamp)] in [Control] menu.
Step 1
Start the RAID Viewer. Click a Physical Device to
be located on the tree view, select [Locate (Lamp)] on the
pull-down menu of menu item [Control], and click [ON]. Then
the DISK lamp on the Physical Device goes on (or blinks
depending on the type of the computer). The DISK lamp
automatically is turned off in 3 minutes.
Step 2 In case of the RAID Controller with Turn off function, [OFF] of [Locate(Lamp)] in the [Control] menu becomes
enable. To turn off the DISK lamp, click a Physical Device to be located on the Tree View, select [Locate (Lamp)] on the
pull-down menu of menu item [Control] and click [OFF].
raidcmd
Use "slotlamp" command.
Step 1 To turn on the DISK lamp for locate,
execute "
slotlamp" command with the -sw option set
to "on" using the following parameters.
-c : Number of the RAID Controller containing the Physical
Device for which its location is checked
-p : Number of the Physical Device for which its location is checked
-sw : Specify "on" to turn on the DISK lamp
Step 2 To turn off the lighting DISK lamp, execute "slotlamp" command with the -sw option set to "off".
If the RAID Controller does not support the "turning off the Disk lamp" function, the message indicating that it does not
support the function is displayed and raidcmd is finished.
-c : Number of the RAID Controller containing the Physical Device for which its location is checked
-p : Number of the Physical Device for which its location is checked
-sw : Specify "off" to turn off the DISK lamp
> raidcmd slotlamp -c=1 -p=3 -sw=on
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> raidcmd slotlamp -c=1 -p=3 -sw=off
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