I have a couple of failed drives and I need to identify them without rebooting. I can do it within the card bios but I don't want to restart my server. The utility from LSI's site has a deb and an RPM. I guess I can unzip the RPM but was hoping for a more eligant solution.

How'd this work out for you? Any steps you found that worked?

Similar situation here. Any ideas?

+1 here: Any instructions how to install storcli?

After installing a 9500-16i I had the same question and ended up figuring out how. Since this thread seems to be the only one on the topic, I'll post a summary for anyone else looking for help. I cannot speak for flashing the firmware within unraid since I did that beforehand in a EFI environment. That was a learning experience in itself!

 

To install StorCLI on unraid:

1. Get the most up to date StorCLI version on your HBA's page on Broadcom's website, in the Management Software and Tools section.
   1. In my case here: https://www.broadcom.com/products/storage/host-bus-adapters/sas-nvme-9500-16i
2. Download & unzip
3. Get the .rpm file in the Linux folder and unpack using 7zip
4. Transfer the resulting .cpio file to your server, I used a flash drive mounted using UD
   1. my file was called : storcli-007.3205.0000.0000-1.noarch.cpio
5. Using the console, go to the folder where the .cpio file is located

   1. in my case : cd /mnt/disks/myflashdrive/

6. Unpack the .cpio file in situ

   1. cpio -idmv < storcli-007.3205.0000.0000-1.noarch.cpio

7. This created new nested folders with two storcli binaries in the last one

   1. cd /mnt/disks/myflashdrive/opt/MegaRAID/storcli

8. You then want to copy the 64bit binary file to your unraid flash drive, renaming it for ease of use

   1. mkdir -p /boot/config/plugins/storcli

   2. cp storcli64 /boot/config/plugins/storcli/storcli

9. Edit the Go file so that storcli is started at each boot by adding the two lines at step 9.2

   1. nano /boot/config/go

   2. cp /boot/config/plugins/storcli/storcli /usr/local/bin/storcli

      chmod +x /usr/local/bin/storcli

10. Reboot and test by running storcli show. This will allow you to identify your controller and then send commands like the following:

    1. storcli /c0 show

    2. storcli /c0 show temperature

    3. storcli /c0 show all

 

Hope this helps someone, it took me a few tries to get there but I'm happy to be able to access that directly in unraid now!

Edited January 11, 20251 yr by audiocycle

On 1/11/2025 at 7:00 PM, serverfan said:

After installing a 9500-16i I had the same question and ended up figuring out how. Since this thread seems to be the only one on the topic, I'll post a summary for anyone else looking for help. I cannot speak for flashing the firmware within unraid since I did that beforehand in a EFI environment. That was a learning experience in itself!

 

To install StorCLI on unraid:

1. Get the most up to date StorCLI version on your HBA's page on Broadcom's website, in the Management Software and Tools section.

   1. In my case here: https://www.broadcom.com/products/storage/host-bus-adapters/sas-nvme-9500-16i

2. Download & unzip

3. Get the .rpm file in the Linux folder and unpack using 7zip

4. Transfer the resulting .cpio file to your server, I used a flash drive mounted using UD

   1. my file was called : storcli-007.3205.0000.0000-1.noarch.cpio

5. Using the console, go to the folder where the .cpio file is located

   1. in my case : cd /mnt/disks/myflashdrive/

6. Unpack the .cpio file in situ

   1. cpio -idmv < storcli-007.3205.0000.0000-1.noarch.cpio

7. This created new nested folders with two storcli binaries in the last one

   1. cd /mnt/disks/myflashdrive/opt/MegaRAID/storcli

8. You then want to copy the 64bit binary file to your unraid flash drive, renaming it for ease of use

   1. mkdir -p /boot/config/plugins/storcli

   2. cp storcli64 /boot/config/plugins/storcli/storcli

9. Edit the Go file so that storcli is started at each boot by adding the two lines at step 9.2

   1. nano /boot/config/go

   2. cp /boot/config/plugins/storcli/storcli /usr/local/bin/storcli

      chmod +x /usr/local/bin/storcli

10. Reboot and test by running storcli show. This will allow you to identify your controller and then send commands like the following:

    1. storcli /c0 show

    2. storcli /c0 show temperature

    3. storcli /c0 show all

 

Hope this helps someone, it took me a few tries to get there but I'm happy to be able to access that directly in unraid now!

Thank you - just folllowed this and it worked beautifully. You're awesome for spending the time writing that up for us. Thank you very much indeed - personally I'd have been completely stuck.

Again, THANK YOU!

Agreed. Thank you! This worked perfectly