[PLUGIN] Disk Location

[TeeNoodle 0]

3 minutes ago, olehj said:

Ye, the SSDs can be a bit lacking when it comes to SMART information, and seems to work different with LEDs, temp works though. I have 2 identical SSDs so I need to check the serial number of the drive and hopefully have assigned the correct tray to it

Then this is a bit weird:

1:0:6:0 0000000000000000 ADATA SU655 2I4220072140 480.1GB SSD 2.5 inches

Are SSDs lacking Logical Unit Numbers for a reason?

 

[olehj 19]

2 minutes ago, TeeNoodle said:

Then this is a bit weird:

1:0:6:0 0000000000000000 ADATA SU655 2I4220072140 480.1GB SSD 2.5 inches

Are SSDs lacking Logical Unit Numbers for a reason?

 

That is actually a bit scary - typically everything will have a LUN in my mind. I do have it on my SSD drives and all other drives. For sure my script will fail if you add two of these drives as it is heavily depended on the LUN. You can check smartctl -i /dev/<path to device> if you get something else than a bunch of 0's. Look for: "LU WWN Device Id"

[TeeNoodle 0]

1 hour ago, olehj said:

That is actually a bit scary - typically everything will have a LUN in my mind. I do have it on my SSD drives and all other drives. For sure my script will fail if you add two of these drives as it is heavily depended on the LUN. You can check smartctl -i /dev/<path to device> if you get something else than a bunch of 0's. Look for: "LU WWN Device Id"

root@NoodleNet:~# smartctl -i /dev/sdh | grep LU
LU WWN Device Id: 0 000000 000000000

 

Freaky, huh??

[olehj 19]

7 hours ago, TeeNoodle said:

root@NoodleNet:~# smartctl -i /dev/sdh | grep LU
LU WWN Device Id: 0 000000 000000000

 

Freaky, huh??

Maybe it isn't that bad anyway.. it looks like this is specified by the hardware controller before the connected device. So rather a bad approach of defining hard drives at my end. I just saw some nice looking unique numbers and thought that would be a good idea, but I expect they might change if you change HW controller (like raid cards or motherboards). I better get down and changing this behavior to a MD5/SHA1 hashed number based upon family name, device model and serial number - I guess I never seen any drives (at least serious ones) without a serial number.

Thanks for the info you provide, it helps me understand even more of how things might be setup.

[TeeNoodle 0]

6 hours ago, olehj said:

Maybe it isn't that bad anyway.. it looks like this is specified by the hardware controller before the connected device. So rather a bad approach of defining hard drives at my end. I just saw some nice looking unique numbers and thought that would be a good idea, but I expect they might change if you change HW controller (like raid cards or motherboards). I better get down and changing this behavior to a MD5/SHA1 hashed number based upon family name, device model and serial number - I guess I never seen any drives (at least serious ones) without a serial number.

Thanks for the info you provide, it helps me understand even more of how things might be setup.

It's not only that serial in your plugin, i checked it out and both SMART and Unraid reports the serial as is. So yeah, might be a good idea to rely on something else for disk identification in the long run. Mind you, it's ADATA, and i don't know for other manufacturers.

 

Brother, you're most welcome, it's my pleasure to help you debug and improve on that plugin. I consider that what you did with that plugin should already be in Unraid in the first place. So, anything you need me to provide or test, I will do if possible.

 

Also, sent you monies for a beer. You deserve it.

[olehj 19]

39 minutes ago, TeeNoodle said:

It's not only that serial in your plugin, i checked it out and both SMART and Unraid reports the serial as is. So yeah, might be a good idea to rely on something else for disk identification in the long run. Mind you, it's ADATA, and i don't know for other manufacturers.

 

Brother, you're most welcome, it's my pleasure to help you debug and improve on that plugin. I consider that what you did with that plugin should already be in Unraid in the first place. So, anything you need me to provide or test, I will do if possible.

 

Also, sent you monies for a beer. You deserve it.

Thanks for the beer  I will check if I can find a new Canadian craft beer (I assume you're from there based upon the currency)!

Else I have just finished porting over from LUN to SHA256 string of model name and serial number, those should be valid for all drives and written on the device itself. So in the future it should be safe to swap controllers (motherboards etc) without loosing any information.

Anyway, I expect to release the next update at 00:00 CET just in case I come up with some more or discover some sudden bugs 😛

[sjoerd 4]

Hi Ole,

 

I reinstalled the plugin and it works. Can't fully use it yet since my rig still runs in 4 disk-mode - caseless - on the test-bench Chassis, disks and memory arrived today to buildtime tomorrow.

 

 

[olehj 19]

12 minutes ago, sjoerd said:

Hi Ole,

 

I reinstalled the plugin and it works. Can't fully use it yet since my rig still runs in 4 disk-mode - caseless - on the test-bench Chassis, disks and memory arrived today to buildtime tomorrow.

 

 

Haha ye, I won't make a caseless layout  Happy building tomorrow!

[olehj 19]

Update 2019.02.01

- Commit #31 - Improvement: Created a new SHA256 string of static device model name and serial number instead of using LUN. Should now remember devices regardless of controllers. Require a database upgrade (v2).

- Commit #29 - BUG: Javascript: Added delay between kill and start/stop to the Locate button, should be more stable now. Thanks to TeeNoodle for debugging and testing.

[TeeNoodle 0]

7 hours ago, olehj said:

Commit #29 - BUG: Javascript: Added delay between kill and start/stop to the Locate button, should be more stable now. Thanks to TeeNoodle for debugging and testing.

Just tested the new update, works flawlessly. 🤘

[unsainted 0]

I just installed this plugin and i am unable to make my settings changes stick. I hit save and screen refreshes after 15-20 seconds and nothing has changed from the default. For example i am changing to 4 columns, 4 rows, physical tray assignment direction -left to right and temp in Fahrenheit. When i hit save its still at the defaults.

 

I am running Unraid 6.7.0-rc2

 

Any ideas what may be going on?

[olehj 19]

51 minutes ago, unsainted said:

I just installed this plugin and i am unable to make my settings changes stick. I hit save and screen refreshes after 15-20 seconds and nothing has changed from the default. For example i am changing to 4 columns, 4 rows, physical tray assignment direction -left to right and temp in Fahrenheit. When i hit save its still at the defaults.

 

I am running Unraid 6.7.0-rc2

 

Any ideas what may be going on?

You are absolutely right, and I know why! It happens only for newly created databases. To fix it before next update, do following in the terminal:
 

# Download the new development file:
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/olehj/disklocation/devel/disklocation/pages/system.php
# And overwrite file with existing:
mv system.php /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/disklocation/pages/system.php

Refresh the plugin/browser and save! ..or wait for the next update release.

[unsainted 0]

43 minutes ago, olehj said:

You are absolutely right, and I know why! It happens only for newly created databases. To fix it before next update, do following in the terminal:
 

# Download the new development file:
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/olehj/disklocation/devel/disklocation/pages/system.php
# And overwrite file with existing:
mv system.php /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/disklocation/pages/system.php

Refresh the plugin/browser and save! ..or wait for the next update release.

worked perfectly! Thank you!

[ctrlaltd1337 3]

This was working fine until recently, and now no information populates on the Devices tab. All of the info is still correct in the Information and Configuration tabs, but just orange and grey squares on the Devices tab.

[olehj 19]

47 minutes ago, ctrlaltd1337 said:

This was working fine until recently, and now no information populates on the Devices tab. All of the info is still correct in the Information and Configuration tabs, but just orange and grey squares on the Devices tab.

If you updated recently I can imagine why. Just hang on there, a new release is expected in some few hours. Try to update it then, next stable release is 2019.02.02, if you gor 2019.02.01[a-l] (a letter behind the date, then you just got bad luck)

[olehj 19]

59 minutes ago, ctrlaltd1337 said:

This was working fine until recently, and now no information populates on the Devices tab. All of the info is still correct in the Information and Configuration tabs, but just orange and grey squares on the Devices tab.

Or try to update now, I pushed .02 earlier

[olehj 19]

Update 2019.02.02

- Commit #33 - BUG: Settings not saved for fresh installs, fixed database query.

- Changed installer to use git clone instead of a prebuilt archive. Current archive will be made for installation after reboots.

[olehj 19]

New info posted on the frontpage (1st and 2nd post)

[TeeNoodle 0]

@olehj new update seems to have broken the plugin completely for me. Green puzzle icon instead of regular plugin icon, and clicking on it gives a blank page

[x64 0]

1 hour ago, TeeNoodle said:

@olehj new update seems to have broken the plugin completely for me. Green puzzle icon instead of regular plugin icon, and clicking on it gives a blank page

Same here.

[olehj 19]

Hmm, can you try to remove the plugin manually via Plugins -> Installed plugins and then install it again with the link below to check if that works:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/olehj/disklocation/master/disklocation-master.plg

It works here, so I'm not sure what might have gone wrong. The database should stay intact while doing this. Must eventually wait for debugging until tomorrow when i sober up 😛 But try remove and reinstall, it does work here after removing cached files even etc.

Edited February 2, 2019 by olehj

[olehj 19]

Oh! I see what's the problem here. Unraid does not have git installed by default, I see I have it manually installed via "NerdPack" - so for sure it should work if you install it from the NerdPack addon. That's probably a better approach than installing it via my plugin. I would prefer to have a direct access to git as it makes the job way more easy and faster to release.

Edited February 2, 2019 by olehj

[olehj 19]

I updated the addon to install GIT by itself if it's missing, else it will upgrade it to the Slackware 14.2 package. Try the new package with normal update: 2019.02.02b

[TeeNoodle 0]

18 minutes ago, olehj said:

Try the new package with normal update: 2019.02.02b

All good, brother! Working fine for me.

 

Cheers!

[olehj 19]

1 minute ago, TeeNoodle said:

All good, brother! Working fine for me.

 

Cheers!

Good to hear! Easy to forget some mandatory stuff when things are installed by other plugins