MegaRAID megacli install?

[elchorizo]

I would like to be able to check the status of my RAID card from Unraid. I can't figure out how to get any package installed... alien and rpm are both broken when I manage to get them on the system.

 

How can I get megacli on the system?

[elchorizo]

Bump, anyone have any advice on this?

[JonathanM]

1 hour ago, elchorizo said:

anyone have any advice on this?

Unraid doesn't work well with RAID cards, it's much better to use plain HBA IT mode if your controller supports it. Unraid is built around having direct access to the drives without the RAID intermediate layer.

[Marshalleq]

I came here because I too am looking for this.  Not because I'm disagreeing with the point above, but because MegaCli can query information on the card from the cli which is very useful.  I am currently trying to figure out why a raid cabinet is not hot swapping disks properly which has led me down a whole path with mpt2sas and mpt3sas which ended up me wanting this tool to get info.  I think it would be great to have as part of nerd tools or something.

 

e.g

MegaCli64 -LDInfo -LALL -aALL

[ChristianJensen]

Hi,

 

Old post, but just throught I would share.

 

To get MegaCLI running on my Unraid server I did the following:

 

1. Downloaded MegaCLI for linux from here:

https://docs.broadcom.com/docs-and-downloads/raid-controllers/raid-controllers-common-files/8-07-14_MegaCLI.zip

 

2. Unzipped the fil on a Windows machine

3. Found the RPM file for Linux in the archive and used 7z to unpack the RPM file. 

4. Copied all three files in the RPM to a folder on Unraid

5. Opened an SSH to the server and changed dir to where i placed the files

6 ran: chmod 777 MegaCli64

7 ran: ./MegaCli64 -h

 

That's it. Nothing really needs to be installed. I tried to change the rebuild speed and check info on disks etc. and all works as expected

 

Hope this helps

 

Happy MegaCli'ing.

 

/Christian

[energyx]

I know this is an old topic, but some will probably end up here like I did with a search.

 

I was able to use the Linux binaries for storcli from Broadcom to check full status, along with temperature using the steps above with this zip. I used the 64 bit binary under the Linux folder and chmod 777 to make it executable once copied to the /tmp folder on unraid.

 

This worked for a 9300-8i

https://docs.broadcom.com/docs/1232743501

 

./storcli64 /c0 show temperature

CLI Version = 007.2707.0000.0000 Dec 18, 2023
Operating system = Linux 6.1.74-Unraid
Controller = 0
Status = Success
Description = None

Controller Properties :
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Ctrl_Prop                       Value 
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ROC temperature(Degree Celsius) 44    
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