Compex Systems Advanced SerialRAID Adapters SA33-3285-02 User Manual
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Chapter 12. Using the SSA Command Line Interface for RAID
Configurations
You can use the ssaraid command from the command line instead of the from the
SMIT panels (see Chapter 6, “Using the RAID Array Configurator” on page 57) to
configure and manage your arrays. The Command Line Interface includes a README
file that explains the syntax for the ssaraid command. The README file is located at:
/usr/lpp/devices.ssa.IBM_raid/ssaraid.README
Using the ssaraid command from the Command Line Interface, you can do the
following:
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List all the SSA adapters that provide support for RAID arrays in a system. Those
adapters are called RAID Manager.
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List SSA objects that are connected to a particular RAID Manager:
– List all objects of a given type (for example, RAID- 5 arrays).
– List the preferred name (serial number) of an object.
– List all member objects of another object (for example, a RAID array).
– List the parent object of a member object.
– List all candidate objects that can be used to exchange an existing member of a
RAID array object.
– List all candidate objects that can be used to create new RAID array objects.
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Give information about an object, such as size and current usage:
– Give information in colon-separated format.
– Give information in a summary format.
– Give information for a specified device, its members, its parents, its exchange
candidates, or its object candidates.
– Give information for all objects of a particular type.
– Limit the list to objects that have particular attribute values.
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Create an object:
– Create a particular type of object that is built from the specified members.
– Assign values for attributes of the created object.
– Create customized device objects for the new object and, if required, use the
option that allows you to specify the device name.
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Delete an object:
– Delete the named RAID object.
– Use the option that allows you to delete the device that is associated with the
deleted RAID object.
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Change an object by specifying new values for attributes of that object.
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Perform an action on an object:
– Swap, remove, or add disk drives in a RAID array.
– Copy data from a RAID-1 or RAID-10 array onto a RAID-Copy array.
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