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June 10th, 2022 07:00

Programmatically determine enclosure part where slot located (front/mid/back)

Hello,

Is there any way to programmatically determine enclosure part where drive slot located? For example, i have R740xd system with 18 drives slots. Configuration is 12 front slots (numbers 0-11), 4 mid (16-19) and 4 rear (12-15). I can see those information in documentation. But is there any way to find, for example, slot 17 located and middle backplane card? Any tools like perccli, racadm etc are welcomed :-).

Thanks.

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June 14th, 2022 02:00

Hello,

no it is not possible to know if slot is in front mid or rear. The only information is the number of the slot, sorry.

Thanks
Marco

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June 10th, 2022 12:00

Hello vills,

 

We do have a few options for that:

 

*OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA is a GUI . It also gives you the omreport, omconfig tools)

*omreport and omconfig (with OMSA command line)

*racadm

*perccli

 

Dell EMC OpenManage Server Administrator Managed Node for Windows, v10.2.0.0

https://dell.to/3HeZKqZ

 

Dell EMC OpenManage Command Line Interface Guide Version 10.0.1

Chapter 7

https://dell.to/3MGszxG

 

Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 9 RACADM CLI Guide 

racadm hwinventory

https://dell.to/3xFxNFO

 

How to use the PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) Command Line Interface (CLI) utility to manage your RAID controller

https://dell.to/3NIuCCU

 

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June 14th, 2022 01:00

Oh. I expect not the list of software from you, but an example (commands) of how to get slot position in chassis (front, mid, or rear backplane). Can you please do so?

From "racadm hwinventory" command i can only see some information about backplane (enclosure), but no more:

[InstanceID: Enclosure.Internal.0-1:RAID.Integrated.1-1]
Device Type = Enclosure
Connector = 0
DeviceDescription = Backplane 1 on Connector 0 of Integrated RAID Controller 1
EMMCount = 0
FQDD = Enclosure.Internal.0-1:RAID.Integrated.1-1
FanCount = 0
InstanceID = Enclosure.Internal.0-1:RAID.Integrated.1-1
LastSystemInventoryTime = 2022-06-09T18:12:17
LastUpdateTime = 2022-06-09T19:12:16
PSUCount = 0
PrimaryStatus = OK
ProductName = BP14G+EXP 0:1
RollupStatus = OK
SlotCount = 18
State = Ready
TempProbeCount = 0
Version = 2.52
WiredOrder = 1

 And i also can get some information about connected drives:

[InstanceID: Disk.Bay.15:Enclosure.Internal.0-1:RAID.Integrated.1-1]
[ .. ]
DeviceDescription = Disk 15 in Backplane 1 of Integrated RAID Controller 1
Slot = 15
[ .. ]

But is there a way to determine slot 15 located in rear backplane without reading manuals?

P.S. I also can't find this information with "perccli" utility.

Thank you. 

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June 14th, 2022 13:00

Hello vills,

 

You can use the drive slot number to determine where it is located.

 

To get the list of physical disks, run the following command:

racadm storage get pdisks

 

To get the properties of a physical disk, run the following command:

racadm storage get pdisks:

 

 

18 drives system

up to 12 3.5 inch (SAS, SATA or Nearline SAS) front accessible drives in slots 0 to 11,

up to two 3.5 inch (SAS, SATA or Nearline SAS) rear accessible drives in slots 12 to 13

up to four 3.5 inch (SAS, SATA or Nearline SAS) mid drives in slots 14 to 17,

 

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June 15th, 2022 04:00

Noted. Thank you all!

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June 15th, 2022 04:00

Hello, I`m Mr. Murphy.

Because of there is also a 20 "bay" R740xd i will break your script for sure

Ok, stop joking.
I cant help you but the slot ordering based on the max. number of disk in on page #11 from https://dl.dell.com/content/manual31837821-dell-emc-poweredge-r740xd-technical-specifications.pdf?language=en-us&ps=true

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Joerg

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