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Dell Storage PowerTools Server Hardware Manager Version 3.2 Administrator’s Guide

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Identifying drives

When identifying drives, there are optional parameters that you can include to narrow the scope of the drives from which to obtain information. You can identify drives from the adapter (all down-chain enclosures attached to a specified HBA), all the drives in a specific enclosure, or all the drives in a specified drawer in a specified enclosure. To get information about all the drives visible to an adapter, run the following commands:

To retrieve information about all of the drives on the server: 
shmcli list drives

To retrieve information about all of the drives visible to an adapter: 

shmcli list drives -a=<(SASAddress | AdapterIndex)>
Figure 1. Command output
This image shows the identified drives visible to an adapter.

To retrieve information about all of the drives in a specific enclosure: 

shmcli list drives -a=<(SASAddress | AdapterIndex)> -enc=<(WWN | EnclIndex)>
Figure 2. Command output
This image shows identified drives in a specific enclosure.

To retrieve information about all of the drives in a drawer within an enclosure: 

shmcli list drives -a=<(SASAddress | AdapterIndex)> -enc=<(WWN | EnclIndex)> -w=<DrawerIndex>
Figure 3. Command output
This image shows identified drives in a drawer within an enclosure.
Record the Enclosure Slot Index and the WWN provided by the list drives command. These values are required to perform actions on a specific drive such as updating the firmware or making the LED of a drive blink for identification purposes.

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