megaraid_lsmplugin(1)

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version 1.10.3 · 3 versions
, in fedora 43, fedora 44

✨ megaraid_lsmplugin — the libStorageMgmt MegaRAID plugin, bestie edition 💅

ok so real talk, this is megaraid_lsmplugin(1) from the libStorageMgmt squad, and she's here to hold your hand through LSI MegaRAID management. no cap. 🫶

🌈 NAME 🌈

megaraid_lsmplugin — the libStorageMgmt MegaRAID plugin, literally the bridge between you and your RAID controller 💖

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

ngl there's no fancy synopsis line here, the whole vibe is: you point your URI at megaraid:// and the libStorageMgmt daemon handles the rest ✨

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

okay so here's the tea ☕ — the libStorageMgmt megaraid plugin lets you manage LSI MegaRAID through the vendor tool storcli[1], or a Dell PERC through perccli[2]. two tools, one plugin, main character energy only 🌟

The megaraid_lsmplugin executable file is what the libStorageMgmt daemon runs when a client user specifies the megaraid plugin in the URI. so basically you don't call her directly, she gets summoned 😌

🚨 bestie listen — extra SELinux actions are required to allow the plugin to access the hardware. do not skip this, it's giving "nothing works and I don't know why" if you do 😭

Now the messy part 🙈 — when both storcli and perccli are installed, the plugin will use storcli by default, even when that results in no system found on a Dell PERC server. yeah. that's the actual documented behaviour. so in this case, please remove storcli. problem solved, slay 💅

And one more thing, please be noted: the current volume ID is just for temporary use — they're gonna switch to using volume VPD83 as the volume ID once the vendor provides it. so don't get too attached, it's a situationship 🤡

🎀 URI 🎀

To use this plugin, users should set their URI to this format:

megaraid://
    or
megaraid://?storcli=<path_of_storcli>

🌸 URI parameters 🌸

These URI parameters are supported by this plugin — there's literally one, she's lowkey iconic:

  • storcli — the storcli URI parameter is used to specify the path of the storcli/perccli tool. By default, this plugin will try these paths:

storcli rpm:

/opt/MegaRAID/storcli/storcli64, /opt/MegaRAID/storcli/storcli

perccli rpm:

/opt/MegaRAID/perccli/perccli64, /opt/MegaRAID/perccli/perccli

👑 ROOT PRIVILEGE 👑

This plugin requires both the lsmd daemon and the API client running as the root user. both. not one. both. periodt 💯

Please check manpage lsmd.conf (5) for detail.

🔥 SUPPORTED HARDWARES 🔥

Please refer to the LSI or Dell website for the hardware support status of storcli/perccli — they keep the receipts, not us 📋

Detailed support status can be queried via:

  • lsm.Client.capabilities() (Python API) 🐍
  • lsm_capabilities() (C API) ⚙️
  • lsmcli capabilities (lsmcli command line) 💻

🌈 FIREWALL RULES 🌈

This plugin only executes storcli on localhost. No network connection required — she's a homebody, she stays inside 🏠✨

💖 SEE ALSO 💖

💀 BUGS 💀

Please report bugs to <libstoragemgmt-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org> — they're nice, I promise, don't be shy 🫶

🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

Gris Ge <fge@redhat.com> — the actual legend behind this whole thing 👑

and that's the whole page bestie, we ate and left no crumbs 🍓✨

this was megaraid_lsmplugin version 1.10.3, dated June 2015, brought to you by the libStorageMgmt girlies 💜 — mwah, go manage some RAID, you've got this 🧚💅

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