NetBSD/usr.sbin/mlxctl/mlxctl.8

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.Dd April 10, 2000
.Dt MLXCTL 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm mlxctl
.Nd Mylex DAC960 family management utility
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm mlxctl
.Op Fl f Ar dev
.Op Fl v
.Op Fl a
status
.Op Ar drive
.Op Ar ...
.Nm mlxctl
.Op Fl f Ar dev
.Op Fl a
detach
.Op Ar drive
.Op Ar ...
.Nm mlxctl
.Op Fl f Ar dev
.Op Fl a
check
.Op Ar drive
.Op Ar ...
.Nm mlxctl
.Op Fl f Ar dev
rebuild
.Ar channel:target
.Nm mlxctl
.Op Fl f Ar dev
cstatus
.Nm mlxctl
.Op Fl f Ar dev
rescan
.Nm mlxctl
.Op Fl f Ar dev
config
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
utility performs status monitoring and management functions for Mylex DAC960
RAID controllers and attached devices.
.Pp
The following options are available:
.Bl -tag -width xxxxxxx
.It Fl a
Apply the action to all drives attached to the controller.
.It Fl f Ar dev
Specify the control device to use.  The default is
.Pa /dev/mlx0 .
.It Fl v
Increased verbosity.
.El
.Pp
The following commands are available:
.Bl -tag -width rebuild
.It cstatus
Display the controller's current status.
.It status
Display the status of the specified drives.
This command returns
0 if all drives tested are online,
1 if one or more drives are critical and
2 if one or more are offline.
.It rescan
Re-scan the logical drive table, and attach or detach devices from the system
as necessary.
.It detach
Detach the specified drives.  Drives must be unmounted and unopened for this
command to succeed.
.It check
Initiate a consistency check and repair pass on a drive that provides
redundancy (e.g., RAID1 or RAID5).  This command returns immediately.  The
.Ar status
command can be used to monitor the progress of the check.
.It rebuild
Rebuild onto the specified physical drive.  Note that there can be only one
running rebuild operation per controller at any given time.
This command returns immediately.  The
.Ar cstatus
command can be used to monitor the progress of the rebuild.
.It config
Write the current system drive configuration to stdout.
.El
.Sh EXAMPLES
Display the status of drive ld3 attached to the controller mlx1:
.sp
.D1 Li "mlxctl -f /dev/mlx1 -v status ld3"
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr ld 4 ,
.Xr mlx 4
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
command first appeared in
.Nx 1.5.3 ,
and was based on
the
.Ic mlxcontrol
utility found in
.Fx .
.Sh BUGS
Modifying drive configuration is not yet supported.
.Pp
Some commands do not work with older firmware revisions.
.Pp
Error log extraction is not yet supported.