[Ubuntu] PERC6/i on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

To use the PERC6/i i.e. the

03:00.0 RAID bus controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS 1078 (rev 04)

on Ubuntu, megacli is the best tool - but rarely available due to the demise of LSI Logic. Good thing that the guys from https://hwraid.le-vert.net put together a nice repo to host the latest RAID files. And yes, for everyone that does not like the idea of including a foreign repo - sorry to disappoint here :/.

# Add GPG signatures
wget -O - https://hwraid.le-vert.net/debian/hwraid.le-vert.net.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -

# Add Package Repo
echo "deb http://hwraid.le-vert.net/ubuntu xenial main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/hwraid.list

# Upgrade and Install
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install megacli

After that, megacli is installed and can be used:

# Basic Commands
# Info Controller
sudo megacli -AdpAllInfo -aAll
sudo megacli -CfgDsply -aALL

# Info Virtuelles Laufwerk
sudo megacli -LDInfo -Lall -aALL

# Info Battery
sudo megacli -AdpBbuCmd -aALL

I picked out the most important infos for me and wrote this little script

#!/bin/bash

echo "Some Infos are commeted out in this script to not overwhel the user ;)"

#echo "----------------------- RAID Controller"
#sudo megacli -AdpAllInfo -aAll

#echo "----------------------- RAID Controller Config"
#sudo megacli -CfgDsply -aALL

echo "----------------------- RAID Battery"
#sudo megacli -AdpBbuCmd -aALL
sudo megacli -AdpBbuCmd -aALL | grep "Battery State:"
sudo megacli -AdpBbuCmd -aALL | grep "Charger Status:"
sudo megacli -AdpBbuCmd -aALL | grep "Relative State of Charge:"
sudo megacli -AdpBbuCmd -aALL | grep "Next Learn time:"

echo "----------------------- RAID Virtual Drive"
#sudo megacli -LDInfo -Lall -aALL
sudo megacli -LDInfo -Lall -aALL | grep "State"

echo "----------------------- RAID Harddrive Status"
sudo megacli -CfgDsply -aAll | grep "Drive has flagged a S.M.A.R.T alert"

Additional infos can be found on:

http://erikimh.com/megacli-cheatsheet/

https://www.thomas-krenn.com/de/wiki/MegaRAID_Controller_mit_MegaCLI_verwalten