topic Re: Why is there no command line for a failed disk drive ? in AFF

Why is there no command line for a failed disk drive ?

pippen23 — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 12:42:41 GMT

In the past couple months, we have had a couple disk drives fail, replacement parts ordered and shipped to us. But, there is no Netapp command to tell which disk has failed from the command line...so, I end up walking down to the basement, checking for an amber light, why ? Why is there no disk show command status =failed ???

Grrr

Re: Why is there no command line for a failed disk drive ?

SpindleNinja — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 01:28:38 GMT

Try...

cluster::>storage disk show -container-type broken

(there's several other variations too) .

Re: Why is there no command line for a failed disk drive ?

pippen23 — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:31:46 GMT

-container-type -container-name
MDC-1N01::> storage disk show -container-type broken
There are no entries matching your query.

MDC-1N01::>

This is a false positive after changing out a failed disk, and, the amber light is on the disk and shelf. I am looking for a command to determine what is the status of the amber light on a disk(or any disk), without having to march down to the datacenter to check the status.

Re: Why is there no command line for a failed disk drive ?

andris — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 17:35:07 GMT

Here's a few commands to help understand about storage/disk faults.

::> storage disk show -broken

::> storage disk error show

::> node run -node <name> -command "storage show fault -v"

Re: Why is there no command line for a failed disk drive ?

SpindleNinja — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 17:52:21 GMT

If there is an amber light on after the disk change it's probably not assigned.

But as far as disk status in the shelf. check out this command:

CLUSTER::> storage shelf show -bay

Shelf Name: 2.0
Stack ID: 2
Shelf ID: 0
Shelf UID: 00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00
Serial Number: xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Module Type: IOM6E
Model: DS4246
Shelf Vendor: NETAPP
Disk Count: 24
Connection Type: SAS
Shelf State: Online
Status: Normal

Bays:

Has Operational
ID Disk Bay Type Status
--- ----- ----------- -----------
0 true single-disk normal
1 true single-disk normal
2 true single-disk normal
3 true single-disk normal
4 true single-disk normal
5 true single-disk normal
6 true single-disk normal
7 true single-disk normal
8 true single-disk normal
9 true single-disk normal
10 true single-disk normal
11 true single-disk normal
12 true single-disk normal
13 true single-disk normal
14 true single-disk normal
15 true single-disk normal
16 true single-disk normal
17 true single-disk normal
18 true single-disk normal
19 true single-disk normal
20 true single-disk normal
21 true single-disk normal
22 true single-disk normal
23 true single-disk normal

Errors:
------
-

storage shelf show -instance will give you a lot of detail about the shelves / disks

Re: Why is there no command line for a failed disk drive ?

tekievb — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 19:13:16 GMT

You can run the commands below:

cluster::> storage show disk -broken or system node run -node NODENAME "vol status -f"

If you have quite a few shelves/disks, I always ensure that I turn the led_on just to ensure the lights are on and disk is easily identified.

system node run -node NODENAME (will take you to the old prompt like back in 7-mode)

priv set -advanced

led_on diskID

Once the disk has been replaced you may need to assign disk ownership if auto assign is not enabled.

Re: Why is there no command line for a failed disk drive ?

RajeshPanda — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 08:48:44 GMT

@pippen23 Following up to see if you are still looking for the solution.

Re: Why is there no command line for a failed disk drive ?

pippen23 — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 21:26:59 GMT

working with support, turns out I may have a bad bay in a shelf...ouch!

Re: Why is there no command line for a failed disk drive ?

pippen23 — Mon, 22 Apr 2019 20:56:48 GMT

Failing over the cluster and a giveback fixed the issue, we needed to do s SCSI reset, which cleared the error.