How to silence the Disk Alarm on a NetBackup Appliance

Article: 100007543
Last Published: 2011-12-08
Ratings: 6 6
Product(s): Appliances

Problem

The NetBackup Appliances will sound an audible alarm when a hard drive failure is detected.

Cause

This alarm is controlled by the RAID card installed on the Appliance.

Solution

First verify what is causing the Alarm:

# /opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli64 -AdpGetProp AlarmDsply -aall

The Alarm can then be silenced with this command:

# /opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli64 -AdpSetProp AlarmSilence -aall

If desired the Alarm can be disabled completely with:

# /opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli64 -AdpSetProp AlarmDsbl –aall

To enable the alarm again:

# /opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli64 -AdpSetProp  AlarmEnbl –aall
 

 

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