ledctl – Intel LED control application for a storage enclosures.
SYNOPSIS
ledctl [OPTIONS] pattern_name=list_of_devices …
DESCRIPTION
The ledctl is an user space application designed to control LEDs associated with each slot in an enclosure or a drive bay. The LEDs of devices listed in list_of_devices are set to the given pattern pattern_name and all other LEDs are turned off. User must have root privileges to use this application.
There are two types of systems: 2-LEDs systems (Activity LED, Status LED) and 3-LEDs systems (Activity LED, Locate LED, Fail LED). The ledctl application uses SGPIO and SES-2 protocol to control LEDs. The program implements IBPI patterns of SFF-8489 specification for SGPIO. Please note some enclosures do not stick close to SFF-8489 specification. It might happen that enclosure’s processor will accept an IBPI pattern but it will blink the LEDs at variance with SFF-8489 specification or it has limited number of patterns supported.
LED management (AHCI) and SAF-TE protocols are not supported.
The ledctl application has been verified to work with Intel(R) storage controllers (i.e. Intel(R) AHCI controller and Intel(R) SAS controller). The application might work with storage controllers of other vendors (especially SCSI/SAS controllers). However, storage controllers of other vendors have not been tested.
The ledmon application has the highest priority when accessing LEDs. It means that some patterns set by ledctl may have no effect if ledmon is running (except Locate pattern).
The ledctl application is a part of Intel(R) Enclosure LED Utilities.
[root@confignotes ~]# yum install ledctl
Transaction Summary
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Install 1 Package (+1 Dependent package)
Total download size: 123 k
Installed size: 324 k
Is this ok [y/d/N]: y
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(1/2): sg3_utils-libs-1.37-12.el7.x86_64.rpm | 64 kB 00:00:00
(2/2): ledmon-0.80-2.el7.x86_64.rpm | 58 kB 00:00:00
Total 431 kB/s | 123 kB 00:00:00
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Installing : sg3_utils-libs-1.37-12.el7.x86_64 1/2
Installing : ledmon-0.80-2.el7.x86_64 2/2
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Verifying : sg3_utils-libs-1.37-12.el7.x86_64 2/2
Installed:
ledmon.x86_64 0:0.80-2.el7
Dependency Installed:
sg3_utils-libs.x86_64 0:1.37-12.el7
Complete!
EXAMPLES
The following example illustrates how to locate a single block device.
# ledctl locate=/dev/sda
The following example illustrates how to turn Locate LED off for the same block device.
# ledctl locate_off=/dev/sda
The following example illustrates how to locate disks of a RAID device and how to set rebuild pattern for two block devices at the same time. This example uses both formats of device list.
# ledctl locate=/dev/md127 rebuild={ /sys/block/sd[a-b] }
The following example illustrates how to turn Status LED and Failure LED off for the given device(s).
# ledctl off={ /dev/sda /dev/sdb }
The following example illustrates how to locate a three block devices. This example uses the first format of device list.
# ledctl locate=/dev/sda,/dev/sdb,/dev/sdc
FILES
Global log file, used by all instances of ledctl application. To force logging to user defined file use -l option switch.
/var/log/ledctl.log
User configuration file, shared between ledmon and all ledctl application instances.
~/.ledctl
Global configuration file, shared between ledmon and all ledctl application instances.
/etc/ledcfg.conf
For Ubuntu, the package name is ledmon
$ sudo apt-get install ledmon