How can I view hard drive information using ipmitool?
To view disk information using ipmitool, you need to connect to the remote server and run the following command with administrative privileges:
- First, list the available hardware sensors using the following command:
- List of sensors using IPMI tool
- Search for sensors related to the hard drive, usually starting with “drive” or “disk”, such as “drive-fault” or “disk-status”.
- Retrieve the value of a specific sensor using the following command:
- Retrieve the information of a sensor using the ipmitool command followed by the sensor name.
- Replace “” with the name of the hard drive sensor that you found.
- For example, to check the status of the hard drive, you can use the following command:
- Show the status of the drive fault sensor using ipmitool.
Please note that in order to use ipmitool to view disk information, you need to have administrative privileges and the remote server must support IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface).