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NAME

       ledctl - Intel(R) 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.

   Pattern Names
       The ledctl application accepts the following names for pattern_name argument according to
       SFF-8489 specification.

       locate  Turns Locate LED associated with the given device(s) or empty slot(s) on.

       locate_off
               Turns only Locate LED off.

       normal  Turns Status LED, Failure LED and Locate LED off.

       off     Turns only Status LED and Failure LED off.

       ica or degraded
               Visualizes "In a Critical Array" pattern.

       rebuild or rebuild_p
               Visualizes "Rebuild" pattern.

       ifa or failed_array
               Visualizes "In a Failed Array" pattern.

       hotspare
               Visualizes "Hotspare" pattern.

       pfa     Visualizes "Predicted Failure Analysis" pattern.

       failure or disk_failed
               Visualizes "Failure" pattern.

       ses_abort
               SES-2 R/R ABORD

       ses_rebuild
               SES-2 REBUILD/REMAP

       ses_ifa SES-2 IN FAILED ARRAY

       ses_ica SES-2 IN CRIT ARRAY

       ses_cons_check
               SES-2 CONS CHECK

       ses_hotspare
               SES-2 HOT SPARE

       ses_rsvd_dev
               SES-2 RSVD DEVICE

       ses_ok  SES-2 OK

       ses_ident
               SES-2 IDENT

       ses_rm  SES-2 REMOVE

       ses_insert
               SES-2 INSERT

       ses_missing
               SES-2 MISSING

       ses_dnr SES-2 DO NOT REMOVE

       ses_active
               SES-2 ACTIVE

       ses_enbale_bb
               SES-2 ENABLE BYP B

       ses_enable_ba
               SES-2 ENABLE BYP A

       ses_devoff
               SES-2 DEVICE OFF

       ses_fault
               SES-2 FAULT

   Patterns Translation
       When non SES-2 pattern is send to device in enclosure automatic translation is being done.

       locate  locate is translated to ses_ident

       locate_off
               locate_off is translated to ~ses_ident

       normal  normal is translated to ses_ok

       off     off is translated to ses_ok

       degraded
               degraded is translated to ses_ica

       rebuild rebuild is translated to ses_rebuild

       rebuild_p
               rebuild_p is translated to ses_rebuild

       failed  failed is translated to ses_ifa

       hotspare
               hotspare is translated to ses_hotspare

       pfa     pfa is translated to ses_rsvd_dev

       failure failure is translated to ses_fault

       disk_failed
               disk_failed is translated to ses_fault

   List of Devices
       The application accepts a list of devices in two formats. The first format is a list with
       comma separated elements. The second format is a list in curly braces and elements are
       separated by space. See examples section bellow for details.

       A device is a path to file in /dev directory or in /sys/block directory.  It may identify
       a block device, a RAID device or a container device.  In case of a RAID device or a
       container device a state will be set for all block devices associated, respectively.

       The LEDs of devices listed in list_of_devices are set to the given pattern pattern_name
       and all other LEDs are turned off.

OPTIONS

       -c or --config=path
               Sets a path to local configuration file. If this option is specified the global
               configuration file and user configuration file has no effect.

       -l or --log=path
               Sets a path to local log file. If this option is specified the global log file
               /var/log/ledctl.log is not used.

       -h or --help
               Prints this text out and exits.

       -v or --version
               Displays version of ledctl and information about the license and exits.

FILES

       /var/log/ledctl.log
               Global log file, used by all instances of ledctl application. To force logging to
               user defined file use -l option switch.

       ~/.ledctl
               User configuration file, shared between ledmon and all ledctl application
               instances.

       /etc/ledcfg.conf
               Global configuration file, shared between ledmon and all ledctl application
               instances.

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

LICENSE

       Copyright (c) 2009-2013 Intel Corporation.

       This program is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published
       by the Free Software Foundation. See the built-in help for details on the License and the
       lack of warranty.

SEE ALSO

       ledmon(8), ledctl.conf(5)

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Artur Wojcik <artur.wojcik@intel.com>. It may be used by
       others.