45Drives Server CLI Tools

Supported OS

• CentOS 7.X
• Rocky Linux 8.X
• Rocky Linux 9.X
• Ubuntu 20.X.X
• Ubuntu 22.X.X

Contents

• Drive Aliasing

  • dmap: (opt/tools/dmap)

    Automatically configures device aliases for 45Drives Storinator products.
    Options:
    -h, --help show this help message and exit
    -m, --no-udev Creates map but doesnt trigger udev rules
    -s SZ, --size=SZ Specify chassis size
    -q, --quiet Quiet Mode
    -r, --reset-map Resets the drive map
    

• Drive Display

  • lsdev: (opt/tools/lsdev)

    Lists a variety of block device information. Options:
    -h, --help show this help message and exit
    -j, --json Output in JSON format
    -n, --no-color, --no-colour Replace colour coding with asterisks
    -d, --device Output device name "/dev/sd<x>/"
    -H, --health Output SMARTCTL health (slow)
    -m, --model Output model names
    -t, --type Output drive types (HDD/SSD)
    -s, --serial Output serial numbers
    -T, --temp Output temperature (deg-C) (slow)
    -f, --firmware Output firmware version
    -o, --ceph-osd Output OSD name - Ceph only
    

• ZFS Drive Tools

  • zcreate: (/opt/tools/zcreate)

    Automatically creates zpools based on system hardware. Also takes input for fine tuned options. Use '-h' flag for more options
    

• Ceph Drive Tools

  • findosd: (/opt/tools/findosd)

    Takes osd id as input and outputs device alias. If osd is located on another host output is that hostname.
    

  • generate-osd-vars.sh: (opt/tools/generate-osd-vars.sh)

    Outputs list of devive names and device alias to stdout. Used by ceph-ansible playbook to autogenerate devices varibles
    

  • wipedev (/opt/tools/wipedev)

    Wipes the partition table of all drives in system. (excluding server's OS drives).
    

Installation

Rocky Linux or CentOS 7

Enable Official 45Drives Repo

curl -sSL https://repo.45drives.com/setup | sudo bash

Install Package

With the 45drives Repo enabled, you can now install using yum from your terminal.

yum install 45drives-tools

Ubuntu 20

Enable Official 45Drives Repo

curl -sSL https://repo.45drives.com/setup | sudo bash

Install Package

sudo apt install 45drives-tools