Failed disk and frustrated with how immensely difficult it is to identify it

[NickF1227]

@dan

they’ve done so with at least one other thread (I think from @NickF1227?) describing how to enable some “Enterprise” feature without the Enterprise license.

There was a thread (not mine) on the old Forums for how to turn FibreChannel on in CORE that I remember, but thats all I can recall. How TrueNAS Enterprise does slot mappings is on GitHub for anyone to view. It may be possible to write a similar script extension for your own specific hardware. However, there be dragons.

Here’s my brief exploration of this topic

View Enclosure Screen for non-iX hardware

I think the biggest challenge here is the non uniformity of hardware. For folks with real SAS implementations sg_ses does exist for this kinda thing, folks with Supermicro 2/4U servers as an example can flash the lights on a drive with those tools. But alot of folks don’t even have SAS backplanes, and none of this works with SATA. Then let’s wrap in Dell/HP/Cisco/Lenovo whose back planes may not be as straightforward and may have proprietary communications for these types of functions. I had …

As for this thread I had suggested using NetBox as a source of truth for drive mappings…and I still think that’s a valid solution to this problem. Maybe one of these days I’ll do a writeup for NetBox because it’s really quite useful to have a IPAM/DCIM tool in your homelab.

View Enclosure Screen for non-iX hardware

If you are requesting something that requires the user to manually input the data as to what-drive-is-in-what-slot then I have less of a technical concern and more of a practical one. The whole reason why Enclosure View is such a nice Enterprise feature is because you do not need to have prior knowledge of what hard drive serial number is in what drive slot. Having to do it manually would be far less useful (with a high risk for error), and such a need is better served in a single pane of glas…

Also @dan I just saw your script. zpscan-scale/zpscan-scale.sh at master · danb35/zpscan-scale · GitHub Very nice. Obviously not a product endorsement, just looks cool. I wonder if you could do the same thing without using encled. I think sg_ses can do it.