Displaying rechargeable battery information
Use this procedure to display information about the controller rechargeable battery.
- Navigate to the IBM® SAS Disk Array Manager by using the steps found in Using the Disk Array Manager.
- Select Diagnostics and Recovery Options.
- Select Controller Rechargeable Battery Maintenance.
- Select Display Controller Rechargeable Battery Information.
- Select the controller. The screen displayed
will look similar to the following Command Status screen.
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | COMMAND STATUS | | | |Command: OK stdout: yes stderr: no | | | |Before command completion, additional instructions may appear below. | | | |RAID Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . : sissas0 | |Battery Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . : Lithium Ion (LiIon) | |Battery State . . . . . . . . . . . . . : No battery warning/error | |Power-on time (days) . . . . . . . . . : 139 | |Adjusted power-on time (days) . . . . . : 152 | |Estimated time to warning (days) . . . : 751 | |Estimated time to error (days) . . . . : 834 | |Concurrently maintainable battery pack. : Yes | |Battery pack can be safely replaced . . : No | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |F1=Help F2=Refresh F3=Cancel F6=Command | |F8=Image F9=Shell F10=Exit /=Find | |n=Find Next | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
The following are the fields displayed on the rechargeable battery information screen:
- RAID Adapter
- The name of the selected controller.
- Battery Type
- The type of rechargeable cache battery pack.
- Battery State
- Indicates if an error condition currently exists related to the
rechargeable cache battery pack. The possible values for this field
are:
- No battery warning/error
- No warning or error condition currently exists.
- Warning condition
- A warning condition currently exists and an error has been logged.
- Error condition
- An error condition currently exists and an error has been logged.
- Unknown
- Information is not available to determine whether a warning or error condition currently exists.
- Power-on time (days)
- Indicates the raw power-on time, in units of days, of the rechargeable cache battery pack.
- Adjusted power-on time (days)
- Indicates the adjusted (prorated) power-on time, in units of
days, of the rechargeable cache battery pack. Note: Some rechargeable cache battery packs are negatively affected by higher temperatures and thus are prorated based on the amount of time that they spend at various ambient temperatures.
- Estimated time to warning (days)
- Estimated time, in units of days, until a message is issued indicating that the replacement of the rechargeable cache battery pack should be scheduled.
- Estimated time to error (days)
- Estimated time, in units of days, until an error is reported indicating that the rechargeable cache battery pack must be replaced.
- Concurrently maintainable battery pack
- Indicates if the rechargeable cache battery pack can be replaced while the controller continues to operate.
- Battery pack can be safely replaced
- Indicates if the controller's write cache has been disabled and the rechargeable cache battery pack can be safely replaced.
Last updated: Wed, May 24, 2017