Monitoring RAID Synchronization

You can monitor the RAID status of the disks to see when the hard disks are synchronized.

If you reboot the appliance before the hard disks are synchronized, the synchronization starts again at the next boot.

Showing RAID Information in Gaia Portal

In the navigation tree, click Maintenance > RAID Monitoring.

You can see the information about RAID Volumes and RAID Volume Disks.

Showing RAID Information in Command Line

Run one of these commands in Gaia Clish The name of the default command line shell in Check Point Gaia operating system. This is a restricted shell (role-based administration controls the number of commands available in the shell). or Expert mode:

• The "raid_diagnostic" command

  Description

  This command shows data about the RAID and hard disks, with the percent synchronization done.

  Syntax

  raid_diagnostic

  Example output from a Smart-1 225 appliance

  Raid Status: VolumeID:0 RaidLevel: RAID-1 NumberOfDisks:2 RaidSize:465GB State:DEGRADED Flags: ENABLED RESYNC _IN_PROGRESS DiskID:0 DiskNumber:0 Vendor:ATA ProductID:<HDD Model> Size:465GB State:ONLINE Flags:NONE DiskID:1 DiskNumber:1 Vendor:ATA ProductID:<HDD Model> Size:465GB State:INITIALIZING Flags:OUT_OF-SYNC SyncState: 12%

  • DiskID 0 is the left hard disk.

  • DiskID 1 is the right hard disk.

• The "cpstat os -f raidInfo" command

  Description

  This command shows almost the same information as the "raid_diagnostic" command, in tabular format.

  Syntax

  cpstat os -f raidInfo

  Example output

  Volume list -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Volume id|Volume type|Number of disks|Max LBA |Volume state|Volume flags|Volume size (GB)| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 0| 2| 2|975175680| 0| 1| 465| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Volume list ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Volume id|Disk id|Disk number|Disk vendor|Disk product id|Disk revision|Disk max LBA|Disk state|Disk flags|Disk sync state|Disk size (GB)| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 0| 0| 0|NONE |NONE |NONE | 0| 1| 0| 0| 0| | 0| 1| 1|NONE |NONE |NONE | 0| 1| 0| 0| 0| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------