How to silence the Disk Alarm on a NetBackup Appliance
Problem
The NetBackup Appliances will sound an audible alarm when a hard drive failure is detected.
Cause
This alarm is controlled by the RAID card installed on the Appliance.
Solution
First verify what is causing the Alarm:
The Alarm can then be silenced with this command:
# /opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli64 -AdpSetProp AlarmSilence -aall
If desired the Alarm can be disabled completely with:
# /opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli64 -AdpSetProp AlarmDsbl –aall
# /opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli64 -AdpSetProp AlarmEnbl –aall