This brief note talks about an issue I encountered with the Dell OpenManage agents after replacing a failed disk.
Recently on one of my Dell PowerEdge servers, a disk failed within one of the local RAID-5 arrays. The disk was replaced and the array rebuild and background initialization completed successfully without errors. After the rebuild operations had completed I opened the Dell OpenManage status page to review the system and noticed that one the connectors on the PERC controller was flagged with a warning state.
Drilling down to the backplane properties showed the state was Degraded, yet the Virtual Disks showed all green.
The actual problem appears to be a disconnect between the management agents and the PERC controller where they are not registering the stable state of the controller after a failed disk has been replaced.
The solution is to simply restart the Dell OpenManage Windows services.
After the management agents have been restarted, the system page should show a green status on the connector that was previously showing degraded.
