Areca CLI
In order to monitor, configure or get a report from an Areca RAID controller, the best tool to use is the Areca command line interface names cli32 or cli64 (for 64 bit systems). Commands are mostly the same for both 32-bit and 64-bit versions therefore the following examples will be using cli32.
Some basic examples:
Show a list of possible commands:
cli32 main
Show the current RAID set (for specific commands, add the -h or -help argument) :
cli32 rsf info
Show the current volume set (for specific commands, add the -h or -help argument) :
cli32 vsf info
Show disk properties:
cli32 disk info
Show 1st disk properties:
cli32 disk info drv=1
Show the event log:
cli32 event info
Show detailed controller information:
cli32 sys info
Show additional details:
cli32 sys showcfg