reference_element_api_testdrives.adoc

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api/reference_element_api_testdrives.html	sidebar	drive,drives,test,testing,validating,hardware,testdrives	You can use the TestDrives method to run a hardware validation on all drives on the node. This method detects hardware failures on the drives and reports any in the results of the validation tests.

TestDrives

You can use the TestDrives method to run a hardware validation on all drives on the node. This method detects hardware failures on the drives and reports any in the results of the validation tests.

Parameters

You can only use the TestDrives method on nodes that are not "Active" in a cluster.

Note	This test takes approximately 10 minutes.

This method has the following input parameters:

Name	Description	Type	Default value	Required
force	Set to true to test the drives on the node.	boolean	None	Yes
minutes	Specifies the number of minutes for the test to run.	integer	10	No

Return value

This method has the following return value:

Name	Description	Type
details	Information about the test operation success or failure.	JSON object

Request example

Requests for this method are similar to the following example:

{
   "method": "TestDrives",
   "params": {
              "force": true,
              "minutes" : 10
             },
   "id" : 1
}

Response example

This method returns a table containing test results for each drive in the node.

New since version

9.6