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PC Server 330 - Administration and Monitoring Utilities
Applicable to: World-Wide
Administration and Monitoring Utilities:
The Administration and Monitoring program contains RAID monitoring utility programs for several operating systems that the ServeRAID adapter supports. You can monitor the ServeRAID configuration program in the local and remote systems by using these programs.
The following is an example of an Administration and Monitoring program screen.
Monitoring the Adapter Status in a Local System:
The Device Driver/Administration Monitoring Program diskette provides monitoring programs that you can use to perform disk-array maintenance tasks. Because the monitoring programs reside on top of the operating system, you do not need to restart the server.
Instead, you can perform tasks such as the following from the active operating system desktop:
- Select the adapter that you want to monitor.
- View information about drives connected to the adapter, and change the drive state.
- Reassign a drive to replace a defunct drive.
Some operating systems provide additional features, such as adding and deleting a logical drive. Refer to the README file on the Administration and Monitoring program for specific information and installation instructions.
Monitoring Adapter Status from a Remote System:
The ServeRAID Administration and Monitoring programs support the Client/Server environment using TCP/IP on a variety of platforms. The server programs run on the system containing a ServeRAID adapter and is supported on a number of operating systems. See the README file on the Administration and Monitoring program for more information.
The Client program runs in various Windows environments:
Windows NT Server Version 3.51
Windows NT Workstation Version 3.51
Windows 95
The Client program includes many of the functions contained in the ServeRAID configuration program. Because it resides on top of the operating system, you do not need to restart the server to add and remove capacity dynamically when creating or deleting an array. You can start the Administration and Monitoring program from the active operating system desktop.
This monitoring program allows you to:
View the ServeRAID configuration and associated devices
Reassign a drive to replace a defunct drive
Create a logical drive
Create an array
Delete an array
In addition, in an array that contains only one logical drive, and the total number of logical drives in all arrays is less than 7, you can change the logical drive RAID level from level 0 to level 5 (or level 5 to level 0).
See the README file on the Administration and Monitoring program for instructions on installing and using this monitoring utility.
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Date Created |
12-02-97 | |
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11-02-99 | |
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11-02-2000 | |
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IBM PC Server | |
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PC Server 330, ServeRAID | |
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8640, Various | |
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