Western Digital Array Management Setup User Manual page 9

Limit your installation to the computers of RAID users and your IT administrator. AMS
features password protection to further limit access and provide security of your data.
Home-based PC
+ Monitoring Utility
A networked PC
+ Monitoring Utility
PC
+ WD SATA RAID Controller
+ Message Agent
Message Server
The Message Server is required if your RAID PC connects to a network.
If you want run AMS over a network, install the Message Server on one of your networked
computers including a file server, a networked PC or the RAID PC.
Only one installation of the Message Server is required for AMS to work over a network. You
may install Message Server on more than one network PC or file server, but AMS's network
configuration will only use one of them, thus any additional installations are useless.
Do not install the Message Server on any PC that may be disconnected from the network,
such as a laptop or a computer that connects via the Internet. Not only will a disconnect cause
AMS to fail, but reconnecting again may involve time-consuming network configuration.
Network configuration is discussed later in this chapter.
Message Agent
The Message Agent installs on the RAID PC, whether your RAID is networked or not. For
AMS to monitor and manage a RAID, it must have Message Agent installed.
If you have more than one AMS-compatible RAID PC on your network, you may install a
copy of Message Agent on all of them.
Internet
Modem
Router & Firewall
Company LAN
PC
+ WD SATA RAID Controller
+ Internal RAID array
+ Message Agent
Figure 4. Networked RAID has many installation options
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Laptop computer
+ Monitoring Utility
Network File Server
+ Message Serv er
PC
+ WD SATA RAID Controller
+ Message Agent
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