Monitoring Options; Checking Activity In Your Storage Space - Adaptec RAID 3085 User Manual

Monitoring Options

Adaptec Storage Manager provides many ways to monitor the status of your storage space:
Event Viewer—The main window of Adaptec Storage Manager includes an Event Viewer
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that provides at-a-glance status information about activity occurring in your storage space.
(See the following section.)
Status Icons—Three basic icons (information, warning, and error) appear in the Event
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Viewer and in the main Adaptec Storage Manager window to help you quickly identify
problems. (See
Notification Manager and Email Notification Manager—Notification utilities help you
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monitor these activities on local and remote systems (see
Progress of scheduled tasks, such as logical drive verifications.
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Changes in the status of the physical components of your storage space, such as disk
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drives.
Changes to the local system, such as the expansion of a logical drive expansion or the
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creation of a hot spare.
Audible Alarm—A series of beeps sounds whenever a serious event occurs on your storage
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space. (See
Properties Button—You can check the status of any component in your storage space by
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using the Properties button. (See

Checking Activity in Your Storage Space

From your local system, you can see status information and messages about the activity (or
events) occurring in your storage space by looking at the Event Viewer, which displays a log of
events. Status is indicated by an icon in the left-hand column, as shown in the following figure.
(The icons are described in
Double-click any event to see more details in an easier-to-read format. Click Next to see the
next event in the list.
Double-click to view event
details.
You can monitor activity on, and the status of, remote systems from the local system by using
Adaptec Storage Manager's two notification utilities to broadcast messages—the Notification
Manager (see page
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What Do the Status Icons Mean? on page
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Chapter 8: Monitoring Your Storage Space
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