Storage Console Plus; Introduction; Monitoring Of The Whole Subsystem; Remote Configuration And Maintenance - Intel SRCU32 - RAID Controller User Manual

8 Storage Console Plus

Introduction

Storage Console Plus (StorCon+) is a tool for setting up, monitoring and maintaining mass storage
subsystems based on Intel RAID Controller SRCU32. Different from StorCon, StorCon+ is a GUI
style application, designed for the operation under Win32 Operating Systems. The primary
function of StorCon+ is to help the user accomplish the following tasks.
Setup Hard Drives Controlled by Intel RAID Controller SRCU32:
Setup and initialize physical drives, change the SCSI parameters and cache settings.
Easy setup and installation of single disks or array drives consisting of one or more physical
drives (chaining, RAID 0, 1, 4, 5, or 10).
Online installation of host drives based on a single disk or an array drive.
Maintenance and Tuning of Existing Array Drives, Host Drives and Intel RAID Controller
SRCU32:
Cache Memory Configuration
Update the controller firmware
Change the device parameters
Check or recalculate the parity data of RAID 4 and RAID 5 array drives
Online capacity expansion of array drives
Split and merge host drives
Hot Plug. Replace a failed member of an array drive
Hot Fix. Configure a spare disk for an array drive
Configure SAF-TE compliant enclosures

Monitoring of the Whole Subsystem

Watch the performance and throughput of virtually every part of the subsystem. Simply
drag-and-drop the device on the statistics window.
Check the hard drives for retries and reassigns (replacements of defective sectors on a hard
drive) to trace problems which might become potential in the future.
Check the grown defect table of the hard drives to replace a defective drive in time.

Remote Configuration and Maintenance

Except for the hot plug function, all of the above features can be accessed via network.
You can maintain and monitor a customer's server via the Internet.
Supported protocols: IPX/SPX, TCP/IP, NetBIOS.
The access to the Intel RAID Controller SRCU32 can be protected by password. The password
is encrypted.
To install the StorCon+, use the Intel RAID Controller SRCU32 tools program on the Intel RAID
Controller SRCU32 System CD-ROM.
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