Software Prerequisites; Hardware Prerequisites; Basic Storage Management Service - Dell External OEMR 850 User Manual

Software Prerequisites

The Array Manager managed system and the enhanced Storage Management Service (Storage Management)
cannot be installed on the same system. Managed systems that do not have either Array Manager or the
enhanced Storage Management Service installed will still be able to perform SCSI diagnostics for
direct-attached storage devices; however, RAID controller and storage diagnostics cannot be performed.
NOTE:
Array Manager is an installation choice using Custom Setup. If the system already has Array Manager
installed, then the most current version of Array Manager is installed using Express Setup. See the
Dell OpenManage Array Manager User's Guide for complete software and hardware requirements. Array Manager
has both a managed system and a management station (console) component. The managed system portion of Array
Manager replaces the Windows 2000 Disk Management Service. To view the Disk Management page, you must
install the management station component of Array Manager on the same system as the managed system component.
NOTE:
The enhanced Storage Management Service (Storage Management) is also an installation choice using
Custom Setup. The enhanced Storage Management Service cannot, however, be installed on a system that has the
Array Manager managed system. The enhanced Storage Management Service is installed by default using Express
Setup on systems that do not have an Array Manager installation. See the enhanced Storage Management Service
readme (readme_sm.txt) and Server Administrator readme (readme_sa.txt) for complete software and
hardware requirements.
NOTE:
Array Manager is not supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating systems.

Hardware Prerequisites

Installing the basic or enhanced Storage Management Service on a system that does not have a
supported controller, or a controller that is not attached to storage is an unsupported configuration.
For a list of the supported controllers and for other information about the basic and enhanced Storage
Management Service hardware requirements, see the Array Manager, Server Administrator, and Storage
Management readme files on the Systems Management Consoles CD.

Basic Storage Management Service

The basic Storage Management Service enables you to view the status of a server's direct-attached storage
devices. The Storage Management Service obtains logical and physical information about attached
storage devices from the Array Manager managed system.
The basic Storage Management Service enables you to perform the following tasks from the Server
Administrator graphical interface:
• Display all of your storage information in a graphical environment. See the Storage object section in
"Instrumentation Service" for a description of the available storage information.
• Run the Server Administrator Diagnostic Service to diagnose problems with your storage devices. See
"Diagnostic Service" for complete instructions. This feature is only available when the Array Manager
managed system is installed.
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