How They Work Together - Promise Technology PAM User Manual

Promise Array Management

How They Work Together

The Promise Array Management (PAM) utility provides an easy way to set
up, monitor, modify and repair your RAID. PAM works with the Promise
FastTrak card, SuperTrak card and UltraTrak RAID subsystem.
PAM watches the RAID and when significant events happen, or it
discovers a problem, the Message Agent sends a warning to the Message
Server. The Message Server passes the warning along to all PCs running
the Monitoring Utility.
Warnings appear on the PC in the form of email messages and popup
alerts. You can select either one or both. You can also select which
events and problems PAM will report.
A major benefit of PAM is that it runs over a TCP/IP network. This enables
remote monitoring of your RAIDs, including offsite monitoring over an
Internet connection.
Once you become aware of a problem, go to the RAID PC to take
corrective action. If you have more than one RAID PC on your network,
PAM will indicate which one has the problem.
PAM allows only monitoring access through the network. Management
access occurs only at the RAID PC.
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