The Menu Monitor; Menu Monitor: View Statistics - ICP RS Series User Manual

„Save Information" creates a complete
protocol file of the current RAID sub-
system including all settings of the ICP
Controller and the drives. This file can
be used for documentary reasons or for
remote diagnosis.
J.3 The Menu Monitor
J.3.1 Menu Monitor: View Statistics
In each of these menus, ICPCON displays the performance of the drives of the correspond-
ing level of hierarchy. The throughput of the drives is displayed
in KB/s (KiloBytes per second) and IO/s (I/Os per second,
number of IO's on the controller). The performance figures
reflect the load being on the controller and not necessarily the
maximum performance the controller can deliver.
After selecting one of the Drives Statistics ICPCON displays a list of all Drives of this level
(for this example the Physical Drives, i.e., level 1). In addition to the performance report on
the Drives, you are given additional information on each device. The ICP I/O channel the
hard disk is connected to, which ID the hard disk has, the name of the hard disk, the gross
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„Configure Array Drives" allows you to
configure or create Array Drives.
With „Configure Host Drives" you can
either configure already existing Host
Drives, or create new ones. I.e., you can
create under normal operation new
Host Drives without shutting down the
computer.
The „Repair Array Drives" menu offers
very powerful menu-guided functions to
repair Array Drives which have failed
drives.