Icp Raid Navigator; Introduction - ICP RS Series User Manual

K. ICP RAID Navigator
K.1 Introduction
The ICP RAID Navigator (ICPRNAV) is a powerful tool for setting up, monitoring and main-
taining mass storage subsystems based on ICP Controllers. Different to ICP RAID Console
the ICP RAID Navigator is a pure GUI-style application, designed for the operation under
Windows 95, 98, NT and Windows 2000. The main features are:
Setup of hard disks controlled by the ICP Controller
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 the ICP Controller
Configure the cache memory.
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 disks for retries and reassigns (replacements of defective sectors on a
hard disk) to trace problems which might become potential in the future.
Check the grown defect table of the hard disks to replace a defective drive in time.
Remote configuration and maintenance
Except 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:
The access to the ICP Controller can be protected by password. The password is en-
crypted.
To install the ICP RAID Navigator, use the icptools program on the ICP System CDROM.
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