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Deleting a Task ............................................................................................................................................72
9 Maintaining Physical Devices................................................................................................................................73
Viewing Device Properties ..........................................................................................................................73
Locating Drives in Your Storage Space..........................................................................................................73
Locating a Disk Drive........................................................................................................................74
Locating Physical Disks in a Logical Drive.........................................................................................74
Locating SSDs in the maxCache Container.......................................................................................75
Working with Failed or Failing Disk Drives...................................................................................................76
Replacing Disk Drives in a Logical Drive...........................................................................................76
Setting a Disk Drive to 'Failed'.........................................................................................................76
Initializing and Erasing Disk Drives...............................................................................................................77
Initializing Disk Drives......................................................................................................................77
Erasing Disk Drives...........................................................................................................................77
Verifying and Fixing a Disk Drive..................................................................................................................78
Changing a Disk Drive's Write Cache Setting................................................................................................78
Working with Controllers.............................................................................................................................79
Silencing a Controller Alarm............................................................................................................79
Disabling a Controller Alarm............................................................................................................79
Rescanning a Controller...................................................................................................................80
Setting a Controller's Default Task Priority......................................................................................80
Enabling Native Command Queuing on a Controller.......................................................................80
Working with System Alarms.......................................................................................................................81
Updating Controller and Disk Drive Firmware.............................................................................................82
Before You Begin..............................................................................................................................82
Updating the Controller Firmware ..................................................................................................82
Updating the Disk Drive Firmware ..................................................................................................85
10 Monitoring Status and Activity...........................................................................................................................86
Monitoring Options......................................................................................................................................86
Checking Status from the Main Window .....................................................................................................86
Viewing Activity Status in the Event Log..........................................................................................87
What Do the Event Status Icons Mean?..............................................................................87
Viewing Task Status in the Task Log.................................................................................................88
Viewing Component Status in the Storage Dashboard....................................................................88
Monitoring Enclosure Status...............................................................................................90
Viewing SMART Statistics....................................................................................................90
Viewing Storage Space Usage in Chart View...................................................................................91
Notifying Users by Email About Status and Activity ....................................................................................91
Setting Up Email Notifications.........................................................................................................91
Sending a Test Message...................................................................................................................94
Modifying Recipient Information or Removing a Recipient.............................................................95
Modifying Email Server Settings......................................................................................................96
Creating an Email Notification Template.........................................................................................96
Broadcasting Alerts About Status and Activity ............................................................................................97
Monitoring Advanced Statistics about Activity in Your Storage Space.........................................................97
Setting up Statistics Logging............................................................................................................97
Viewing Advanced Statistics............................................................................................................98
Resetting the Statistics Counters.....................................................................................................99
Changing an Operating System's Event Log Setting...................................................................................100
11 Managing Your Storage Space..........................................................................................................................101
Deploying Servers ......................................................................................................................................101
Creating a Server Template File.....................................................................................................101
Duplicating the Server Template....................................................................................................101
Managing Remote Systems........................................................................................................................103
Adding Remote Systems with the Wizard......................................................................................103
Manually Adding a Remote System...............................................................................................103
Removing a Remote System..........................................................................................................104
Changing the Auto-Discovery Settings...........................................................................................105
Clearing the Controller Configuration........................................................................................................106
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