Overview; Web-Based Promise Array Manager - NEC Express5800 Series User Manual

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1. Overview

Web-based Promise Array Manager (hereafter abbreviated for WebPAM) is a Web-based

application that locally or remotely manages N8103-89, N8103-101, or N8103-103 Disk Array

Controller provided by Promise.

WebPAM only supports Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) 6.0 or later as its browser. After

installing WebPAM, the following features become available in the system.

Creating or deleting the following logical arrays on the graphical operation screen of

the browser

RAID0 (data striping with one or more hard disk drives)

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RAID1 (data mirroring with two hard disk drives)

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RAID5 (data striping with parity with more than two hard disk drives)

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RAID1 spanning (same as RAID10. Data mirroring and striping with four hard disk

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drives)

Checking consistency among logical drives (synchronization)

Checking media error in disks (media patrol)

Auto-recovering degraded logical drives if entered into the state (rebuild)

To manage N8103-89, N8103-101 or N8103-103 remotely from the management computer,

WebPAM must be installed in the machine to which N8103-101 is connected. These two

computers must be set to allow communication with each other via TCP/IP. HTTPS or SSL is

used for communication via TCP/IP in order to endure security and encrypt transfer data.

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