Web Browser-Based Configuration; Start-Up Mcraid Storage Manager - Areca ARC-1110 User Manual

WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION

6. Web Browser-based Configuration
Before using the McRAID firmware-based browser utility, do the ini-
tial setup and installation of this product. If you need to boot up the
operating system from a RAID volume set, you must first create a
RAID volume by using McBIOS RAID Storage Manager. Please refer
to section 3.3 Using Quick Volume /Raid Setup Configuration for
information on creating this initial volume set.
The McRAID storage manager is firmware-based utility, which is ac-
cessible via the browser installed on your operating system.The Web
Browser-based McRAID Storage Manager is a HTML-based application,
which utilizes the browser (IE, Netscape and Mozilla etc) installed on
your monitor station.
It can be accessed through the In-Band PCI-X/PCIe bus or Out-of-Band
ethernet port. The In-Band method via archttp proxy server to launch
the Web Browser-based McRAID Storage Manager. The firmware-em-
bedded Web Browser-based McRAID storage manager allows local
or remote to access it from any standard internet browser via a LAN
or WAN with no software or patches required. The firmware contains
SMTP manager monitors all system events and user can select either
single or multiple user notifications to be sent via LAN with "Plain Eng-
lish" e-mails. The firmware-embedded SNMP agent allows remote to
monitor events via LAN with no SNMP agent required.
• Create raid set
• Expand raid set
• Define volume set
• Add physical drive
• Modify volume set
• Modify RAID level/stripe size
• Define pass-through disk drives
• Modify system function
• Update firmware
• Designate drives as hot spares

6.1 Start-up McRAID Storage Manager

With the McRAID Storage Manager, you can locally manage a sys-
tem containing a SATA RAID controller that has Windows or Linux
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