Advanced Mode; Limitations; Viewing Events - Promise Technology 1000f series Product Manual

Advanced Mode

Advanced Mode enables you to perform the Simple Mode functions, plus:
• View Enclosure – View overall enclosure status. Also view individual status
of temperature, fan, power supply, and voltage
• Physical Drive Management – View PD ID, model, interface, capacity,
location (enclosure and slot number), configuration (array and sequence
number), firmware version, status; Locate physical drive
• Logical Disk Management – View LD ID, capacity, RAID level, write cache,
stripe size, sector size, disk array ID, status; Locate logical drive

Limitations

The LCD panel does not perform the following functions:
• Setting enclosure date and time
• Clearing a Stale or PFA condition from a physical drive
• Creating a revertible spare drive or a dedicated spare drive
• Running background activity, such as Media Patrol, PDM, Rebuild, or RAID
level migration
• Making FC, iSCSI, or SAS settings
• Viewing event logs
• Shutting down or restarting the VessRAID
Refer to "Chapter 4: Management with WebPAM PROe" on page 57 and
"Chapter 6: Management with the CLU" on page 207 when you need to perform
these functions.

Viewing Events

Each event has a severity level defined as:
• Information – Information only, no action is required.
• Warning – User can decide whether or not action is required.
• Minor – Action is needed but the condition is not a serious at this time.
• Major – Action is needed now
• Critical – Action is needed now and the implications of the condition are
serious.
• Fatal – Non-Recoverable error or failure has occurred.
• None – Deactivates this event for notification purposes.
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