Acer Altos RAIDWatch, Manual

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Introduction
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– User-configurable fax messages sent along with the event description
– Automatic message retransmission in the event previous transmission attempts fail
• Provides password protection for guarding against unauthorized modification of disk array
configuration.
A.3 Featured Highlights
This section explains in greater detail the important features of Altos RAIDWatch.
A.3.1 Graphical User Interface
Altos RAIDWatch’s graphical interface is designed for ease-of-use. It uses symbolic icons to
represent physical and logical drives, and logical volumes on the screen; and to identify the current
configuration of a disk array system. Pull-down and pop-up menus are used with all command
options listed.
Users need only point and click a mouse button to select an icon or command. The program also
identifies the current status of various drives by changing the colors of their respective icons.
With an easy-to-use interface, complicated disk array operations such as logical drive and logical
volume creation, drive partitioning, and drive partition mapping to host channels/LUNs can be
completed with only a few mouse clicks.
A.3.2 Enclosure Management
Figure A–1 Enclosure Window
The enclosure window provides real-time reporting of the status of the connected physical drives.
When a drive fails, the system highlights the corresponding icon of the failed drive by placing a red
X mark on it; when you remove a drive, its icon is removed from the enclosure window. This feature
is particularly useful in cases where a drive fails, and you need to identify its exact location for
subsequent replacement.