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12.5 Connecting and Disconnecting from a
Disk Array
One benefit of Event Monitor is that the program can be installed as a permanent window on array
status. Before system monitoring can be performed on a particular disk array system, you need to
first establish the connection between your management station and the Primary Agent host. Once
the connection is established successfully, system events can be displayed.
All the arrays controlled by a Primary Agent server, as each is a controller communicating through
a Secondary agent, appear on the Connection View window.
There is only one controller icon for disk arrays using redundant controller configuration. Controller
configuration is synchronized between two controllers and these two controllers appear to the host
as one controller.
Disconnection is used for breaking the link between the Event Monitor station and the array.
Normally, all the arrays should be selected and all it takes to switch around multiple disk arrays is
but a single mouse click? instead of restarting the Event Monitor every time you need to switch to
another system.
The following discusses how to connect to a disk array.
12.5.1 Connecting to a RAID System while working from the
Local Primary Agent Host
1 From the Connect menu, select Open. Repeat this process to select all the Primary Agent hosts.
Figure 12–1 Connecting to the RAID Agent
Click the Default button. (Figure 12–1)
2 As shown in Figure 12–2, Select the IP address of the RAID you would like to monitor or manage
from the Connection View list. Double click the IP address. Double click the controller icon. Double
click the connection method (e.g., In-Band SCSI).