Chapter 9: Managing Your Storage Space
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About ICP Storage Manager
Note:
Currently, ICP Storage Manager is not supported on FreeBSD. To create and manage
arrays, use the
ICP RAID Configuration
utility. See
page 62
for more information.
ICP Storage Manager is a full-featured software application that helps you build a storage space
for your online data, using ICP RAID controllers and disk drives.
With ICP Storage Manager, you can group disk drives into logical drives and build in
redundancy to protect your data and improve system performance.
From a single workstation, you can use ICP Storage Manager to monitor and manage all the
controllers and disk drives in your storage space, including DAS and NAS.
When ICP Storage Manager is installed on a computer, the
ICP Storage Manager agent
is also
installed automatically. The agent is like a service that keeps your storage space running. It’s
designed to run in the background, without user intervention, and its job is to monitor and
manage system health, event notifications, task schedules, and other on-going processes on
that system. It sends notices when tasks are completed successfully, and sounds an alarm when
errors or failures occur on that system.
The agent uses less memory than the full application. If your storage space includes systems
that won’t be connected to monitors (and therefore won’t require the user interface), you can
choose to run the
agent only
on those systems instead of the full application. For more
information, refer to the ICP Storage Manager online Help, or to the
ICP Storage Manager
User’s Guide
on the ICP Storage Manager Installation CD.
Installing ICP Storage Manager
ICP Storage Manager is included on the ICP Storage Manager Installation CD. For installation
instructions, refer to the
ICP Storage Manager User’s Guide
, also included on the ICP Storage
Manager Installation CD.
About the Adaptec RAID Controller Configuration Utility
The Adaptec RAID Controller Configuration (ARCCONF) is a command line utility that you
can use to perform some basic array and configuration management functions.
With ARCCONF, you can:
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Create and delete logical drives
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Modify and copy configuration settings
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Recover from disk drive failures and troubleshoot
ARCCONF and the
Command Line Interface (CLI) User’s Guide
, which describes how to use
ARCCONF, are included on the ICP Storage Manager Installation CD.
Note:
ICP recommends that only advanced users familiar with command line interfaces use
ARCCONF. Currently, ARCCONF is not supported on FreeBSD. To create and manage arrays, use
the
ICP RAID Configuration
utility. See
page 62
for more information.