Chapter 9: Monitoring Status and Activity
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Monitoring Options
Adaptec Storage Manager provides many ways to monitor the status of your storage space:
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Event Log
—The main window of Adaptec Storage Manager features an event log that
provides at-a-glance status information about activity occurring in your storage space.
(See the following section.)
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Event Status Icons
—Three basic icons (information, warning, and error) appear in the
event log and in the main Adaptec Storage Manager window to help you quickly identify
problems. (See
page 104
.)
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Enclosure Status Icons
—If your storage space includes an enclosure with an enclosure
management device, three icons appear in the Physical Devices View to help you monitor
temperature, fan, and power module status. (See
page 105
.)
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Notifications
—You can set Adaptec Storage Manager to broadcast status notifications in
your choice of format to help you monitor these activities on local and remote systems (see
pages
106
–
117
):
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Progress of scheduled tasks, such as logical drive verifications.
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Changes in the status of the physical components of your storage space, such as disk drives.
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Changes to the local system, such as the expansion of a logical drive or the creation of
a hot spare.
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Statistics Logging
—You can set Adaptec Storage Manager to collect I/O and usage
statistics for the RAID controllers in your system and periodically “call home” to send the
data to Adaptec or other contacts for analysis. (See
page 119
.)
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Properties Button
—You can check the status of any component in your storage space by
using the Properties button. (See
Viewing Component Properties
on page 87
.)
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Audible Alarm
—A series of beeps sounds whenever a serious event occurs on your storage
space. (See
Maintaining Physical Devices
on page 86
.)
Checking Status from the Main Window
From your local system, you can see status information and messages about the activity (or
events
) occurring in your storage space by looking at the
event log
and status icons in the main
window of Adaptec Storage Manager. (You can also view all events for a system in its operating
system event log—see
page 118
.) You can also monitor any enclosure with an enclosure
management device from the main window.
Viewing Activity and Status in the Event Log
The event log lists activity occurring in your storage space, with the most recent event listed at
the top. Status is indicated by icons (see
page 104
) in the left-hand column, as shown in the
figure on
page 104
.
Double-click any event to open the Configuration Event Detail window to see more
information in an easier-to-read format. Use the up and down arrows to view previous or
following events.
