Chapter 1: Introduction to Adaptec Storage Manager
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Getting Started Checklist
Part I of this
User’s Guide
includes three special Getting Started chapters to help you install,
start, and begin to use Adaptec Storage Manager.
D
Step 1:
Familiarize yourself with Adaptec Storage Manager and the Adaptec Storage
Manager Agent (see the remainder of this chapter).
D
Step 2:
Install Adaptec Storage Manager on every system that will be part of your storage
spaces (see
page 18
).
D
Step 3:
Build your storage space (see
page 26
).
About Adaptec Storage Manager
Adaptec Storage Manager is a software application that helps you build a storage space for your
online data, using Adaptec RAID controllers, disk drives, and enclosures.
With Adaptec Storage Manager, you can group disk drives into logical drives and build in
redundancy to protect your data and improve system performance. You can also use Adaptec
Storage Manager to monitor and maintain all the controllers, enclosures, and disk drives in
your storage space from a single location.
About the Adaptec Storage Manager Agent
When Adaptec Storage Manager is installed on a system, the
Adaptec 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, tasks 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 described
in this
User’s Guide
), you can choose to run the
Agent only
on those systems instead of the full
application (see
page 14
). You may want to do this if system resources are limited, or if you
want more system resources available for other tasks.
Note:
Linux or Unix users only
—If your storage space includes systems without X-Windows installed or
running, you can run the Agent, even though you can’t run the full Adaptec Storage Manager application.
You can manage and monitor systems running the Agent only by logging into them as remote
systems (see
page 32
).
You can also customize the Agent settings to suit your storage space requirements.
