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Monitoring Tasks .............................................................................................. 84
Modifying a Task............................................................................................... 85
Deleting a Task .................................................................................................. 85
Disabling the Task Manager ............................................................................. 85
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Maintaining Physical Devices
Viewing Component Properties....................................................................... 88
Blinking a Component...................................................................................... 88
Working with Failed or Failing Disk Drives .................................................... 89
Initializing and Erasing Disk Drives................................................................. 89
Working with Solid State Drives ...................................................................... 91
Working with Controllers ................................................................................ 92
Testing and Silencing System and Enclosure Alarms...................................... 95
Updating the Controller BIOS and Firmware ................................................. 98
Updating the Disk Drive Firmware.................................................................. 99
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Monitoring Status and Activity
Monitoring Options........................................................................................ 104
Checking Status from the Main Window ..................................................... 104
Notifying Users by Event Log Message About Status and Activity .............. 107
Notifying Users by Email About Status and Activity ................................... 112
Notifying Users by SNMP Trap About Status and Activity.......................... 117
Notifying
All
Users About Status and Activity .............................................. 118
Changing an Operating System’s Event Log Setting ..................................... 119
Logging Statistics for Remote Analysis .......................................................... 120
10 Updating and Customizing Adaptec Storage Manager
Updating Adaptec Storage Manager .............................................................. 126
Adding Enhanced Features ............................................................................ 126
Setting Preferences and Changing Views....................................................... 126
Managing Remote Systems............................................................................. 128
Working with Display Groups ....................................................................... 132
11 Solving Problems
General Troubleshooting Tips ....................................................................... 137
Identifying a Failed or Failing Component ................................................... 137
Stopping the Creation of a New Logical Drive.............................................. 138
Recovering from a Disk Drive Failure ........................................................... 138
Rebuilding Logical Drives............................................................................... 141
Solving Notification Problems ....................................................................... 142
Creating a Support Archive File ..................................................................... 142
Understanding Error and Warning Messages ............................................... 143
