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Monitoring System Status
You should monitor your system regularly to ensure that the controller, disks, and
arrays are working properly. The Disk Array Administrator software lets you monitor
the status several ways:
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Event log (see below)
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Hardware information (see
Displaying Hardware and Configuration
Information
on page 5-5)
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Array status screen (see
Viewing Array Status
on page 4-8)
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Disk status screen (see
Viewing Drive Status
on page 4-13)
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Power On Self-Test (POST) (see
Problems During Bootup
on page 9-4)
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Overall Statistics screen (see
Displaying Overall Statistics
on page 5-11)
Displaying the Event Log
The controller’s event log contains important information about the status of the
controller, disks, and arrays. You should check it regularly to monitor the status of
your system. For more information about specific SCSI disk and channel errors, see
Understanding SCSI Errors
on page 9-9.
Below is a list of some of the key warning and failure events included in the log
during operation:
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Disk detected error
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Disk channel error
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Battery failure
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Drive down
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Power up
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