ICP GDT6618RD, Addendum

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C. The Program ICPCON
ICP RAID Console (ICPCON) is an extremely helpful and flexible setup and diagnosis tool
for the configuration, monitoring, maintenance and tuning of mass storage subsystems
which are based on one or more ICP Controllers. Different to the
ICP RAID Navigator (a
GUI-style application for Windows 9x/NT/2000), ICPCON's user interface is character-
oriented and available for all operating systems. (Information on the ICP RAID Navigator
can be found in a separate chapter of this User's Manual.). In addition to that ICPCON is
also part of the ICP Controller’s Flash-RAM and can be loaded at system boot level by
pressing <CTRL><G>.
Some of the key features of ICPCON:
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ICPCON includes both, diagnosis and configuration functions
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ICPCON is available as both, an executable program under various operating sys-
tems, and rom-resident program loadable with <CTRL>-<G> at system boot level
(i.e., without any operating system)
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Host Drives can be setup and configured under normal operation
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Online Capacity Expansion of existing Disk Arrays
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Enhanced repair functions for Disk Arrays with failed drives
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Monitoring functions indicate the performance of the various components, Cache
statistics
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Available for MSDOS, NetWare 3.x/4.x/5.x, Windows 9x, Windows NT, Windows 2000,
Linux, SCO Unix
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Loadable locally (on the server) or remotely from an authorized workstation (support
of various protocols); NetBIOS, IPX/SPX, TCP/IP.
C.1 Loading ICPCON
As mentioned before, the ICPCON program is available for various operating systems.
It can be used either locally or remotely. This means that all ICP Controllers in a network
can be monitored and serviced from one (or several) workstation(s).
C.1.1 Loading the ICPCON Program Under NetWare
The ICPCON program for NetWare is part of the ICP System CDROM.
ICPCON can be used either under NetWare 3.x, NetWare 4.x, or NetWare 5.x. There are two
different methods of loading ICPCON:
- loading ICPCON on the fileserver
- loading ICPCON on an authorized workstation (remote)
Loading ICPCON on the fileserver. Beforehand, the ICP NetWare driver and the auto-
loading module CTRLTRAN must have been loaded on the fileserver.
LOAD ICPCON ENTER
on the fileserver.