Mylex Disk Array controller Software Kit 2.01, Installation Manual And User'S Manual

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Disk Array Monitor (DACMON) Utility for NetWare 4.11/4.2 and 5.0
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Message Log
An area, shown in red on a color monitor, that displays the controller
activities with time of an event (such as a standby replacement or a rebuild
state). The message is also logged into a reference file named dac01log.
Device Status
Displays the status of all the possible SCSI devices in the system by means
of a letter or symbol code:
– hyphen indicates that no SCSI device is configured at that address
D letter D indicates a Dead device
★
a steady star symbol indicates that a device has encountered no
errors since the beginning of the session
✪
a blinking star indicates drive errors are encountered
S letter S represents a standby device
C letter C represents a CD-ROM drive
T letter T represents a tape drive
O letter O represents other types of devices
The monitor utility keeps track of four types of errors: parity errors, hard
errors, soft errors, and miscellaneous errors.
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Note
To view the type and number of errors on a particular
device, use the Drive Information option from the
Main Menu of the Dacadm utility.
System Information
An area that contains four information scales for Rebuild Status, Command
Queue status, Controller I/O rate, and controller throughput in Kilobytes per
Second, as described below.
Rebuild Status. Scale that displays the progress of any rebuild process for
all the involved system drives, one by one. When any rebuild is in progress,
the ID of the system drive being rebuilt will be shown to the left of the scale.
The yellow bar on the scale represents the rebuild completed portion of a
given system drive.