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Monitoring and Maintenance
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Controller
The Controller deals with creating new Arrays, reading events from the
memory buffer, setting cache and performance options. Array creation is
covered in the Arrays section of this chapter.
Memory Buffer Events
The Controller’s Memory Buffer records all the events that
happen on the RAID, classified as Errors, Warnings and
Information. These are very useful for diagnosing and
solving problems on your system.
To see the Event Log, right-click on the Controller icon
in Tree View and select Read Events from the popup menu
(right).
Figure 5-12. The Event Viewer.
In the Event Viewer, you can view the events, make a permanent record by
saving them to a file, and clear the events from the Viewer. You can also
clear the events using the popup menu in Tree View.
Note that the collecting and reporting of these Events is independent from
the Alert Notification preferences set in the Message Agent.