Setting user preferences
In the User preferences window, you
can do the following:
Changing
the initialization settings
Initializing a logical drive erases
the first 1024 sectors on the drive and prevents access to any data previously
stored on the drive. The default setting is checked. When
this mode is enabled, the ServeRAID Manager automatically initializes each new
logical drive and prevents access to the manual initialization function.
- Click the Initialization settings
tab.
- Click the check box to enable
or disable automatic initialization of logical drives.
- Click OK.
Attention: If you uncheck
(that is, disable) automatic initialization, the Manager will not initialize
each logical drive (by writing zeros to the first 1024 sectors of the logical
drive) when it is created. You must still initialize all newly defined logical
drives before storing data.
Specifying
remote access settings
Note: These settings are not
available in Startable-CD mode or when the ServeRAID Manager is a plug-in to
another program.
If you want to run the ServeRAID
Manager in local-only mode:
- Click the Remote access settings
note tab.
- Check the Local only box.
If you click this option, the port number entry field will gray out.
- Click OK.
- Restart the Manager for this setting
to take effect.
The next time you start the Manager,
TCP/IP networking will be disabled. In local-only mode, you cannot monitor any
remote systems and no remote systems can monitor your system.
If you want to run the ServeRAID
Manager in networking mode:
- Click the Remote access settings
note tab.
- If the Local only box is
checked, uncheck it.
- If you have a conflict with the
default port number, type a new port number in the entry field. The default
port number is 34571.
- Click OK. The
ServeRAID Manager stores the port number in a file.
- Restart the Manager for this setting
to take effect.
Changing
the alarm settings
All Warning and Error events cause
an audible alarm to sound every five minutes, notifying you of the event. You
can adjust the alarm settings with the following steps.
- Click the Alarm settings
note tab.
- Click the check box to enable
or disable the repeating alarm.
Note: If you disable the alarm, you will not hear an audible alarm
when you receive problem events.
- If you have enabled the alarm,
you can adjust the time interval (in seconds) you want between each alarm.
The default is 300 seconds (that is, 5 minutes).
- If you have enabled the alarm,
you can adjust the length of time (in beeps) you want the alarm to continue.
The default is 3 beeps.
- Click OK.
- Restart the Manager for these
settings to take effect.