When you click Identify for a tree object, the ServeRAID Manager makes the hardware light associated with the selected tree object flash.
Depending on what you clicked in the tree, you can identify the following:
You can make only one selection at a time. The hardware will continue flashing until you click OK in the message window.
Identify works only on controllers with a SAF-TE processor and the appropriate firmware. The processor uses a SCSI ID; therefore, it is displayed in the tree as the following:
Enclosure
If a device light or a series of device lights do not flash, it is because all or part of the subsystem is not controlled by a SAF-TE processor.
For example, if SCSI channel 1 has a SAF-TE processor, but SCSI channel 3 does not, and you select to identify all physical drives, only SCSI channel 1 will flash.
Identify is particularly useful for enclosures, such as the Netfinity EXP15. You can use Identify to clarify which drives in the enclosure you need to work with, before you pull them out of the enclosure.
If a SAF-TE processor is present and the controller supports device identification, you can identify the components by doing the following:
Right-click: | To identify... |
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All physical drives on the controller |
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The enclosure itself |
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All physical drives in all arrays |
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All physical drives in all logical drives |
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All physical drives |
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All hot-spare drives |
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All physical drives in the selected array |
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All physical drives in the selected spanned array |
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All physical drives in the selected logical drive |
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All physical drives in the selected logical drives |
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All physical drives in the selected logical drives |
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The selected physical drive. |
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All physical drives in the selected array |
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All physical drives in the selected array |
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All physical drives on the selected channel |
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