Reviewing managed system information
The ServeRAIDTM
Manager starts in managed system information mode. From here, you can do the
following:
Tool bar
Add
remote system
Add a remote system to the Main Tree
for monitoring and configuration. This action is disabled in startable-CD mode
and when the ServeRAID Manager is a plug-in
to another program.
Create array
Choose Express or Custom configuration,
if there are ready drives and you have not assigned the maximum number of logical
drives.
Configure the controller for clustering
View and set the clustering parameters
and merge group IDs.
Scan for new or removed ready drives
Identify new drives as ready and
remove ready drives that you have removed from the system.
Silence
repeating alarm
Silence the alarm. All Warning and
Error events cause an audible alarm to sound every five minutes, notifying you
of the event. You can adjust the alarm interval in the User
preference window.
Current
topic
View context-sensitive help for a
panel.
Menu bar
- File ==>
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- Clear configuration event
log
- Clears the current contents
of the event viewer. This option does not clear or delete the event logging
file.
- User preferences
- Opens a window that you can
use to specify the following settings:
- Initialization settings
- Remote access settings
- Alarm settings
- Exit
- Exits the ServeRAID Manager.
- View ==>
-
- Tool bar
- Turns the tool bar on and
off. The default is On (that is, checked).
- Status bar
- Turns the status bar on and
off. The default is On (that is, checked).
- Refresh
- Refreshes the display with
the latest configuration information.
- Remote ==>
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- Add remote system
- Adds
a remote system to the Main Tree for monitoring and configuration.
This action is disabled in startable-CD
mode and when the ServeRAID Manager is a plug-in to another program.
- Remove remote system
- Displays a menu of all the
remote systems currently in your Main Tree. You can select one remote
system to remove at a time. This action is disabled in startable-CD mode
and when the ServeRAID Manager is a plug-in to another program.
- Actions ==>
-
- Display any action that is
valid for the selected Main Tree icon.
-
- Tip: If there are no
valid actions for the object you select, the Actions menu is grayed out.
- Help ==>
-
Current
topic
- View context-sensitive help
for a panel.
- Find
- Finds one or more specified
words in the help system and displays a list of topics that include those
words.
- Index
- Displays the help system
index.
- Contents
- Displays the help system
table of contents. You can use the contents to acquaint yourself with
help system topics.
- About ServeRAID Manager
- Displays the ServeRAID Manager
version number, copyright, and legal information.