Promise Technology Version 4.4 user manual

Contents

Main Page Contents Page Chapter 1: Introduction PAM Components How They Work Together PAM Installation Options Page Page Page Chapter 2: Installation Installation Locations Monitoring Utility Promise Array Management Figure 4. Networked RAID has many installation options. 8 Message Server Message Agent Operating System Support Network Requirements Pre-Installation Procedure PAM Installation Page Page Page Page Chapter 3: Initial Setup Launch PAM Local PAM Log-in Local PAM Log-out Remote PAM Log-in Remote PAM Log-out Disconnect from a Message Server Logout of RAID PC Remote PAM Future Log-ins PAM User Interface Create a New User Create an Array Page Page Setup Email Alert Notification Add a User to the Recipient List Specify Alert Notification Events Page Chapter 4: PAM User Interface Tree View Local PAM Remote PAM Tree View and Component Specific Menus Object View Information View Status Bar Pulldown Menus Dynamic Menus Main Menu My Console Menu Server Menu RAID Machine Menu RAID System Menu Exit PAM Maintenance Menu View Menu Connection Menu (Remote PAM only) Preference Menu Help Menu Toolbar Popup Menus My Console Icon Message Server Icon RAID Machine Icon Page Array Icon User Management Icon User Icon Page Chapter 5: RAID Monitoring and Maintenance with PAM Launch PAM Local PAM Log-in Log-out Remote PAM Log-in Create a RAID Server Delete a RAID Server Disconnect from a Message Server Logout of RAID PC Future Log-ins Page Manage Users Create a New User Delete a User Change Password Change User Rights Alert Notification Add a User to the Recipient List Delete a User from the Recipient List Specify Alert Notification Events Page Controller View Event Log Read Bad Sector Table Controller Options System Information Controller Cache Disk Parameters Rebuild Setting PCI Bus Utilization Maintenance Error Handling Inconsistency Error Handling Arrays Create an Array Page Page Synchronize an Array Scheduled Synchronization On Demand Synchronization Synchronization Settings Stop, Pause, Continue Expand / Convert an Array Expansion Page Page Conversion Page Page Page Array Critical Page Rebuild an Array Automatic Rebuild Manual Rebuild Page Rebuild Settings Error Handling Stop, Pause, Continue Array Offline Delete Array Page Appendix A: RAID Concepts Striping (RAID 0) Disk Drives Data Stripe Mirroring (RAID 1) Disk Drives Data Mirror Striping / Mirroring (RAID 0+1) Disk Drives Data Mirro r Data Stripe About Dual Data Redundancy Block and Parity Striping (RAID 5) Disk Drives Distributed Parity Data Blocks JBOD - Single Drive Disk Drive Page Appendix B: Partition and Format Page Page Page Appendix C: Networking Issues IP Address DHCP Issues Appendix D: Technical Support Technical Support Services