Chapter 11: Monitoring Your Storage Space ●100
Monitoring Options
Adaptec Storage Manager provides many ways t o monitor the status of
your storage space:
●Event Viewer—The main window of Adaptec Storage Manager
includes an Event Viewer that provides at-a-glance status
information about activity occurring in your storage space. (See
page 101.)
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Status Icons
—Thr ee basi c icons (info rmation, warning, and error)
appear in the Ev ent V iew er and in the main Adaptec Storage M anager
window t o help you quickly identify problems. (See page 102.)
●Notification Manager and Email Notification Manager—
Notification utilities help you monitor these activities on local and
remote systems (see page 103 and page 111):
●Progress of scheduled tasks, such as logical drive verifications.
●Changes in the status of the physical c o mponents of y our st orage
space, such as disk drives.
●Changes to the local system, such as the expansion of a logical
drive expansion or the creation of a hot spare.
●Audible Alarm—A series of beeps sounds whenever a serious event
occurs on your storage space. (See page 121.)
●Properties Button—You can check the status of any component in
your storage space by using the Pro perties button. (See page 122.)