Areca ARC-1231ML/1261ML/1280ML, ARC-1110 manual Summary of the installation, McRAID Storage Manager

HARDWARE INSTALLATION

Summary of the installation

The flow chart below describes the installation procedures for SATA RAID controller. These procedures include hardware installa- tion, the creation and configuration of a RAID volume through the McBIOS, OS installation and installation of SATA RAID controller software.

The software components configure and monitor the SATA RAID controller via ArcHttp Proxy Server.

Configuration Utility	Operating System supported
McBIOS RAID Manager	OS-Independent
McRAID Storage Manager	Windows 2000/XP/2003, Linux, Free-
(Via Archttp proxy server)	BSD, NetWare, UnixWare, Solaris and
	Mac
SAP Monitor (Single Admin portal to	Windows 2000/XP/2003
scan for multiple RAID units in the net-
work, Via ArcHttp proxy server)
SNMP Manager Console Integration	Windows 2000/XP/2003, Linux and
	FreeBSD

McRAID Storage Manager

Before launching the firmware-embedded web server, McRAID stor- age manager, you can to install the ArcHttp proxy server on your server system or through on-board Lan-port (if equipped). If you need additional information about installation and start-up of this function, see the McRAID Storage Manager section in Chapter 6.

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