Management Menu Options

Table 12-2 displays the options for the Dell Manager Management Menu.

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Option

Description

 

 

Initialize

Select this option to initialize one or more logical drives.

 

 

Objects

Select this option to individually access controllers, logical

 

drives, and physical drives.

 

 

Format

Select this option to low-level format physical drives.

 

 

Rebuild

Select this option to rebuild failed physical drives.

 

 

Check

Select this option to verify redundancy data in logical drives

Consistency

using RAID level 1 or 5. PERC 3 automatically corrects any

 

differences found in the data.

 

 

Reconstruct

Select this option to reconstruct an array.

 

 

Using Dell Manager in Red Hat Linux GUI Mode

On a Red Hat Linux system, for Dell Manager to work correctly in a terminal in GUI Mode, you must:

Set the terminal type to linux.

Set the keyboard mappings to linux.

Perform the procedure in this section if you use konsole, gnome terminal, or xterm.

The linux console mode, which you select from the terminal with the File—

>Linux Console command, works correctly by default. The text mode console (non-GUI) also works correctly by default.

Perform the following steps to prepare the system to use Dell Manager in Red Hat Linux GUI mode:

1Start the Terminal.

2Before you enter dellmgr to start Dell Manager, type the following commands:

TERM=linux Export TERM

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