5-42 Installing and Using Utilities

3.Recovery from a hard disk failure

If a hard disk breaks, the broken disk must be replaced immediately. This section describes alert reports and status shown by the Data Viewer while disks are replaced to restore mirroring.

(1) Detecting problem of a hard disk

See [1. Confirm of hard disk failure] above.

(2) Removing the hard disk

Disconnect the hard disk with the problem. At this time, NEC ESMPRO Agent reports the following alert to manager. And icons related to the hard disk with problem change the state of warning in the data viewer.

Since the hard disk has been removed, the status of the SCSI slot will be “EMPTY.”

TIPS: You can identify the new hard disk by DevicePathID (ex. 10/40/1).

When one hard disk with problem was disconnected, SCSI slot changes the status to "Warning".

[SCSI Slot] [General]

IMPORTANT: The status color of the SCSI slot differs depending on the connection of mirrored hard disks:

If one of the mirrored disks was removed: Warning

If both of the mirrored disks were removed: Gray