Setup of Preventive Disk Maintenance
In this section, the preventive disk maintenance (S.M.A.R.T.) is configured.
If the preventive disk maintenance (S.M.A.R.T.) is enabled (by checking Enable on the setting screen), the disk fault monitoring function is enabled to detect possible disk faults. Disabling the preventive disk maintenance disables the disk fault monitoring function.
The table below shows the potential cases in which the setup of the preventive disk maintenance is modified.
IMPORTANT: The disk failure prediction (S.M.A.R.T.) feature is not supported in this server. Use ft server utility to disable this feature.
When a disk is replaced, be sure to change the setting described below.
(Contact your maintenance personnel for changing the setup of the preventive disk maintenance in any case other than above.)
Component | Setup of preventive disk maintenance (S.M.A.R.T.) | |
| Remote | Local |
SCSI disk | – | Executable if the system is operating. |
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| Use this function at disk replacement |
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| Change the setting to "Disable" before removing |
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| disk. |
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| Insert a new disk and, after termination of disk |
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| replacement, change the setting to "Enable." |
Remote: Executable from remote management PC by using NEC ESMPRO Manager
Local: Executable on local server by using ft server utility
Change the setup of the preventive disk maintenance with the ft server utility in the following procedure. NEC ESMPRO Manager cannot set the preventive disk maintenance.
1.Select [Disk Failure Prediction] in the [FTServer] tree.
2.Check the check box of [Enable disk failure prediction [SMART]] (or cancel the check).
3.Click the [Apply] button.
Sample screen of ft server utility
[Preventive Disk Maintenance]