1. Overview

1.1Web-based Promise Array Management Professional

Web-based Promise Array Management Professional (hereafter abbreviated for WebPAM PRO) is a Web-based application that locally or remotely manages N8103-105 Disk Array Controller provided by Promise.

WebPAM PRO only supports Mozilla Firefox 1.5 or later (when monitoring from the Linux environment) and Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) 6.0 or later (when monitoring from the Windows environment) as its browser. After installing WebPAM PRO, the following features become available in the system.

„Creating or deleting the following logical arrays on the graphical operation screen of the browser

–RAID0 (data striping with one or more hard disk drives)

–RAID1 (data mirroring with two hard disk drives)

–RAID5 (data striping with parity with more than two hard disk drives)

–RAID1 spanning (same as RAID10. Data mirroring and striping with four hard disk drives)

„Checking consistency among logical drives (redundancy check)

„Checking media error in disks (media patrol)

„Auto-recovering degraded logical drives if entered into the state (rebuild)

To manage N8103-105 remotely from the management computer, WebPAM PRO must be installed in the machine to which N8103-105 is connected. These two computers must be set to allow communication with each other via TCP/IP. HTTPS or SSL is used for communication via TCP/IP in order to endure security and encrypt transfer data.

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