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224Chapter 19 System monitoring and troubleshooting

Monitoring RAID disk mirror operational status using Element Manager

Use this procedure to monitor the primary master and mirror master hard disk activity on systems equipped with a RAID configuration. Use Element Manager in this procedure to monitor the RAID disk mirror operation.

Note: You must ensure the system status monitor service is running to monitor primary master and mirror master disk operation and disk mirroring activity.

To monitor RAID disk mirror operational status

1Open Element Manager.

2From the Administration tab, click System Status, and then click Disk Mirroring. The Disk Mirroring screen displays.

3Click on the Status tab

The Disk Mirroring screen displays the operational status of primary master and mirror master disks.

4Confirm that the status for the disk mirroring activity is correct (see Table 81). To produce a status report, refer to “Accessing the RAID status report using Element Manager”.

Table 81 Status field descriptions

Status field	Description
DupliWin.dll Version	Read-only field that displays the RAID software version. The latest load always
	has the latest RAID software.
Primary Master Status	Read-only field that displays the status of the primary master disk (Passed/Failed/
	NA).
	• If the field indicates Passed, the drive is operating normally
	• If the field indicates Failed, check the power and IDE ribbon cable connections
	or replace the faulty hard disk
	• If the field indicates N/A (not available), check the hard disk power and IDE
	ribbon cable connections
Mirror Master Status	Read-only field that displays the status of the mirror master disk (Passed/Failed/
	NA)
	• If the field indicates Passed, the drive is operating normally
	• If the field indicates Failed, check the power and IDE ribbon cable connections
	or replace the failed hard disk
	• If the field indicates N/A (not available), check the hard disk power and IDE
	ribbon cable connections
Rebuild	Read-only field that displays the mirror data rebuild progress (idle/started)

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