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You can monitor and control disk mirroring through a control screen in Element Manager.

Under Administration > System Status > Disk mirroring, you can access a screen that allows you to control the mirroring operation from your desktop, as well as display the status of the hard disks. Refer to Table 1 for a list of the fields and a description of their function.

Table 1 Disk mirroring settings

Tab

Field

Functions

Description

 

 

 

 

Settings

Version

Read-only field

Shows the current version of mirroring firmware.

 

 

 

 

 

Operation Mode

Primary Master

Mirror mode is disabled. The Primary disk is the

 

 

 

operating disk.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mirror Master

Mirror mode is disabled. The Mirrored disk is now

 

 

 

the operating disk.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mirror Mode

The system is in Mirror mode.

 

 

 

 

 

Ultra UDMA

Auto

The interface speed to the hard disk is set

 

 

 

automatically. This is the default.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mode

The interface speed to the hard disk is set to a

 

 

 

specific timing.

 

 

 

Note: Changing the speed from auto could

 

 

 

significantly affect system performance.

 

 

 

 

 

Beep Timing

Disable

The failure tone is disabled.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Continuous

The audible tone will beep continuously if a failure

 

 

 

occurs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

XX seconds/minutes

The audible tone will beep for the period chosen if

 

 

Default: BEEP_30Seconds.

a failure occurs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Status

DuplWin Dll version

<current version number>

Shows the version or N/A if no version is found.

 

 

N/A

 

 

 

 

 

 

Primary Master Status

Good, Bad, or N/A

Indicates the current status of the primary hard

 

 

 

disk.

 

 

 

 

 

Mirror Master Status

Good, Bad, or N/A

Indicates the current status of the secondary hard

 

 

 

disk.

 

 

 

 

 

Initialization Status

Started, Finished, Failed,

Indicates current status of the initialization

 

 

Shutdown, or N/A

process.

 

 

 

 

Configuration menu item

Set Buzzer ON

If turned on, you can control the module buzzer

 

 

 

remotely.

 

 

Set Buzzer OFF

If turned off, the module buzzer can only be

 

 

 

controlled from the front of the controller.

 

 

 

Report menu item

Status Screen

Launches a new browser window that displays

 

 

 

mirroring summary. The summary shows which

 

 

 

hard disks are installed, where they are placed,

 

 

 

and which is the active hard disk.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Drive Status

Displays a status bar to indicate process of

 

 

 

mirroring.

 

 

 

 

View

 

Refresh

Use this to update the status screen.

 

 

 

 

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