Promise Technology EX8650A, EX4650 WebPAM PRO Management Software, Operating System Support

Chapter 1: Introduction

WebPAM PRO Management Software

The Web-Based Promise Array Management—Professional (WebPAM PRO) software offers local and remote management and monitoring of all SuperTrak logical drives that exist anywhere on a network. Browser-based GUI provides email notification of all major events or alarms, memory cache management, drive event logging, logical drive maintenance, rebuild, and access to all components in the RAID configuration (controller, physical drives, disk arrays, logical drives, physical drives, and enclosure).

For information on using WebPAM PRO, see “Chapter 5: Management with WebPAM PRO” on page 83.

Operating System Support

On the Host PC where you install the SuperTrak controller and WebPAM PRO, Promise Technology recommends:

•Windows Vista (32 or 64 bit)

•Windows Server 2003 SP1 or SP2 (32 or 64 bit)

•Windows XP Professional SP2 (32 or 64 bit)

•Windows 2000 SP4 (32 bit)

•Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.4, 4.5, 5.0, 5.1

•SuSE 10.1, 10.2; SLES 10, 10 SP1

•Miracle Linux 4 SP2

•Fedora Core 6, 7

•Asianux 3

On monitored systems, SuperTrak controller also supports:

•FreeBSD 6.1, 6.2

•VMware ESX 3.0.1, 3.0.2

These Operating Systems support SuperTrak but not WebPAM PRO. You must install WebPAM PRO on a different PC and monitor the SuperTrak over a network.

Browser Support

On the Host PC where you install the SuperTrak controller and WebPAM PRO, you must have one of the following browsers:

•Internet Explorer

•Firefox

•Netscape Navigator

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