Promise Technology EX8654, EX8658, EX8650 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 107.

Operating System Support

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

•Windows Server 2008 (64 bit) with or without Hyper-V

•Windows Server 2008 (32 bit)

•Windows Vista (32 or 64 bit)

•Windows Server 2003 SP1, SP2; R2 (32 or 64 bit)

•Windows XP Professional SP2, SP3 (32 or 64 bit)

•Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 5.0, 5.1, 5.2 (32 or 64 bit)

•SuSE Open 10.2, 10.3, 11 (32 or 64 bit)

•SLES 10, 10 SP1 (32 or 64 bit)

•Miracle Linux 4 SP2, 5 (32 or 64 bit)

•Fedora Core 6, 7, 8, 9 (32 or 64 bit)

•Open Source Driver for Linux 2.6 kernel (32 or 64 bit)

SuperTrak management on the following OS is supported only via CLI:

•FreeBSD 6.1, 6.2 (32 or 64 bit)

SuperTrak management on the following virtualization platform is supported only via CLI:

•VMware ESX 3.0.2, 3.5 (certification pending)

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