You can identify the hardware in the server because the light associated with the hardware you selected is blinking.
The ServeRAID Manager sends a command to the firmware to start blinking one or more physical drive lights, depending on the following:
When you select this action for an icon in the Main Tree, the ServeRAID Manager makes the hardware light associated with the selected icon blink.
Depending on what you click in the Main Tree view, you can identify:
You can make only one selection at a time. The hardware will continue blinking until you click OK in the message window.
Identify works only on controllers with a SAF-TE processor and the appropriate firmware. The processor uses a SCSI ID; therefore, it displays in the Main Tree as the following:
Enclosure
If a drive light or a series of drive lights do not blink, it is because all or part of the subsystem is not controlled by a SAF-TE processor.
For example, if SCSI channel 1 has a SAF-TE processor, but SCSI channel 3 does not, and you select to identify all physical drives, only SCSI channel 1 will blink.
Identify is particularly useful for enclosure managers, such as the Netfinity® EXP15. You can use Identify to clarify which drives in the enclosure you need to work with, before you pull them out of the enclosure.
If a SAF-TE processor is present and the controller supports drive identification, then you can identify the components by doing the following.
Right-click: | To identify... |
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All physical drives on the controller |
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All physical drives in all arrays |
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All physical drives in all logical drives |
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All physical drives |
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All hot-spare drives |
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All physical drives in the selected array |
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All physical drives in the selected logical drive |
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All physical drives in the selected logical drives |
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The selected physical drive. |
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All physical drives in the selected array |
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All physical drives on the selected channel |