Before you begin using the ServeRAID Manager, take some time to review the layout of its screen interface.
There are a number of ways you can work with the ServeRAID Manager interface. You can:
The menu bar provides standard File, View, Actions, and Help menus. In addition to using the mouse, you can use keyboard shortcuts to access the menu bar. Selections from the Actions menu are also available when you right-click an icon in the Main Tree.
Note: No actions from the Actions menu are available during any of the following:
- Rebuild
- Foreground synchronize
- Logical drive migration
- RAID level-5 Enhanced compression or decompression
- FlashCopy with backup option
The tool bar provides quick-path icons for common tasks.
The Main Tree provides an expandable tree view of the systems you are managing. You can perform most of your configuration and maintenance tasks by first selecting the ServeRAID controller, array, logical drive, hot-spare drive, or physical drive objects from this Main Tree.
The Main Tree displays a maximum of the following:
The Main Tree displays a system warning
icon if any controller
in a system has one of the following:
If any system has a warning icon
, the Managed systems icon
also displays its warning icon
.
The Main Panel provides specific object information or configuration instructions. When the ServeRAID Manager is in the Information mode and you select an object from the Main Tree, detailed information about the object appears in this panel. When the Manager is in Configuration mode, the instructions needed to configure your ServeRAID subsystem appear in this panel.
The event viewer provides advisory and progressive-status information and messages for your ServeRAID subsystem. Every event includes:
Note: All Warning and Error events cause an audible alarm to sound, notifying you of the event.
You can double-click an event in the event viewer and the Configuration event detail window opens. This window contains the same information as the event viewer, but in a larger, easier-to-read screen. Some events will have additional details listed in this window.
If the ServeRAID Manager is not in Bootable-CD mode, the Manager appends each event to a logging file, RAIDEVT.LOG. If this file exceeds 200 KB, the manager copies the file to RAIDEVT.OLD and creates a new RAIDEVT.LOG. If there is a RAIDEVT.OLD already, the Manager overwrites it.
The status bar displays the following information from left to right:
Overall Managed systems status icon and text. The icon is the same as the Managed systems icon displayed in the Tree view. The text states whether the ServeRAID Manager has detected problems on any of the systems.
Note: You can drag the vertical bars to the right and left to adjust viewing the status bar information. You might have to adjust the vertical bar to see the overall managed system status text.
The current tree path.
If no action is in progress, this pane is empty.
The progress indicator is labeled with the controller number and logical drive number. If more than one controller is undergoing one of these operations, the selected controller's progress displays in the pane.