Using Identify to work with your systems

When you click Identify for a tree object, the ServeRAID Manager makes the hardware light associated with the selected tree object flash.

Depending on what you clicked in the tree, you can identify the following:

You can make only one selection at a time. The hardware will continue flashing 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 is displayed in the tree as the following:

Enclosure Enclosure

If a device light or a series of device lights do not flash, 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 flash.

Identify is particularly useful for enclosures, 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 device identification, you can identify the components by doing the following:

Right-click: To identify...
Controller Controller All physical drives on the controller
Enclosure Enclosure The enclosure itself
Arrays Arrays All physical drives in all arrays
Logical drives Logical drives All physical drives in all logical drives
Physical drives Physical drives All physical drives
Hot-spare drives Hot-spare drives All hot-spare drives

Array Array [number]

All physical drives in the selected array

Array Spanned array [number]

All physical drives in the selected spanned array
Logical drive Logical drive [number] All physical drives in the selected logical drive

Logical drives Logical drives in array [number]

All physical drives in the selected logical drives

Logical drives Logical drives in spanned array [number]

All physical drives in the selected logical drives
Physical drive Physical drive [number] The selected physical drive.
Physical drives Physical drives in array [number] All physical drives in the selected array
Physical drives Physical drives in spanned array [number] All physical drives in the selected array
Channel Channel [number] All physical drives on the selected channel

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