User Guide

Preface
xi
Conventions
This Getting Started guide uses several conventions to help explain how to use the Altos RAIDWatch
management program.
Reference Information
The following information may be useful in creating and operating a RAID controller and in using
Altos RAIDWatch and Altos RAIDWatch Manager.
•
Java Runtime Environment
JRE (Java Runtime Environment) is a shareware product from Sun/Solaris. Two websites that
may be of use relative to JRE are:
The main Java website URL
The JRE download website URL l
•
Altos RAIDWatch Updates & Upgrading
Please contact your supplier for Altos RAIDWatch agent and Altos RAIDWatch Manager
updates.
•
Uninstalling Altos RAIDWatch
Convention Definition
Controller RAID array controllers;
Altos RAIDWatch The entire program and all of its modules.
Altos RAIDWatch
Manager
Refers only to the management interface, not to any of the other parts of
the software.
Primary Agent The element of the software which permits one station to manage
multiple RAID systems. The Primary Agent gets information from and
sends commands to one or multiple Secondary Agents.
Secondary Agent The part of the software which allows the local RAID controller to talk to
the Primary Agent (and thus to Altos RAIDWatch Manager). A Secondary
Agent communicates with the RAID controller via SCSI bus or Fibre
channel (using “In-band” technology), or even via an RS-232 serial port.
Secondary Agents are the intermediaries between the Primary Agent and
the RAID controllers.
Event Monitor A software utility that runs separately from Altos RAIDWatch Manager. It
requires agents to communicate between controller and management
station. It also shares with Altos RAIDWatch Manager a part of Java class.
Therefore, Altos RAIDWatch Manager should be installed even if the user
prefers Event Monitor. Hardware and software requirements for
installing the program is the same as those for Altos RAIDWatch.