User Guide

Altos RAIDWatch User Guide
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• Internet browser access to full program functionality provides worldwide management
capability
• Supports Fibre-to-SATA RAID controllers (Altos S205F)
• Communicates with the controllers over a LAN, the Internet, over the SCSI bus or Fibre channel
• Supports multiple instances of RAID managers over the network, allowing multiple
management sessions with a disk array system
• Illustrates graphically and clearly the relationship between various disk array elements
• At a glance monitoring of the entire disk array status by Altos RAIDWatch and constant
monitoring of multiple systems by Event Monitor
• Supports remote management over the network of an agent running Windows, Solaris, or
Linux via the TCP/IP protocol (future versions will support additional protocols)
• Provides standard disk array functions, including examining and modifying controller
configuration; viewing and monitoring configuration and status of physical drives; scanning in
new physical drives; creating, deleting, and monitoring configuration and status of logical
drives rebuilding logical drives; defining spare drives; creating, deleting, and partitioning
logical volumes; and mapping logical drive and volume partitions to specific host
channels/LUNs
• Enclosure management functions, including defining multiple customized enclosures,
dimensions, and number of drives; monitoring physical drive, power supply, fan, and
temperature status; displaying the relative location of failed physical drives for reduced risk of
replacing the wrong drives
• Supports redundant configuration of important Altos S205F modules to avoid
single-point-of-failure
• RAID controller real-time event notices provide information about various event occurrences,
including the time when an event occurs, event severity, and event description.
• Selectable event notification via SNMP traps by severity levels
• Supports statistics monitoring for displaying I/O throughput and cache hit rate
• Provides innovative, user-configurable event notification functions
• Pager notification via a local modem
• E-Mail notification via the MAPI service of Windows; or built-in SMTP for Unix systems
• Broadcast notification over the LAN:
– Broadcasts user-configurable message along with the event description (Broadcast
notification currently not supported on cross-OS, e.g., Unix to Windows, platforms.)
• Facsimile (Fax) notification via a local Fax/modem: