User`s guide

Chapter 9: Managing Your Storage Space ● 62
About Adaptec Storage Manager
Note: Currently, Adaptec Storage Manager is not supported on FreeBSD. To create and
manage arrays, use the
ARC utility. See page 63 for more information.
Adaptec Storage Manager is a full-featured software application that helps you build a storage
space for your online data, using Adaptec RAID controllers and disk drives.
With Adaptec Storage Manager, you can group disk drives into logical drives and build in
redundancy to protect your data and improve system performance.
From a single workstation, you can use Adaptec Storage Manager to monitor and manage all
the controllers and disk drives in your storage space, including DAS and NAS.
When Adaptec Storage Manager is installed on a computer, the Adaptec Storage Manager agent
is also installed automatically. The agent is like a service that keeps your storage space running.
It’s designed to run in the background, without user intervention, and its job is to monitor and
manage system health, event notifications, task schedules, and other on-going processes on
that system. It sends notices when tasks are completed successfully, and sounds an alarm when
errors or failures occur on that system.
The agent uses less memory than the full application. If your storage space includes systems
that won’t be connected to monitors (and therefore won’t require the user interface), you can
choose to run the agent only on those systems instead of the full application. For more
information, refer to the Adaptec Storage Manager online Help, or to the Adaptec Storage
Manager User’s Guide
f or Internal RAID Storage on the Adaptec Storage Manager Installation
CD.
Installing Adaptec Storage Manager
Adaptec Storage Manager is included on the Adaptec Storage Manager Installation CD. For
installation instructions, refer to the Adaptec Storage Manager User’s Guide
f or Internal RAID
Storage , also included on the Adaptec Storage Manager Installation CD.
About the Adaptec RAID Controller Configuration Utility
The Adaptec RAID Controller Configuration (ARCCONF) is a command line utility that you
can use to perform some basic array and configuration management functions.
With ARCCONF, you can:
● Create and delete logical drives
● Modify and copy configuration settings
● Recover from disk drive failures and troubleshoot
ARCCONF and the Command Line Interface (CLI)
f or Internal RAID Storage User’s Guide,
which describes how to use ARCCONF, are included on the Adaptec Storage Manager
Installation CD.
Note:
Adaptec recommends that only advanced users familiar with command line interfaces
use ARCCONF. Currently, ARCCONF is not supported on FreeBSD. To create and manage arrays,
use the
ARC utility. See page 63 for more information.