Installation guide
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Introduction
Storage Management Software Overview
Your Adaptec RAID controller includes the following software tools
to manage your storage subsystem:
■ Storage Manager Pro—The Graphical User Interface (GUI)
through which you interact with the storage subsystem. It
provides an intuitive graphical interface that enables you to do
such things as create and manage RAID arrays, set up security
levels for users and administrators, establish the means of
notifying users of disk failures, etc.
Storage Manager Pro is supported under the following
operating systems:
■ Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 95/98
■ Novell NetWare 4.2; 5.x
■ Red Hat Linux 6.x
■ FreeBSD
In summary, Storage Manager Pro is Adaptec’s primary RAID
management tool. For details, refer to the Adaptec Storage
Manager Pro Software User’s Guide.
Note: You will be prompted to provide a user ID and
password when you start Storage Manager Pro. The default
user ID is administrator, the default password is adaptec. For
details, refer to the Storage Manager Pro User’s Guide.
■ Storage Manager—Older storage management software that
provides the same basic functionality as Storage Manager Pro,
but has the advantage of supporting the following additional
operating systems:
■ Windows Me
■ SuSE Linux 6.4 and 7.0
■ SCO UNIX
Furthermore, Storage Manager provides additional features,
such as DMI agents, that are not yet available in Storage
Manager Pro. Use Storage Manager if you require these
additional operating systems, or if you require a feature that