Specifications

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ANSI-standard SMART SCSI protocol and lead to the setting up of the SMART
working Group (SWG). The SMART standard has now been extended to IDE/ATA
drives.
Netfinity Manager and Client Services for Netfinity Manager for OS/2 or Windows
NT support PFA-enabled hard disk drives that conform to the SMART standard.
Note: Support for SMART hard disk drives is available only on systems running
Netfinity Manager or Client Services for Netfinity Manager for OS/2 or Windows
NT.
All disks in the current server range are either PFA or SMART enabled.
5.3.5.10 Process Manager
You can use Process Manager to view detailed information about all processes
that are currently active on any system. You can also stop or start processes and
generate Netfinity Manager alerts if a process starts, stops, or fails to start within
a specified amount of time after system startup.
5.3.5.11 RAID Manager
The RAID Manager service enables you to monitor, manage, and configure an
assortment of Redundant Arrays of Independent Disk (RAID) adapters and arrays
without requiring you to take the RAID system offline to perform maintenance.
Use the RAID Manager to gather data about your system’s RAID array and RAID
adapter, rebuild failing drives, add (or remove) logical drives, perform data
integrity tests, and many other RAID system tasks. This service is available for
both stand-alone and network use by any system that has a supported RAID
adapter.
All IBM RAID adapters are supported by the Netfinity Manager.
5.3.5.12 Remote Session
You can use Remote Session to establish a text-based command-line session
with any remote Netfinity Manager system.
5.3.5.13 Remote System Manager
As system administrator, this will probably be the function you’ll use the most. You
can use Remote System Manager to access and manage any Netfinity Manager
function on any Netfinity Manager system in your network.
Netfinity Remote System Manager organizes all Netfinity Manager remote
systems into groups. Three types of groups are available for your use: system
groups, rack groups, and cluster groups.
1. A
system group is a group of individual, network-attached systems that can be
accessed, managed, and monitored by the Remote System Manager.
2. A
rack group is a group of systems that are installed in an IBM Netfinity Rack.
Rack-mounted systems can be configured to include a rack configuration file.
This file contains information regarding the name of the rack, location of the
system within the rack, name of the rack collection suite that the rack is part
of, and so forth.