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5.6.9 Configuring MSN Event Notification
The RAIDGuard Central integrates with the MSN service to notify users of system status changes by sending instant
messages. Follow the steps below to configure this function:
1. From the Tool bar in RGC GUI, click the MSN tool button ( or ) to open the MSN Login and
Configure screen.
2. Select the Login tab to enter the MSN account and password to be used by RAIDGuard Central to login to MSN
server and send out messages.
3. Select the Configure tab to set up message recipients and severity level of the event logs to be sent. Up to 3
recipients can be configured.
4. After the MSN account and the recipients are configured properly, RAIDGuard Central will connect to MSN server
and remain online. You may check the icon on the MSN button to see if the RAIDGuard Central is online (Green) or
not (Red). For every 5 seconds, RGC will send out one message to notify the recipients of the latest events. Note that
the messages will carry the events that happened in the past 30 minutes.
* RAIDGuard Central uses TjMSNLib 5.0 as the MSN Messenger client library. TjMSNLib is an MSN Messenger client
library, which is licensed under GPL (General Public License). For more information about TjMSNLib, please visit the
TjMSN website at http://tjmsn.tomjudge.com/.
5.7 VDS Provider
5.7.1 Overview
The RAID controller supports Microsoft Virtual Disk Service (VDS) by supplying a VDS Provider. It allows you to use
VDS-compliant software to manage the RAID systems on Windows platforms.VDS is a key component in Microsoft
Simple SAN Solutions, and has been adopted by many leaders in the storage industry.
VDS is a management interface standard on Microsoft Windows for communication between storage management
software and RAID hardware. You may manage RAID systems from different vendors by VDS-compliant software as long
as VDS providers for the RAID systems are installed.
The architecture of VDS is illustrated as below:
VDS is supported on Windows server 2003 SP-1(VDS1.0), Windows server 2003 R2 (VDS1.1). Microsoft provides both
command-line and GUI tool based on VDS: DiskRAID and Microsoft Storage Manager for SAN. VDS-compliant storage
management software from other vendors is also available. Please see Section G.5 for more information.
You may follow the steps below to build VDS-based management environment.
1. Install your RAID systems and connect them to networks.
Note
RAIDGuard Central leverages TjMSNLib to support MSN notification, and it currently supports
MSN Protocol (MSNP) version 11, and MSN clients version 7.0 or earlier. It does not support
"offline message", so the recipient has to be online to get event notification messages.
Figure 5-39 VDS Provider illustration