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WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION

6. Web Browser-based Conﬁguration

Before using the McRAID ﬁrmware-based browser utility, do the initial

setup and installation of this product. If you need to boot up the op-

erating system from a RAID volume set, you must ﬁrst create a RAID

volume by using McBIOS RAID Manager. Please refer to section 3.3

Using Quick Volume /Raid Setup Conﬁguration for information on

creating this initial volume set.

The McRAID manager is ﬁrmware-based utility, which utilizes the

browser installed on your operating system. The McRAID Manager

program is an HTML-based application, which utilizes the browser (IE,

Netscape and Mozilla etc) installed on your monitor station. It allows

user through web browser to create and modify RAID set, volume set,

and monitor SATA RAID Controller status. Use this utility to:

• Create raid set

• Expand raid set

• Deﬁne volume set

• Add physical drive

• Modify volume set

• Modify RAID level/stripe size

• Deﬁne pass-through disk drives

• Modify system function

• Update ﬁrmware

• Designate drives as hot spares

6.1 Start-up McRAID Manager for Local Ad-

ministration

With McRAID Storage Manager, you can Local manage a system

containing a SATA RAID controller that has Windows or Linux and

a supported browser.

A locally managed system requires all of the following compo-

nents:

• A supported Web browser, which should already be installed on

the system.

• Installing an ArcHttp proxy server on the SATA RAID system.