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WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION
6. Web Browser-based Conguration
Before using the rmware-based browser McRAID storage manager
utility, do the initial setup and installation of this product. If you need
to boot up the operating system from a volume set, you must rst
create a RAID volume by using McBIOS RAID Manager. Please refer to
section 3.3 Using Quick Volume /Raid Setup Conguration for informa-
tion on creating this initial volume set.
The McRAID storage manager is rmware-based utility, which is ac-
cessible via the browser installed on your operating system. The web
browser-based McRAID storage manager is a HTML-based application,
which utilizes the browser (IE, Netscape and Mozilla etc) installed on
your monitor station.
It can be accessed through the In-Band PCI-X/PCIe bus or Out-of-Band
Ethernet port. The In-Band method via archttp proxy server to launch
the web browser-based McRAID storage manager. The rmware-em-
bedded web browser-based McRAID storage manager allows local or
remote to access it from any standard internet browser via a LAN or
WAN with no software or patches required. The rmware contains
SMTP manager monitors all system events and user can select either
single or multiple user notications to be sent via LAN with “Plain Eng-
lish” e-mails. The rmware-embedded SNMP agent allows remote to
monitor events via LAN with no SNMP agent required.
• Create RAID set,
• Expand RAID set,
• Dene volume set,
• Add physical drive ,
• Modify volume set,
• Modify RAID level/stripe size,
• Dene pass-through Disk drives,
• Modify system function,
• Update rmware, and
• Designate drives as hot spares.
6.1 Start-up McRAID Storage Manager
With the McRAID storage manager, you can locally manage a
system containing a SATA RAID controller that has Windows,