User`s guide

Chapter 9: Managing Your Storage Space ● 53
About Adaptec Storage Manager
Adaptec Storage Manager is a full-featured software application that helps you build a storage
space for your online data, using Adaptec RAID controllers and disk drives.
With Adaptec Storage Manager, you can group disk drives into logical drives and build in
redundancy to protect your data and improve system performance.
You can also use Adaptec Storage Manager to monitor and manage all the controllers and disk
drives in your storage space from a single location.
When Adaptec Storage Manager is installed on a computer, the Adaptec Storage Manager agent
is also installed automatically. The agent is like a service that keeps your storage space running.
It’s designed to run in the background, without user intervention, and its job is to monitor and
manage system health, event notifications, task schedules, and other on-going processes on
that system. It sends notices when tasks are completed successfully, and sounds an alarm when
errors or failures occur on that system.
The agent uses less memory than the full application. If your storage space includes systems
that won’t be connected to monitors (and therefore won’t require the user interface), you can
choose to run the agent only on those systems instead of the full application. For more
information, refer to the Adaptec Storage Manager User’s Guide or online Help.
Installing Adaptec Storage Manager
Adaptec Storage Manager is included on the Adaptec Storage Manager Installation CD. For
installation instructions, refer to the Adaptec Storage Manager User’s Guide, also included on
the Adaptec Storage Manager Installation CD.
About the Adaptec RAID Controller Configuration Utility
The Adaptec RAID Controller Configuration Utility (ARCCONF) is a command line utility
that you can use to perform some basic array and configuration management functions.
With ARCCONF, you can:
● Create and delete logical drives
● Modify and copy configuration settings
● Recover from disk drive failures and troubleshoot
ARCCONF and the Command Line Interface (CLI) User’s Reference, which describes how to use
ARCCONF, are included on the Adaptec Storage Manager Installation CD.
Note:
Adaptec recommends that only advanced users familiar with command line interfaces
use ARCCONF.