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System Setup
Hardware
When the DR ships to a customer’s site and is powered on for the first time, the system still needs to
complete a background initialization (init.) of the RAID. During this background init., the system may
seem sluggish or write slower than expected. This will resolve itself within 24 hours.
Expansion Shelves
The proper boot procedure for the DR appliance is to first power on the DR expansion shelf/shelves
and then connect it to the DR appliance. After connected to the appliance, power on the DR appliance
and ensure the expansion license(s) are available or ready to add.
Initial out of the box setup
This section outlines the various items that must be configured when the DR appliance first powered
on.
Registration
The DR product has the ability to notify administrators of recent updates. Simply register the DR
appliance and ask for updates. As new releases are posted on the web, update notifications will be
emailed alerting the administrator of new upgrades that are available. It is recommended that
administrators enable this option during registration.
Setting up alerts
The DR product has built in monitoring through Dell Open Manage which is installed on the appliance.
All critical software and hardware alerts are sent as alerts via email. All hardware related events are also
sent as a trap over SNMP to the configured monitoring server.
It is highly recommended that alerts are configured on the DR appliance and are sent to a global
distribution list so they can be monitored and resolved quickly.