Software Support

EMM Properties
Fan Properties
Power Supply Properties
Temperature Probe Properties And Tasks
Virtual Disk Properties And Tasks
Alerts Or Events
Storage activity generates alerts or events that are displayed in the Alert Log. Some alerts indicate normal activity and
are displayed for informational purposes only. Other alerts indicate abnormal activity which must be addressed
immediately. For more information about alerts and their corrective actions, see the
Server Administrator Messages
Reference Guide
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Monitoring Disk Reliability On RAID Controllers
Storage Management supports Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) on physical disks that are
SMART-enabled.
SMART performs predictive failure analysis on each disk and sends alerts if a disk failure is predicted. The RAID
controllers check physical disks for failure predictions and, if found, pass this information to Storage Management.
Storage Management immediately displays an alert icon on the disk. Storage Management also sends an alert to the
Alert Log and the Microsoft Windows application log.
NOTE: You may not receive SMART alerts when the I/O of a controller is paused.
Using Alarms To Detect Failures
Certain storage components have alarms which when enabled, alert you when the component fails.
Related Links
Enabling The Enclosure Alarm
Enabling The Controller Alarm
Using Enclosure Temperature Probes
Physical disk enclosures have temperature probes that warn you when the enclosure has exceeded an acceptable
temperature range.
Related Links
SMART Thermal Shutdown
Setting The Temperature Probe Values
Rescanning To Update Storage Configuration Changes
The Rescan task scans the storage device attached to the connectors on the controller (channels or ports) to verify the
currently connected devices or to recognize devices that have been added to or removed from the connectors. When
you rescan a controller object, object, all storage devices attached to the controller are rescanned. Performing a rescan
causes the controller to recognize changes in the storage configuration, such as adding or removing physical disks from
a virtual disk or changing a RAID level.
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