Users Guide

There are certain conditions under which the Patrol Read task cannot be run.

To start or stop the Patrol Read Task:

Click Start Patrol Read or Stop Patrol Read.

NOTE: On PERC 9 family and later of hardware controllers, the Stop Patrol Read task displays: Patrol Read Aborted or Manually

Stopped. On controllers prior to PERC 9, the Stop Patrol Read task displays: Patrol Read is Completed.

To exit without starting or stopping the Patrol Read, click Go Back to Previous Page.

Locate Start Stop Patrol Read In Storage Management

1 In the Server Administrator window, under the system tree, expand Storage to display the controller objects.

2 Select a controller object.

3 Click Information/Conguration on the controller Properties page.

4 Select Start Patrol Read or Stop Patrol Read from the Available Tasks.

5 Click Execute.

You can also locate this task from the Change Controller Properties drop-down menu.

Changing The Controller Properties

NOTE

: This task is not supported on PERC hardware controllers running in HBA mode.

Does my controller support this feature? See Supported Features.

The Change Controller Properties task provides you the option to change multiple controller properties simultaneously. This task is

available only on SAS controllers with rmware version 6.1 and later.

You can change any or all of the following properties using the Change Controller Properties task:

• Rebuild Rate

• BGI Rate

• Check Consistency Rate

• Reconstruct Rate

• Abort check consistency on error

• Revertible Hot Spare

• Load Balance

• Auto replace member on predictive failure

• Redundant path view

• Persistent hot spare

NOTE

: You can also set these properties using the command-line interface. For more information, see the

Server Administrator

Command-Line Interface User’s Guide

To Locate Change Controller Properties In Storage Management

1 In the Server Administrator window, under the system tree, select Storage.

2 On the Storage Dashboard page, select Change Controller Properties from the Available Tasks drop-down menu.

3 Click Execute.

Controllers