Users Guide

Introduction 15
Storage Management Service
The Storage Management Service provides enhanced features for managing a system's locally-attached
RAID and non-RAID disk storage.
The Storage Management Service provides the following features:
• Enables you to view the status of local and remote storage attached to a monitored system
• Supports SAS and SCSI, but does not support Fibre Channel
• Allows you to perform controller and enclosure functions for all supported RAID and non-RAID
controllers and enclosures from a single graphical interface or a CLI, without the use of the controller
BIOS utilities
• Protects your data by configuring data redundancy, assigning hot spares, or rebuilding failed drives
Diagnostic Service
NOTE: The Diagnostic Service is not available on modular systems.
The Diagnostic Service provides a suite of diagnostic programs that run locally on your system or are
controlled remotely by a management station connected to the network. The Diagnostic Service
diagnoses problems on individual systems and runs concurrently with all other applications running on
the tested system.
Diagnostics (Dell PowerEdge Service and Diagnostic Utilities CD)
The Dell PowerEdge Diagnostics is a suite of diagnostic programs, or test modules, that run locally on
your system. You can select the appropriate diagnostics tests to run from the Diagnostic Selection tree
containing the hardware that PowerEdge Diagnostics discovers on your system.
Drivers (Dell PowerEdge Service and Diagnostic Utilities CD)
The Extraction Utility enables you to view and create Dell software driver and diagnostic floppy disks.
Change Management (Dell PowerEdge Updates CD)
The Dell PowerEdge Updates CD includes the Server Update Utility (SUU). SUU is a CD-based
application for identifying and applying updates to your system. SUU is a dual-purpose application and is
easy to use. You can use SUU to update your PowerEdge server or to view the updates available for any
system listed in the Repository.
SUU facilitates change management by allowing you to update system components using an application
that compares the version of currently installed components with updated components packaged on a
CD and stored in a Repository. A full session of SUU would typically run an inventory of installed
components and their versions, provide a comparison report between what is installed currently on the
system and what the latest component versions are in the Repository, and let you decide whether to apply
the Dell component System Update Set to update the system or not.