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Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction........................................................................................ 1
PAM Components........................................................................................ 1
How They Work Together ............................................................................ 2
PAM Installation Options.............................................................................. 3
Chapter 2: Installation ......................................................................................... 7
Installation Locations.................................................................................... 7
Operating System Support........................................................................... 9
Network Requirements............................................................................... 10
Installation Procedure ................................................................................ 10
PAM Installation ......................................................................................... 10
Chapter 3: Initial Setup...................................................................................... 15
Launch PAM............................................................................................... 15
Local Agent Log-in ..................................................................................... 17
Remote PAM Log-in................................................................................... 18
Create a New User..................................................................................... 20
Create an Array.......................................................................................... 22
Setup Alert Notification............................................................................... 24
Add User to Recipient List.......................................................................... 26
Specify Alert Notification Events ................................................................ 27
Chapter 4: PAM User Interface ......................................................................... 29
Tree View................................................................................................... 30
Tree View and Component Specific Menus ............................................... 32
Object View................................................................................................ 33
Information View ........................................................................................ 34
Status Bar .................................................................................................. 34
Pulldown Menus......................................................................................... 35
Toolbar....................................................................................................... 38
Popup Menus............................................................................................. 39
Chapter 5: RAID Monitoring and Maintenance with PAM.................................. 43
Remote PAM.............................................................................................. 43
Create a RAID Server......................................................................... 43
Log-in to RAID PC .............................................................................. 45
Log-out of RAID PC ............................................................................ 45
Disconnect from RAID Server............................................................. 45
Future Connections to RAID Server.................................................... 46
Message Server IP Address Change.................................................. 47
Local PAM.................................................................................................. 49
Log-in.................................................................................................. 49
Log-out................................................................................................ 49