User guide

1. Overview
1.1 Web-based Promise Array Management
Professional
Web-based Promise Array Management Professional (hereafter abbreviated for WebPAM PRO)
is a Web-based application that locally or remotely manages the EX4650 Disk Array Controller
provided by Promise.
WebPAM PRO only supports Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) 6.0 or later as its browser. After
installing WebPAM PRO, the following features become available in the system.
 Creating or deleting the following logical arrays on the graphical operation screen of the
browser
– RAID0 (data striping with one or more hard disk drives)
– RAID1 (data mirroring with two hard disk drives)
– RAID5 (data striping with parity with more than two hard disk drives)
– RAID1 spanning (same as RAID10. Data mirroring and striping with four hard disk
drives)
 Checking consistency among logical drives (redundancy check)
 Checking media error in disks (media patrol)
 Auto-recovering degraded logical drives (rebuild)
To manage the EX4650 remotely from the management computer, WebPAM PRO must be
installed in the machine to which the EX4650 is connected. These two computers must be set to
allow communication with each other via TCP/IP. HTTPS or SSL is used for communication via
TCP/IP in order to endure security and encrypt the transferred data.
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