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4.2 RED HAT ENTERPRISE/CENTOS, FEDORA CORE, OPEN SUSE – INSTALLING THE WEB-
BASED MANAGEMENT UTILITY ................................................................................................... 29
4.3 DEBIAN/UBUNTU LINUX DISTRIBUTIONS – INSTALLING THE WEB-BASED
MANAGEMENT UTILITY............................................................................................................... 31
4.4 LINUX DISTRIBUTIONS – COMMAND LINE INTERFACE (CLI)......................................... 31
4.5 INSTALLING THE WEB GUI (V1.5) - WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEMS (2000, XP, 2003,
VISTA, 2008, WINDOWS 7)........................................................................................................... 32
4.6 STARTING THE WEB GUI................................................................................................... 37
4.7 WEB GUI – ICON DEFINITIONS ......................................................................................... 38
4.8 WEB GUI - CONFIGURING AN ARRAY............................................................................... 39
4.8.1 INITIALIZING A NEW HARD DRIVE ..................................................................................... 39
4.8.2 CREATE AN ARRAY ........................................................................................................... 40
4.9 WEB GUI - CONFIGURING SPARE DISKS .......................................................................... 43
4.9.1 TO ASSIGN A SPARE DISK: ................................................................................................. 44
4.10 WEB GUI - RECOVERING AN ARRAY .............................................................................. 46
4.10.1 TO REBUILD AN ARRAY: .................................................................................................. 46
4.11 WEB GUI - MAINTAINING RAID ARRAYS...................................................................... 48
4.11.1 SCHEDULING TASKS:....................................................................................................... 48
4.11.2 REMOVING TASKS ........................................................................................................... 49
4.11.3 SHI – STORAGE HEALTH INSPECTOR .............................................................................. 49
4.12 WEB GUI - SAFEGUARDING YOUR ARRAY ..................................................................... 50
4.12.1 AUTOMATIC RAID REBUILDING..................................................................................... 51
4.13 WEB GUI - EVENT NOTIFICATION .................................................................................. 52
4.13.1 CONFIGURING SMTP (E-MAIL) NOTIFICATION............................................................... 53
4.14 WEB GUI - ADVANCED RAID FUNCTIONS (WINDOWS VSS, OCE/ORLM)................ 54
4.14.1 VSS – VARIABLE SECTOR SIZE....................................................................................... 54
4.14.2 ONLINE CAPACITY EXPANSION AND RAID LEVEL MIGRATION (OCE/ORLM) ............ 59
5 MAC OS X DRIVER AND WEB-BASED RAID MANAGEMENT UTILITY.............. 63
5.1 MAC OS X DRIVER AND RAID MANAGEMENT INSTALLATION...................................... 63