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Introduction 5
RemotaSi l o Us er’ s Guide - Rev. B00 Kingst on Technology Company
Introduction
RemotaSilo
™
is a factory-installed option for Kingston’s Data Silo
DS500 9-bay rack mount or tower expansion chassis. The RemotaSilo
upgrade consists of an additional circuit board installed into the DS500
chassis, a 6’ asynchronous serial cable, and remote monitoring
software for a PC running either Microsoft Windows 95
®
or Windows
NT
®
4.0 operating systems.
The RemotaSilo upgrade allows remote monitoring and control of up to
16 DS500 chassis units and their installed hard drives, tape drives, CD-
ROM and CD-R drives, or other SCSI devices. The RemotaSilo is
designed to work with RAID controllers from the leading manufacturers.
CMD
®
CRD-5500 (all configurations), and Mylex
®
DAC960S RAID
controllers are currently supported. RemotaSilo is capable of monitoring
system configurations and chassis environmental parameters, such as:
power supply voltages, ambient temperature and cooling fan activity.
With a compatible, installed RAID controller, RemotaSilo also monitors
all active drives supported by the controller for drive failures.
RAID
SERVER
DS500 T OWER
WITH
REMO TASILO
HOST PC
SERIAL CABLE
SCSI CABLE
ETHERNET CABLE
CONNECT UP TO 16
REMOTASILO CHASSIS
0807
Figure 1: RemotaSilo Configuration