Use this window to view information about local and remote storage enclosures attached to your system. Using the Server Administrator Storage Management Service, you can view both physical and logical objects from the Array Manager managed system. Management of storage devices requires Array Manager.
Structure of Storage Tasks and Required User Levels
System Tree Selection | Tab | Sub-tab | User Privileges | |
View | Manage | |||
Storage | Properties | Health | U, P, A | NA |
Diagnostics | U, P, A | NA | ||
Array Subsystems | Properties | Array Subsystems | U, P, A | NA |
OS Disks | Properties | OS Disks | U, P, A | NA |
Volumes | Properties | Volumes | U, P, A | NA |
U=User; P=Power User; A=Administrator; NA=Not Applicable. For more details on user privilege levels, see "Privilege Levels in the Server Administrator GUI."
Use this window to view a snapshot of the status for the high level components of your storage components: Array Subsystems, Operating System Disks, and Volumes.
Status
Status displays information about storage event types. The major event types are Normal, Warning, Failure, and Unknown. See "Event Types and Component Health." Status is always a snapshot of a component's functioning at a given point in time, the time being the time that the request for status was made.
Icons that display for storage event type are as follows:
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Normal/OK | |
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Warning/Noncritical | |
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Critical/Nonrecoverable | |
(Blank) | Unknown |
To use the Storage Management Service viewing capabilities fully, your system must meet certain software and hardware requirements.
To view storage enclosures fully, your system must have Array Manager installed. See the Array Manager User's Guide for a complete list of Array Manager installation prerequisites.
Systems equipped with Server Administrator but which do not have Array Manager installed are still able to perform diagnostics for direct-attached storage devices.
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NOTE: Array Manager is installed as part of the managed system software package from the Systems Management CD. |
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NOTE: Array Manager is not supported on Red HatŪ Linux operating systems. |
The managed system must have a supported redundant array of independent disks (RAID) controller installed in order for a user to view the status of local and remote storage attached to the system.
For a list of the supported RAID controllers and for other information about Storage Management Service hardware requirements, see the Server Administrator readme.txt file on the Systems Management CD.
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NOTE: Array Manager is not installed as part of the managed system software package from the Systems Management CD unless the managed system has a supported RAID controller installed. |
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NOTE: Array Manager does not support disk and volume management on systems running Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003. |
Assuming that the system you are managing has Server Administrator and Array Manager installed, you can view storage devices (logical and physical) attached to your system.
Your system can view three types storage objects and their components: Array Subsystems, Operating System (OS) Disks, and Volumes. The plus sign to the left of each object indicates that the object can be expanded to display additional lower-level objects.