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NEC Express5800/120Li User's Guide

1. Disk Defragmenter 4 ACPI Fixed Feature Button Disk Management 4 Direct memory access controller E Ta Services and Applications 4 Generic Bus 4 High Precision Event Timer Intel R 6700 6702PXH I OxAPIC Interrupt Controller 4 0326 3 Intel R 6702PXH PCI Express to PCI Bridge 4 032C Intel R 82801 PCI Bridge 244E 4 Intel R 82801FB LPC Interface Controller 2640 4 Intel R 82801FB FBM PCI Express Root Port 2660 4 Intel R 82801FB FBM SMBus Controller 2664 Intel R 82802 Firmware Hub Device 4 Intel R E 220 E7221 Memory Controller Hub 2588 4 Intel R EF220 E7221 PCI Express Root Port 2589 i ISAPNP Read Data Port 4 Microcode Update Device Microsoft ACPI Compliant System Microsoft System Management BIOS Driver Motherboard resources g Numeric data processor J PCI bus 9 PCI standard PCI to PCI bridge PCI standard PCI to PCI bridge 3 Plug and Play Software Device Enumerator 1 Programmable interrupt controller Standby Hibernation Lock Y System CMOS real time clock J System speaker Y System timer Y Terminal Server Device Redirector lt g amp Universal Serial Bus controllers g fw C ACPIDY32 Computer Management my ae Screen Display Appearing when Standby Hibernation Lock Prevents System from Entering into Standby or Hibernation State Installing Standby Hibernation Lock in a system disables the system to be entered into the standby or hibernation state For example if you sele
2. Graphic View C Drive on Port 1 120 00 GB Assigned LD 1 1 Free 60 00 GB 59 93 GB C Drive on Port2 120 00 GB Assigned LD 1 2 Free 60 00 GB 59 93 GB C Drive on Port3 120 00 GB Assigned LD 1 3 Free 60 00 GB 60 00 GB ERT PE BB iones to Logical Drive 1 BB spare E 56 4 Select the physical drive to be used for expansion Information Settings Drive Mapping Expansion Rebuild Synchronization Initialization Activation Expansion Parameters Expansion Progress RAID 5 x C Drive on Port 4 80 00 GB Free Free 60 00 GB 19 93 GB BB EFA ET BF scigenes BB spare E Invalid The available physical drives are enclosed with black frames The selected physical drive is enclosed with a red frame 5 Click the Start Now button The expansion is started The progress of expansion appears in the Expansion tab of the logical drive Animation showing the expansion is advanced appears in the Tree View 3 Promise Array Manager Microsoft Internet Explorer File Edit view Favorites Tools Help G Bak 9 iz Fh A Search gt Favorites O a B https 127 0 0 1 8443 promise screen jsp PROMISE erty English Z Hide Event Logout TECHNOLOGY INC Promise WebPAM L Administrative Tools 2 User Management amp Host Management Py Utility Configuration 10 0 0 150 F E FastTrak Sx4100 EHG Controller 1 E Physical Drive vies EE Maxtor 6120M Gg Maxtor 6120M
3. lt 2 When the mode is changed click Submit to enable the change IMPORTANT m This option is not for the disk array controller logical drive but for HDDs For the Write Cache Setting for logical drives when the battery is implemented see the description of the Write Cache setting for each logical drive in 3 6 5 Logical Drive It is recommended that the Write Cache enabled is set to Disable If you would like to improve performance be sure to take preventive measures such as the use of uninterruptible power supply system UPS before setting to Enable Media Patrol tab See 3 11 Media Patrol BSL tab The BSL tab allows you to check the BSL Bad Sector List information of each HDD Locate Drive tab This feature is not supported Do not use the feature 3 6 4 Logical Drive View If you select the Logical Drive View icon in the Tree View the outline of the current logical drive appears in the Management Window Logical Drive View Information Create Delete Synchronization Schedule E Logical Drive Overview Assigned Name RAID Level Status Background Activity Capacity PROMISE LD 1 RAID 1 Critical Rebuilding 79 93 GB Information tab Assigned Name Name of logical drive RAID Level RAID level 28 Status Status of this logical drive Functional normal Critical degrading Offline fault Background Activity Background task associated with this logical drive Idle no back
4. 1GB 1000MB IMB 1000bytes Therefore the values displayed in the OS functions and in other applications which are based on 1GB 1024MB IMB 1024bytes are different from those in WebPAM If your server is either of the followings please be sure to read the description of Settings tab of 3 6 3 Physical Drive and change the NCQ Enable option setting if required 110Ej EXPRESSBUILDER Ver4 140x N 110Gc EXPRESSBUILDER Ver4 135x N x any alphabet 2 Installation IMPORTANT Only users authorized as administrators are permitted to install and uninstall WebPAM NOTE You may purchase a system in which WebPAM is installed previously For such a system the installation procedure is not required To install WebPAM use the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER CD ROM provided with your system 2 1 Installing WebPAM Insert the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER CD ROM into the CD ROM drive of your computer Click Software Setup on the Master Control Menu appearing on the screen Then click Web based Promise Array Manager The Select Install Uninstall dialog box appears InstallShield Wizard Setup Type Choose the setup type that best suits your needs Select Install or Uninstall Click Next to Continue C Uninstallation for WebP amp M coca Select Installation for WebPAM and click Next The Select a directory to install dialog box appears If you want to change the directory to install click Browse and follow
5. By Day Start at 0 i 0 i O By Week Stat at O Y 0 Every Wednesday O By Month start at O 0 Monne 1st Example 10 30 hh mm E 4 Set the time at which the synchronization is started The details of the settings are as follows By Day Media Patrol is started at the defined time everyday By Week Media Patrol is started on the defined day of every week By Month Media Patrol is started on the defined date every month 9 Ifthe setting is completed click Schedule After the scheduling Scheduled Successfully appears at the top of the tab The scheduling is completed in the above procedure The scheduled media patrol can be checked by the Schedule tab of the Controller icon See 3 6 1 Controller for details Media patrol is started at the defined time and repeated at the interval entered in step 3 To cancel delete the scheduling click the Schedule tab of Controller click the Select checkbox you want to delete and click Delete NOTE Media patrol can be done for a specific physical drive independently Click the Physical Drive icon in the Tree View and schedule media patrol in the Media Patrol tab 48 3 12 Rebuilding Logical Drive The rebuild can recover redundancy when a single HDD is defected in the RAID level of 1 10 or 5 During rebuild data read and write operations are enabled However the redundancy is lost until the rebuild is completed Ifa HDD is defected the logical drive in
6. drive s aborted at d because of error failure After checking the WebPAM log take the proper action following the User s guide 1283 Memory multi bit error Failure detected in the controller Replace the controller 63 The above table shows the event IDs in decimal The events listed in the table are reported to NEC ESMPRO Manager The symbols such as 1 in messages are padding characters 64 Appendix Standby Hibernation Lock Installing Standby Hibernation Lock disables the system to be entered into the standby or hibernation state In any environment using N8103 101 N8103 103 RAID system the Standby Hibernation Lock feature is not supported Be sure to install the Standby Hibernation Lock in the following procedure Before the Standby Hibernation Lock can be uninstalled whether the driver is used by another software must always be checked Installation Install the Standby Hibernation Lock in the following procedure 1 Log on the system with an account having the administrator authority such as administrator 2 Before starting the installation exit from all applications being executed 3 For the Windows x64 Editions 64 bit OS environment start WWEBPAM ACPIDV64 EXPLOCK BAT in the attached CD ROM For other Windows environments start WEBPAM ACPIDV32 PAM_INST BAT in the attached CD ROM A dialog box indicating no driver signature may appear on the way as shown below Select Yes if i
7. Click the Security tab 3 Select Internet and click Custom Level The Security Setting dialog box appears 4 Enable the following setting Active script 60 Setting proxy server Bypass the proxy server as follows if used 1 Click Tools Internet Options of Internet Explorer to display the Internet Options dialog box 2 Click the Connections tab and LAN Setting The Local Area Network LAN Setting dialog box appears Set the following depending on the state of the Use a proxy server for your LAN checkbox m Ifa checkmark is not put in the checkbox click OK to terminate the process m Ifacheckmark is put in the checkbox put a checkmark in Bypass proxy server for local addresses and click Advanced Then type the IP address of the managed RAID system in the entry of the Exceptions area Making animation showing advance of synchronization or rebuild displayed 1 Click Tools Internet Options of Internet Explorer 2 Select the Advanced tab and make sure that a checkmark is put on Play animations in web pages in the Multimedia section 3 Ifnot put a checkmark To be ready for saving ASMBE event log files 1 Select Internet Options from the Tools menu of Internet Explorer 2 Select the Security tab and click Custom Level 3 Enable the following setting Downloads section File download 61 Appendix B Report Monitoring Event messages associate
8. E Maxtor 6120M E HOs722580 Ls 5 BB Logical Drive view Show Filter Clear Log Total Rows 30 Current Page 12 MESIN GEST gf Logical Drive 1 Information Settings Drive Mapping Expansion Rebuild Synchronization Initialization Activation Expansion Progress i Source Severity Time Yy Description E amp Enclosure View 1 FastTrak SX4100 Controller 1 Information 2005 06 13 20 44 43 Expansion on logical drive Logical Drive 1 30 2 piers 2 FastTrak SX4100 Controller 1 Information 2005 06 13 20 41 46 Expansion on logical drive Logical Drive 1 20 Fadal palie ch 3 FastTrak SX4100 Controler 1 Information 2005 06 3 20 38 52 Expansion on logical drive Logical Drive 1 10 i s Battery Ee 4 FastTrak 5X4100 Controller 1 Information 20059643 20 36 22 Expansion on logical drive Logical Drive 1 started a 5 FastTrak S 4100 Controller 1 Information 20059643 20 36 16 Logical drive Logical Drive 1 created E ET iS TR 57 3 15 Events WebPAM classifies and records every event occurred in a RAID system as an error warning or information This is valid to solve or diagnose failures occurred in the system Show Event Hide Event of the WebPAM header allows the event frame to be displayed or not alternately 4 Promise Array Manager Microsoft Internet Explorer File Edit View Favorites Tools Help x m Search f Faoite 4 A a B G Bak gt r PROMISE TECHNOLOGY INC
9. File Edit View Favorites Tools Help Pid sak fy lB MD L P Search f Faorte A S B Address E https 127 0 0 1 8443 promise screen jsp v Go Links gt OY TRY De Language English v HideEvent Configuration Logout TECHNOLOGY INC c Promise WebPAM Q User Management amp Host Management H a r By Utility Configuration ESTRA 7 ag SuperTrak EX8350 Media Patrol Loop Count controller 4 Media Patrol Error Count ED Piel Drive View s38001345 Bi st3so0134s BB HDS728080PL438 HOS728080PL43ar 3 SB Losical Drive View BB Logical Drive 1 BB Logical Drive 2 Information Settings Media Patrol BSL Locate Drive Disk Media Patrol Progress Enclosure View E spare Drive View Source Severity Time V Description LA 1 Battery 1 SuperTrak EX8350 Controller 1 ca id 2006 03 30 11 06 41 Media patrol on disk 4 10 2 SuperTrak EX8350 Controller 1 Information 2006 03 30 11 06 23 Media patrol on disk 3 10 3 SuperTrak EX8350 Controller 1 Information 2006 03 30 10 45 35 Media patrol on disk 4 started 4 SuperTrak EX8350 Controller 1 information 2006 03 30 10 45 31 Media patrol on disk 3 started 5 SuperTrak EX8350 Controller 1 Information 2006 03 30 10 45 10 Synchronization on logical drive Logical Drive 1 aborted at 57 6 SuperTrak EX8350 Controller 1 Information 2006 03 30 10 43 19 Synchronization on logical drive Logical Drive 1 50 g
10. State Indicates the battery charge state Fully Charged The battery is fully charged Charging The battery is now charged Discharging The battery is discharging Recondition The battery state is now reconditioned Now Reading The battery state is now being checked Malfunction The battery is in a malfunctioning state If the battery state is other than Fully Charged and a voltage or temperature error occurs the voltage is less than 3 9 VDC or the temperature is lower than 10 C or higher than 60 C with the write cache mode for logical drives set to AutoSwitch the mode is automatically changed to Write Through In addition the following log 1s registered AutoCache write mode of logical drive s is changed to s 33 3 Splitting or Merging Hard Disk Drive 3 1 Splitting HDD A single HDD can be split into two blocks each of which can be used as a member of a logical drive Split a single HDD in the following procedure 1 Click Physical Drive View in the Tree View Capacity Status WDC WD1600JS 19MHBO WDC WD1 6005 1 SMHBO WDC VWD1600JS 1 9MHBO wc woso0up 191 a0 400268 160 04 GB Rebuilding Free 79 95 GB BB avsitavie BB assignee BB spare W ii Py _ _ in cn oy me Ow Om Ow Do noe ne 88 2 8s 2 Ss D 5 5 5 _ _ _ I fa ho 2 Click the Split tab in the Management Window a FEET ATY OT NA PS Physical Drive View Y MedaParolschewe BSL
11. Lock in the order The Standby Hibernation Lock Properties dialog box appears Click the Driver tab Then clock Delete The Confirm Device Removal dialog box appears as shown below Confirm Device Removal 3 EO 2 I m Standby Hibernation Lock Warming You are about to uninstall this device from pour system f Cancel 6 Click OK Now the uninstallation is completed 66 Confirmation of Setup The following procedure can check whether Standby Hibernation Lock is installed or not After installing or uninstalling Standby Hibernation Lock follow the procedure to check the result of the installation or uninstallation 1 Start Computer Management in Administrative Tools and click Device Manager 2 See the device list to make sure that Standby Hibernation Lock appears in System Device In uninstallation make sure that Standby Hibernation Lock does not appear in System Device C Computer Management m File Action View Window Help la x e HH EES RE Rg m Computer Management Local zB System Tools Event viewer Monitors E3 Shared Folders Other devices 5 Fs Local Users and Groups A Ports COM amp LPT Performance Logs and Alert MB Processors 3 Device Manager amp SCSI and RAID controllers S Storage Sound video and game controllers g Removable Storage P System devices gt Keyboards Mice and other pointing devices i FEE E E
12. O O O O 40000 MB Capacity 80 02 GB Type the size of the first block in Split Size Note that the size should be specified in MB Put a checkmark on the Select checkbox of the HDD to be split in the Physical Drive Overview 34 3 Click Submit v RT BB assignee BB spare Bii The HDD is split into two blocks 35 3 2 Merging HDD The two portions resulting from splitting a HDD can be merged to be a single physical drive again Merge the blocks in the following procedure 1 Click Physical Drive View in the Tree View 2 Click the Merge tab in the Management Window Physical Drive View Information Split Merge Media Patrol Schedule BSL Physical Drive Overview Select Port Number Capacity ic 4 80 02 GB Lal Put a checkmark on the Select checkbox of the HDD to be merged in the Physical Drive List 3 Click Submit IMPORTANT m fa block resulting from splitting a HDD is used as a member of a logical drive the block cannot be merged Create a logical drive in either of the following configurations Do not split HDDs and create logical drives in HDDs Split HDDs and create each of logical drives in an identical HDD having the same RAID level and capacity If logical drives are created in any configuration other than above the rebuild process may not be done at the occurrence of a fault in a logical drive Accordingly always create l
13. drive in the procedure below 1 Click Spare Drive View in the Tree View 2 Click the Create tab in the Management Window 3 Select the type of the spare drive from Spare Drive Type Global Spare Available for any logical drive Dedicated Spare Available only for the specified logical drive The name of a logical drive already existing appears 4 Select a physical drive to be set to the spare drive Available physical drives are enclosed with black frames The selected physical drive will be enclosed with a red frame The physical drives enclosed with blue frames are already the members of the logical drive os Spare Drive View information Create Delete Spare Drive Parameters Spare Drive Type Global Spare v _ Drive on Pot 3 120 0 GB Free 119 96 GB _ Drive on Port 4 120 0 GB Free 119 93 GB BB ERR Bi BB EFE B spare B iiia IMPORTANT Set unconfigured disks as spare disks previously Set the capacity of the dedicated spare disk to be the same as that of the relevant logical drive _ 54 5 Click Create The spare drive is set The created spare drive is additionally displayed in the Information tab 3 13 2 Deleting Spare Drive Delete a spare drive in the following procedure 1 Click Spare Drive View in the Tree View 2 Click the Delete tab in the Management Window Spare Drive View Information Create Delete A Spare Drive List Select Capac
14. the instructions in the dialog box that appears InstallShield Wizard Select a directory to install This setup installs WebPAM to following directory To change a directory to install click Browse button and select a directory Destination Folder C Program Files Promise WebPAM Browse i Cancel 4 Click Next The installation is started The popup message Now installing WebPAM appears Now installing wWwebFAM The following popup message also appears lnstallAnywhere lnstallQnywhere is preparing to metall EONTENRAADATANHENANME bs ba Setup finished WebPAh setup was finished To complete a setup you need to restart Restart now Yes want to restart my computer now C No l will restart my computer later OF 9 Select Yes I want to restart my computer now and click OK The system restarts and the installation is computed IMPORTANT To use WebPAM on Internet Explorer some default settings of Internet Explorer must previously be changed Change the default settings following Appendix A Preparation for Using WebPAM on Internet Explorer After the installation of WebPAM always install the Standby Hibernation Lock following Appendix C at the end This RAID system does not support the power control feature NOTE To display event messages on the NEC ESMPRO Manager or to use the express report service some settings may be require
15. to restart my computer now and click OK The system restarts and the uninstallation is computed NOTE Then depending on the system status uninstall the Standby Hibernation Lock following Appendix C 3 Operation This chapter describes how to start WebPAM and how to operate the screens to be displayed 3 1 Starting and Exiting WebPAM IMPORTANT Do not start more than one Web browser for a specific controller at a time Whenever WebPAM 1s started the security warning screen appears Click Yes to display the logon screen Even if you click Installing certification to install the certification the security warning screen appears again in the next start The user ID and password is set to admin by default In the first logon specify admin as the user name and password For changing the password admin to another after the logon see 3 4 Creating or Changing User Account Note that these user ID and password are different from those required for logging into the OS The Logical Drive logical drive name goes offline message may be registered the first time you start the system This is not a problem unless there are any other warning error messages before or after the message and unless any abnormal statuses are found in the WebPAM screen The crypt32 error message with ID 8 may be registered in the application log at WebPAM startup This has no effect on WebPAM operation NOTES Depe
16. 09508cd0 Ox0000000009508cd1 Ox0000000009508cdc Ox0000000009508cdd Ox0000000009508cde Ox0000000009508caf Clicking Save BSL allows the BSL information of all HDDs to be saved in a file information Split Merge Media Patrol Schedule BSL Bad Sector Log List Drive on Port 1 No Bad Sector s logged Bad Sector Log List Drive on Port 2 Count Ox 1 Ox 1 Ox 1 Ox 1 Ox 1 Ox 1 Ox 1 Ox 1 Save BSL 25 Status Ox 51 Ox 51 Ox 51 Ox 51 Ox 51 Ox 51 Ox 51 Ox 51 Flags Ox 8001 Ox 8001 Ox 8001 Ox 8001 Ox 8001 Ox 8001 Ox 8001 Ox 8001 3 6 3 Physical Drive If you click the Physical Drive icon subordinate to the Physical Drive View in the Tree View the information on the HDD appears in the Management Window Information tab Physical Drive Information Information Settings Media Patrol BSL Locate Drive Basic Information Drive Model Wot VvDs00JD 22JN40 Serial Number VD AMS SB 96 46 Firmware Version 05 01 C05 Port Humber 7 Target ID 0 Enclosure Mone Drive Information Drive Status Functional Background Activity Idle Capacity 80 02 GB Utra DMA Mode UDMAS SMART Status Healthy Write Cache Status Enable G Graphic View C Drive on Port 1 80 02 GB Assigned LD 1 1 79 95 GB AET BB ine B sparc EE Basic Information Drive Model Vendor ID of this HDD Serial Number Serial number of this HDD Firmware version of this HDD Port Number Port number of controller to
17. 30 10 21 52 internet At first up to 20 new events are displayed Click Prev Page to see the next 20 events Click Next Page to see the previous 20 events Click Show Filter to filter events by using the event level severity and the date range as keys Click Save Log to record events in a file Click Clear Log to delete all registered events 58 3 16 Collecting Configuration Information You can acquire the information regarding controller and array configuration information This feature is only for maintenance Please use the feature only when you are requested to use it by a field engineer 1 Click Configuration in the WebPAM Header field The configuration information will be displayed in the Management Window 2 Scroll the list displayed and click Save at the bottom of the window to save the configuration information 59 Appendix A Preparation for Using WebPAM on Internet Explorer Microsoft Internet Explorer IE 6 0 or later is only supported as the browser operating WebPAM Setting Security Level When Internet Explorer uses security set at a high level some troubles may occur Security of a high level disables Java scripts When your web browser uses security of a high level the following settings must be enabled JavaScript Set security in the custom level as follows 1 Click Tools Internet Options of Internet Explorer to display the Internet Options dialog box 2
18. 4 2 Rebuild tab See 3 12 Rebuilding Logical Drive Synchronization tab See 3 11 Synchronizing Logical Drive Initialization tab See 3 8 Creating Logical Drive Activation tab The Activation tab is unavailable 3 6 6 Enclosure This feature is not supported 3 6 Spare Drive View If you click the Spare Drive View icon in the Tree View the information on the HDD appears in the Management View Information tab The Information tab displays the states of spare drives set now graphically Spare Drive View Information Create Delete v Graphic View _ Drive on Port3 120 03 GB Global Spare 119 96 GB C Drive on Port4 120 00 6B Global Spare 119 93 GB i BB assigned D Spare D Invalid 389 Create tab See 3 13 1 Creating Spare Drive Delete tab See 3 13 2 Deleting Spare Drive 3 6 8 Battery If you select the Battery icon in the Tree View the information on battery including its temperature humidity and charging status is displayed as shown in the figure below Information h Basic Information Temperature 30 5 Claro F Voltage 44 State Fully Charged Temperature Indicates the temperature of the battery Note that a retry may be done when reading the temperature value showing Now Reading Voltage Indicates the voltage of the battery Note that a retry may be done when reading the voltage value or being charged showing shows Now Reading
19. D1 RAID Level RAID 1 Capacity 79 95 GB Status Functional Background Activity Idle Graphic View C Drive on Port 1 80 02 GB 79 95 GB L Drive on Port2 80 02 GB Assigned LD 1 2 79 95 GB ERT BB ER W ineat BootRAID1 BB spare B iia Assigned Name Name of logical drive RAID Level RAID level Capacity Capacity of this logical drive Status Status of this logical drive Functional normal Critical degrading Offline fault Background Activity Background task associated with this logical drive Idle no background task Rebuilding nn The background task is now rebuilt Synchronizing nn The background task is now synchronized Initialization nn The background task is now initialized Background Activity State Status of background task Appearing when background task exists Running The background task is now executed Paused The background task is now paused Graphic View The Graphic View displays the information on each HDD graphically 230 lt Settings tab la z Logical Drive Information information Settings Rebuild Synchronization Initialization Activation View Change Logical Drive Parameters Assigned Name BootRAID1 Write Cache Mode O Write Through O write Back Auto Switch Write Cache Status Write Back Submit Reset Assigned Name Name of logical drive Write Cache Mode Selected write cache mode Write Cache Status Current write cache status The Write C
20. Default and Submit in the order Schedule tab The Schedule tab lists tasks already scheduled 2 DD x Select Target ActionName Description CEZ All Physical peli Media Patrol Start at 00 00 every Wednesday Start at 05 00 on the 1st every month Delete Reset To delete a scheduled task put a checkmark on the Select checkbox of the task and click Delete oe 3 6 2 Physical Drive View If you select the Physical Drive View icon in the Tree View the outline of the current physical drive appears in the Management Window On this screen you can check the status information of the physical drive schedule the media patrol display or display and or save the defective block information In addition splitting or merging each HDD can be done on this screen Information tab Physical Drive View Information Split Merge Media Patrol Schedule BSL Physical Drive Overview Drive Model Port Humber Capacity Status WDC VVD1 600JS 19MHBO 1 160 04 GB Rebuilding WDC WD1600J5 19MHB0 2 160 00 GB Functional WDC VVD1600JS 19MHBO 3 160 00 GB Functional WDC WWDS00JD 19LS40 4 80 02 GB Functional Graphic View _ Drive on Port 1 160 04 GB Assigned LD 1 1 159 97 GB _ Drive on Port2 160 00 GB Assigned LD 1 2 159 93 GB Drive on Port3 160 00 GB Assigned LD 1 3 159 93 GB J Drive on Port 4 80 02 GB Free 79 95 GB BB vairavie EE B Spare Fy Invalid Physical Drive Overview Drive M
21. Display Name 4 20 character s Passyord 4 8 character s Retype Password Host User Rights Host Hame Creation Rights Deletion Rights Maintenance Rights Notification Rights localhost F C C O 3 Enter proper values as follows User ID Account used at login 4 20 byte alphanumeric characters Display Name User name 4 20 byte alphanumeric characters Password Password 4 8 byte alphanumeric characters Retype Password Value entered in password field Host User Rights Rights to be given to this user The host user rights are described in the table below Right Description o Right of creating logical drive or spare and splitting HDD Right of deleting logical drive or spare and merging HDDs Maintenance Right of performing rebuild synchronization or media patrol and setting or changing controllers or physical drives Notification Right of receiving event receiving notification by popup NOTE The popup report appears while the owner of the popup settings are logging into WebPAM 18 4 After completing the entry click Submit If the user account is created successfully message Created Successfully Display Name User ID appears The created user is added to the list in the Information tab Changing user account settings Select an existing user and changing the Display Name Password and Retype Password in the Settings tab allows the user name and password to be cha
22. NEC NEC Express5800 Series Web based Promise Array Manager User s Guide For N8103 89 N8103 101 N8103 103 Disk Array Controller 1st Edition 11 2006 856 840000 383 A Preface This User s Guide explains the management utility Web based Promise Array Manager to be used for operating N8103 89 N8103 101 or N8103 103 Disk Array Controller provided by Promise The guide is intended for persons who are familiar with Windows functions and operation methods For details on Windows operation see Windows Online Help or manuals When using Web based Promise Array Manager read the User s Guide provided with the system as well Copyrights Promise and its logo are registered trademarks of Promise Technology Inc of the U S A NEC ESMPRO and NEC EXPRESSBUILDER are registered trademarks of NEC Corporation Microsoft its logo Windows Windows Server and MS DOS are worldwide registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation of the U S A All company names and product names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies Notes 1 No part of this manual may be reproduced in any form without the prior written permission of NEC Corporation 2 The contents of this manual may be revised without prior notice 3 The contents of this manual shall not be copied or altered without the prior written permission of NEC Corporation 4 All efforts have been made to ensure the accuracy of all i
23. Spare Drive View a AA Pa tone EE Source 1 SuperTrak EX6350 Controller 1 Information 2006 03 08 15 47 49 Battery cannot be detected SuperTrak EX8350 Controller 1 Information 2006 03 08 15 46 01 Battery cannot be detected Event Frame _ lt gt Done B internet Tree View The Tree View allows the configuration of the RAID system to be displayed hierarchically in the similar way as Windows Explorer Each of the items in each hierarchy can be displayed extensively by displaying the subordinate hierarchies _14 Management Window The information displayed on the Management Window varies depending on the items selected on the Tree View The window allows you to check and update the setting information on users and devices and create maintain delete or monitor logical drives The displayed items include text boxes list boxes fields and buttons The Function tabs are used to control various tasks and processes Depending on logical drives and disk status some Function tabs are unavailable and grayed out Event Frame The Event Frame indicates the list of events The Event Frame can be either displayed or not alternately by selecting Show Event Hide Event on the WebPAM Header See 3 15 Events for details _15 3 3 Icons When you click the link to an icon on the Tree View several setting and status display screens appear on the Management Window The features grayed out on the Managem
24. The buzzer sound stops when the logical drive becomes Functional The buzzer sound may not stop depending on the type of your system In this case set the option to Disable and restart the system to stop the buzzer sound m The buzzer feature cannot be used if the sound module is not installed Manual start of rebuild The rebuild process for a logical drive in the critical state can be manually started _51 IMPORTANT Please make sure that Auto Rebuild Status is set to Disable in Controller Settings tab to enable automatic start of rebuild For details see the description of the Settings tab in 3 6 1 Controller Click the Logical Drive icon in the critical state in the Tree View The status of the logical drive will be displayed in the Management Window The following image shows that a RAID1 has become degraded due to the failure on the disk on Port 4 and been replaced with a new disk A Promise Array Manager Microsoft Internet Explorer File Edit View Favorites Tools Help Bak x E GD LP Search K Faoite B A Address https 127 0 0 1 8443 promise screen jsp PROMISE TECHNOLOGY INC Promise WebPAM E a aN Toa Fi i Q User Management o Host Management ey utility Configuration GHR SuperTrak Ex8350 EA Controller 1 D sT38001345 o E sT3s0m3as Se D HDS728080PLA381 SRB Logical Drive View BB BootRain1 B Logical Drive 1 i B Logical Drive 2 ia 4 Enclosur
25. Window The selected portion is enclosed with a red frame Z Promise Array Manager Microsoft Internet Explorer File Edit View Favorites Tools Help bd Qeack i GD Asah Favorites B A 3 B Address https 127 0 0 1 8443 promise screen jsp PROMISE Language English v ShowEvent Configuration Logout TECHNOLOGY INC Links gt JPE p Promise WebPAM ear s 2 User Management amp Host Management Fes a by utility Configuration J Drive on Port4 82 34 GB i Di SuperTrak EX8350 Pri 82 28 GB Sf Controler 1 BB serectes Waie B inaia Physical Drive View E st3s00134s stas0013as Hos728080PL 4361 BD Hos728080PL438 agical Drive View BoctRAID1 Logical Drive 1 12 7 Logical Drive 2 Enclosure View Spare Drive View 1 Battery 4 Click Start Now to start rebuilding a5 3 3 13 Creating or Deleting Spare Drive 3 13 1 Creating Spare Drive IMPORTANT Do not use the following hard disk drives to create spare drives m Hard disk drives already used by logical drives Hard disk drives already partitioned When a hard disk drive is defected in a redundant logical drive a spare drive is used to protect the logical drive In actual if a hard disk drive is defected in a redundant logical drive a spare drive is provided with rebuild to substitute for the defected hard disk drive for protecting the logical drive Create a spare
26. a errors as early as possible and only repair HDDs which are the members of a redundant RAID However the media patrol does not have the feature of checking the consistency with parity The function starts media patrol and runs though the HDDs you specified If you specify a task scheduling media patrol will regularly start at the specified date and time and also run through the HDDs specified The function does not perform endlessly If a media error is detected in a HDD being a member of non redundant RAID The error sector is registered to BSL Error during media patrol If an unrecoverable error is detected during media patrol the error count in the Media Patrol Information is incremented The error count indicates the accumulated value If more than 21 errors are detected in a single media patrol the HDD is entered into the offline status subject to comparatively small load in any period including the night For the media patrol follow the procedure below 1 Click the Physical Drive View icon in the Tree View 2 Click the Media Patrol Schedule tab in the Management Window 3 Click Start Now Media Patrol starts 46 Information Split Merge Media Patrol Schedule BSL Start Now The progress of media patrol appears in the Media Patrol tab of each physical drive Animation showing that media patrol is now advanced appears in the Tree View 74 Promise Array Manager Microsoft Internet Explorer
27. ache Mode allows you to set the write cache mode of the logical drive Write Through __ If this mode is selected cache is not used in writing Write Back If this mode is selected cache 1s always used in writing It is expected that the setting improves writing performance However if the battery power is insufficient the data integrity at power off is rather low Thus it cannot be recommended to use this mode Auto Switch If an additional battery is connected and charged enough the operation takes place in the write back mode The improvement of the writing performance can be expected When the battery power is insufficient the operation takes place in the write through mode The data integrity at power off can be kept If the battery state is other than Fully Charged and a voltage or temperature error occurs the voltage is less than 3 9 VDC or the temperature is lower than 10 C or higher than 60 C under the selection of AutoSwitch the mode is automatically changed to Write Through In addition the following log is registered AutoCache write mode of logical drive s is changed to s When the mode is changed click Submit to enable the change Drive Mapping tab Attention This feature is supported only with N8103 89 The Drive Mapping tab indicates how HDDs are mapped to a logical drive of RAID10 if any Expansion tab Attention This feature is supported only with N8103 89 See 3 14 Expanding Logical Drive 28
28. al Drive 1 50 2 SuperTrak EX8350 Controller 1 Information 2006 03 30 12 30 05 Rebuild on logical drive Logical Drive 1 40 J 3 SuperTrak EX8350 Controller 1 Information 2006 03 30 12 10 04 Rebuild on logical drive Logical Drive 1 30 4 SuperTrak EX8350 Controller 1 Information 2006 03 30 11 49 52 Rebuild on logical drive Logical Drive 1 20 5 SuperTrak EX8350 Controller 1 Information 2006 03 30 11 30 30 Rebuild on logical drive Logical Drive 1 10 6 SuperTrak EX8350 Controller 1 Information 2006 03 30 11 11 11 Rebuild on logical drive Logical Drive 1 started on 1 lt gt 7 SuperTrak EX8350 Controller 1 Warning 2006 03 30 11 11 11 Logical drive Logical Drive 1 goes critical v Done E Internet At the completion of the rebuild the logical drive returns to the normal state NOTES m At the end of rebuild always check the event log to see if any error occurs during rebuild When a media error occurs a message indicating the occurrence of the error appears before the message indicating that the rebuild has terminated normally m The interval from the removal of the defected HDD to the installation of a substitute HDD should be 90 sec or longer m Ifthe Buzzer Status is set to Enable in the controller setup the buzzer beeps with the logical drive being in the critical or offline status or during rebuild To switch the buzzer on off use the Buzzer Status radio button in the Settings tab of the controller
29. c Promise WebPAM Administrative To ty User Management Bh host Management ABs Utility Configuration ava T B SuperTrak Exeaso E Controller 1 Si Physical Drive View E sT3s0m3as E sT28001345 o E Hos728080PLa3at ee HDS728080PLA38 3 S Logical Drive View BB Logical Drive 1 Be Logical Drive 2 EB Logical Drive 3 A Enclosure View Gil spare Drive View if A Battery lt Done Address E https 127 0 0 1 8443 promise screen jsp Links gt IPE Language English v HideEvent Configuration Logout Settings Information Rebuild Synchronization Initialization Activation Synchronization Progress 7 Pause Resume Abort Total Rows 24 Current Page 1 2 Source Severity Time Y Description SuperTrak EX8350 Controller 1 Information 2006 03 30 10 22 22 Synchronization on logical drive Logical Drive 2 started po Synchronization is requested to perform on the logical drive Logical uperTrak EX8350 Controller 1 Warning 2006 03 30 10 22 22 Dure aha is ae bean I Information 2006 03 30 10 22 04 Media patrol on disk 1 aborted at 8 3 z Controller 1 SuperTrak EX8350 Ct SuperTrak EX8350 Controller 1 SuperTrak EX8350 Controller 1 Information 2006 03 30 10 22 01 Media patrol on disk 2 aborted at 8 AO a i e nu eu amp Media patrol on disk 4 aborted at 7 Informate inn Q Information 2006 03
30. cluding the HDD is entered into the critical state which is notified IMPORTANT If there is no spare drive and free HDDs attached to the controller please be sure to set Auto Rebuild Status to Disable If Enable you will not able to see the Port ID of the failed HDD in its event message when a logical drive goes degraded m The progress percentage in the following message may change to incorrect value when you click Pause while the pregress is 0 Rebuild on logical drive s paused at d This message is also registered in the system event log During rebuild the system is subject to much load and thus the processing rate is decreased Automatic start of rebuild The rebuild process for a logical drive in the critical state is automatically started under the following conditions Automatic Rebuild Existing spare disk New disk substituting Existing unconfigured Policy in Controller for defected disk disk Settings tab Spare Using this disk rebuild Not used for rebuild Not used for rebuild is automatically Rebuild is Rebuild is started automatically started if automatically started if this disk is set to this disk is set to spare spare Free amp Spare Used for rebuild at the Used for rebuild 1 Used for rebuild 1 highest priority 1 Used in the ascending order of port numbers IMPORTANT Please make sure that Auto Rebuild Status is set to Enable in Controller Set
31. created and click Next eF 3 Specify the size of the logical drive and the disk drives to be used Step 1 Select RAID Level Step 3 Assign a Name Step 4 Final Settings Select Drives RAID 1 Mirror Data is mirrored over a pair of drives for redundancy and increased read performance Logical Drive Size as Use Maximum Capacity Please select 2 drives for RAID 1 ip yi Free WFree 60 00 GB 59 96 GB Free ree 60 00 GB 1159 93 GB i EEF EE ER BB spare Dii m On the Logical Drive Size specify the capacity of the logical drive To use the maximum capacity of the disk put a checkmark on the Use Maximum Capacity checkbox a checkmark is put by default To specify a capacity remove the checkmark from the checkbox and type a required value in Logical Drive Size in MB Ex To create a logical drive of 40 GB type 40000 Select physical drives to be used Selectable drives are enclosed with black frames If a drive is selected it will be enclosed with a red frame Click Next 4 Type the name of the logical drive in Assigned Name and click Next Step 1 Select RAID Level Step 2 Select Drives Step 4 Final Settings Assign a Name Assign a name to the logical drive Assigned Name Logical Drive 1 1 32 character s 38 Check the logical drive name RAID level and logical drive capacity in the Name RAID Level and Logical Drive Size fields respectively Select
32. ct the hibernation state from the shutdown menu the popup appears to stop the system entering into the hibernation state System Standby Failed The device driver for the Standby Hibernation Lock device is preventing the machine from entering standby Please close all applications and try again IF the problem persists you may need to update this driver The popup does not mean the occurrence of an error in Standby Hibernation Lock Instead it indicates that Standby Hibernation Lock normally prevents the system from entering into the standby or hibernation state The popup cannot be suppressed because it is displayed by the operating system Click OK to terminate the popup If it is determined that the system is prevented from entering into the standby or hibernation state the following log is stored in the event log Event Properties Event Date 3 200 Source ExpPam t Time 38 38 PM Category None Type Error EventID 43 E User N A Computer SPRITZER S Description The system sleep operation failed For more information see Help and Support Center at http 4 qo microsoft com fwlink events asp Data Bytes O Words 9000 16 00 00 00 01 00 be 00 4 A 0008 00 00 00 00 2b 00 04 c0 Cw 0010 02 00 03 00 bb 00 00 c0 v Cancel The log is stored by the operating system in the event log The message The system sleep operation failed appears i
33. d Make the settings appropriately following Appendix B For the event list see Appendix B 2 2 Uninstalling WebPAM IMPORTANT Do not uninstall WebPAM with Adding Removing Application or Adding Removing Program on Control Panel Follow the procedure described in this chapter to uninstall WebPAM NOTE WebPAM is required for managing the RAID system Do not uninstall WebPAM unless you have to uninstall for maintenance including the upgrade of the utility 1 Insert the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER CD ROM into the CD ROM drive of your computer 2 Click Software Setup on the Master Control Menu appearing on the screen Then click Web based Promise Array Manager The Select Install Uninstall dialog box appears InstallShield Wizard Setup Type Choose the setup type that best suits your needs Select Install or Uninstall Click Next to Continue F Installation for WebPAM A esseseseseseosooeoeosocdcosoosoeocessesesesteseseoessseessoese cuca 3 Select Uninstallation for WebPAM and click Next The uninstallation is started The popup message Now uninstalling WebPAM appears How uninstalling WfebPaM The Setup finished dialog box appears when WebPAM has been uninstalled Setup finished WebPAM setup was finished To complete a setup you need to restart Restart now f Yes want to restart my computer now No will restart my computer later OF Select Yes I want
34. d with this RAID system can be displayed on the NEC ESMPRO Manager Select the procedure depending on the environment as described below To display the event messages on the NEC ESMPRO Manager operating on a machine other than the server to which the RAID system is connected take the following procedure on the machine To display the event messages on the NEC ESMPRO Manager operating on the server to which the RAID system is connected no setting is required 1 Insert the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER CD ROM into the CD ROM drive of the computer If the Master Control Menu appears on the screen after the insertion close the menu 2 Start WEBPAM WPMALERT WPMMANEN EXE in the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER CD ROM Setting the alert registry 7 Execute the alert regiatry Are You sure 3 Click Yes NOTE If you click No the operation terminates without setting 4 Click OK Setting the alert registry x Setting the alert registry is completed Reboot the system to validate setting 5 Reboot the system 62 Alert report messages and actions Just after the installation of WebPAM the following messages registered with source name Promise Napa I2API in the application event log are set as reported sources To change the setting redefine it by using the report setting feature of the NEC ESMPRO Agent avert Message Action Man ALIVE ID ager Check if some defects occur in HDDs and cables Remove the de
35. ds specify the user ID and password respectively m Click Sign in 7 Promise Array Manager Login Microsoft Internet Explorer File Edit View Favorites Tools Help Qx O Pa P Search Fe Favorites 2 a B Address ej https 127 0 0 1 8443 promise findex jsp OY TRY Oe Language TECHNOLOGY INC 2006 Promise Technology Inc All rights reserved lt 12 3 1 2 Controlling WebPAM with a Remote Computer 1 Start the Web browser 2 Inthe Address box on the browser screen type the IP address of the Promise RAID system to be controlled and press Enter For example if the IP address is 10 10 10 10 type https 10 10 10 10 8443 promise The WebPAM logon screen appears when a session with the remote system is established NOTE If using a proxy server for making access to the Internet you need to bypass the proxy server See Appendix A for the setting procedure 3 The Security Alert window will appear Click Yes 4 On the logon screen perform the following operations m In the Login ID and Password fields specify the user ID and password respectively m Click Sign in 3 1 3 Exiting WebPAM Click Logout on the WebPAM Header of the WebPAM operation window to exit the WebPAM operation window Click x at the upper right corner of the WebPAM logon window to exit it 13 3 2 WebPAM Operation Window IMPORTANT If no polling for logical drive monitoring cont
36. e View Gl Spare Drive View ae 4 Battery lt Done Eco ink Language English ShowEvent Configuration Logout Assigned Name RAID Level Capacity Status Background Activity Graphic view C Drive on Port3 2 34 GB Logical Drive 2 RAID 1 40 00 GB Critical Idle Assigned LD 3 1 Free 40 00 GB 42 28 GB ER EE Wini to Logical Drive 2 BB spare BB iis B internet Click the Rebuild tab on the Management Window The portion that you can use for rebuilding are enclosed with red frames being displayed as Free You cannot use the portion enclosed with gray frames 52 E Promise Array Manager Microsoft Internet Explorer File Edit Yiew Favorites Tools Help i d ba NA Asah Faoite A R amp S Address https 127 0 0 1 8443 promise screen jsp v gc Links PROMISE Language English ShowEvent Configuration Logout TECHNOLOGY INC Promise WebPAM j information Settings Rebuild Synchronization Initialization Activation J Drive on Pot 4 82 34 GB S SuperTrak Ex8350 Cam 3 Sf Controller 1 E Selected E o Invalid Physical Drive View D st3e00134s E sT38001345 HDS728080PLA381 o E ps7 28080PL 4381 SHE Logical Drive view O Beootrant B Logical Drive 1 Logical Drive 2 Enclosure View Spare Drive View 1 Battery B Internet 3 Click the portion that you will use for rebuilding on the Management
37. e to much load during synchronization 4 Promise Array Manager Microsoft Internet Explorer aAA File Edit Yiew Favorites Tools Help s RA OD LsSearch Faoite O Gr B Address j https 127 0 0 1 8443 promise screen jsp ROGERS De Language English v HideEvent Configuration Logout TECHNOLOGY INC v E o Links Promise WebPAM ogical information Information Settings Rebuild Synchronization Initialization Activation amp User Management E Host Management Sy Liity Configuration B SuperTrak Ex8350 Si Controller 1 hysical Drive View HDS728080PLA38t Logical Drive View gp Logical Drive 1 Source Severity Time y Description tual 1 SuperTrak EX8350 Controller 1 Information 2006 03 30 10 43 19 Synchronization on logical drive Logical Drive 1 50 A 2 SuperTrak EX8350 Controller 1 Information 2006 03 30 10 41 01 Synchronization on logical drive Logical Drive 1 40 3 SuperTrak EX8350 Controller 1 Information 2006 03 30 10 38 55 Synchronization on logical drive Logical Drive 1 30 4 SuperTrak EX8350 Controller 1 Information 2006 03 30 10 37 10 Synchronization on logical drive Logical Drive 1 20 5 SuperTrak EX8350 Controller 1 Information 2006 03 30 10 35 25 Synchronization on logical drive Logical Drive 1 10 6 SuperTrak EX8350 Controller 1 Information 2006 03 30 10 33 37 Synchronization on logical drive Logical D
38. eate Delete Synchronization Schedule Logical Drive Overview Select Assigned Hame RAID Level Status Background Activity Capacity BootRAID1 RAID 1 Functional Idle 79 95 GB Logical Drive 1 RAID 1 Functional Idle 39 99 GB Put a checkmark on the Select checkbox of the logical drive to be deleted and click Submit 3 The following confirmation screen appears Microsoft Internet Explorer ud 2 Are you sure you want to delete selected logical drive s Microsoft Internet Explorer i WARNING ALL DATA on the selected logical drive s will be permanently ERASED 7 Please click OK to make sure that you want to delete selected logical drive s After the confirmation click OK 41 3 10 Synchronizing Logical Drive Routine synchronization allows inconsistencies to be detected and repaired to prevent rebuilding from failing at a HDD fault This is available for logical drives of RAID 1 5 or 10 In order to keep the stable operation of the RAID system it is strongly recommended to provide the routine synchronization by using the scheduling feature Because synchronization can continue at a constant rate under heavy system load it is recommended to use the synchronization in an environment where the HDDs are frequently accessed and the system is always subject to load IMPORTANT Redundancy check is not possible for all logical drives including non initialized RAID If you try the following message is registered and t
39. ent Window are unavailable For details of features see the relevant chapters Administrative Tools icon User Management Displays the user management host Host Management management and utility configuration Utility Configuration information on WebPAM Lists user IDs registered currently in the Information tab In logon with admin user creation deletion or setting is enabled on the Create or Delete tab In logon as a user other than admin the settings of the self password and event popup can only be changed g Displays the host IP address and display name User Management icon Host Management icon Displays the current host information aa In logon with admin the refresh interval of event frame can be set The interval can be 15 30 60 or 300 seconds The default is 30 sec g Displays the host information including WebPAM Host icon Utility Configuration icon version display name IP address and OS information Note Windows2003 will be Displays the host IP address information displayed in the Windows XP 64bit environment Rescan icon The Rescan icon updates the screen status to Updates the screen to the latest the latest one If you click this icon the information confirmation screen Are you sure you want to rescan appears Then click OK Displays the installed RAID card SuperTrak icon Displays the BIOS and driver information In l im addition various setting
40. fects if any 271 Media patrol on disk d aborted at d because of error 275 d disk error logged on disk d 523 Rebuild on logical drive s paused at d Rebuild on logical drive 525 s aborted at d Rebuild on logical drive s aborted at d 528 Foreground Initialization on logical drive s started because of error 529 Foreground Initialization on logical drive s paused at d Bad sectors have been accumulated in the HDD The user should prepare the Vo dN HD for replace or hotspare HDD FF l Rebuild failed After checking the y y WebPAM log take the proper action following the User s Guide C an Fr r None Rebuild on logical drive s resumed Rebuild on logical drive s completed Check if some defects occur in HDDs and cables Remove the defects if any Foreground Initialization on logical drive s aborted at d because of error Check if some defects occur in HDDs and cables Remove the defects if any Background Initialization on logical drive s aborted at d because of error Check if some defects occur in HDDs and cables Remove the defects if any Synchronization on logical Check if some defects occur in HDDs and cables Remove the defects if any Redundancy Check on logical drive s aborted at d because of error Rebuild on logical drive Rebuild failed due to the target HDD s rebuild on stream d aborted at d
41. gement computer WebPAM must be installed in the machine to which N8103 101 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 transfer data 1 2 Precautions Be sure to read the following notes and precautions before using WebPAM m It is strongly recommended to provide media patrol or synchronization routinely for all logical drives and HDDs to be connected Whether the media patrol or the synchronization is used may be determined as follows depending on the environment of your system Synchronization Environment in which your system is always subject to load Synchronization can continue at a constant rate under heavy system load Media patrol Environment in which your system is subject to comparatively small load in any period including the night Media Patrol has lower priority than other tasks in the system so it may make little progress under heavy system load The above action allows you to find subsequent defects due to degradation such as aging in files of low access frequency and unused areas as soon as possible In rebuilding after replacement of a HDD due to a failure subsequent defects may be found in remaining HDDs In such a case the system cannot be recovered Thus detecting subsequent defects as early as possible is extremely effective as preventive maintenance Periodical sync
42. ground task Rebuilding The background task is now rebuilt Synchronizing The background task is now synchronized Initializing The background task is now initialized Capacity Capacity of this logical drive The following logical drive states appear in the Status field Functional The logical drive operates normally Critical Displayed when one of HDDs configuring a redundant logical drive is defected Because the redundancy is lost the rebuild process should be done as soon as possible Offline Displayed when a logical drive cannot be recovered any more a HDD in a logical drive of RAID 0 is defected or two HDDs in a logical drive of RAID 5 are defected Delete the relevant logical drive and replace the defected HDD s and create the logical drive again Click the name of a logical drive Assigned Name in the Information tab to display the name of each logical drive assigned name in the tab Create tab See 3 8 Creating Logical Drive Delete tab See 3 9 Deleting Logical Drive Synchronization Schedule tab See 3 10 Synchronizing Logical Drive 29 3 6 5 Logical Drive If you click a Logical Drive icon subordinate to the Logical Drive View in the Tree View the information on the HDDs appears in the Management Window Information tab F z Logical Drive Information Information Settings Rebuild Synchronization Initialization Activation Basic Information Assigned Name BootRAI
43. he following settings The option is not displayed when Automatic Rebuild Status is set to Disabled Free amp Spare If the logical drive having a sufficient capacity includes unconfigured or spare disks the rebuild is started by using the disks the spare disks are used preferentially The rebuild is started only when a logical drive includes spare disks Buzzer Status Set whether buzzer beep is enabled or disabled S M A R T Status Set whether the S M A R T information is acquired S M A R T Check Polling Set the interval at which the S M A R T information is acquired Interval The option is not displayed when S M A R T Status is set to Disabled Battery Not Detected Event Set whether the battery not detected message is registered or not at system startup Note that the message is always registered when WebPAM detects the battery connected Enable The condition of the battery is checked and a default message is logged When the battery is not detected the Battery cannot be detected message is registered When the battery is detected and the condition is OK the Battery becomes normal message is registered Disable No message is logged if the battery is not detected To return to the original values at the redisplay of this screen after changing some settings click Reset To change some settings and enable the new values click Submit To return to the recommended default values click
44. he redundancy check is not performed Redundancy Check was rejected because the logical drive Logical Drive 1 has never been initialized m Ifthe system aborts just after the start of synchronization the progress in the following message registered to the log may not appear correctly Synchronization on BOOT RAIDI aborusd at sds s Synchronizatvon on BOOT RALDI paused at sds s To synchronize a logical drive follow the procedure below 1 Click the Logical Drive View icon in the Tree View 2 Click the Synchronization Schedule tab in the Management Window 3 Select Fix or Redundancy Check from the Policy pull down menu Fix If an inconsistency error is detected data is repaired from the other mating disk configuring the RAID Redundancy Check If an inconsistency error is detected the process is continued without repair of the error _42 4 Click Start Now The synchronization is started Information Create Delete Synchronization Schedule An automated process of checking data and parity E Start at 0 z 0 g O By Week Start At 0 Jf fi Y Every Sunday v By Month start at 5 0 Ylonthe 1st Example 10 30 hh mm Schedule The progress of synchronization appears in the Synchronization tab of each logical drive Animation showing the synchronization is advanced appears in the Tree View NOTE Note that the processing rate decreases du
45. hronization or media patrol 1s effective to keep the stable operation of your system It is strongly recommended to take the action once per week or at least once per month For the detailed explanation and routine action see the description on the scheduling of the synchronization or media patrol in this manual Note that a media patrol task has been scheduled to be done on AMO 00 every Wednesday by default To use the report monitoring by the NEC ESMPRO Manager or the express report service the NEC ESMPRO Agent must be installed before the installation of WebPAM To use WebPAM on Internet Explorer some default settings of Internet Explorer must previously be changed Change the default settings following Appendix A Preparation for Using WebPAM on Internet Explorer m If there is no spare drive and free HDDs attached to the controller please be sure to set Auto Rebuild Status to Disable If Enable you will not able to see the Port ID of the failed HDD in its event message when a logical drive goes degraded After the installation of WebPAM always install the Standby Hibernation Lock following Appendix C at the end This RAID system does not support the power control feature To start WebPAM more than 255 colors must be selected in the screen setup If only up to 255 colors are selected the popup requesting more than 255 colors appear and WebPAM cannot be started On WebPAM the capacity is calculated and displayed based on
46. inues for a certain period about an hour with the WebPAM operation screen remaining open popup Please log in again appears and the WebPAM logon screen appears again This is based on the WebPAM security specification If the status occurs log into WebPAM again When you try to display the WebPAM operation screen by using the Return button of Internet Explorer after logoff also popup Please log in again appears and the WebPAM screen appears again In this case also log into WebPAM again The WebPAM window is mainly configured with three parts Tree View Management Window and Event Frame e Promise Array Manager Microsoft Internet Explorer File Edit wiew Favorites Tools Help a ba N fe GH Asah Faorte A amp B Address https 127 0 0 1 8443 promise screen jsp PROMISE Language Hide Event Configuration ebPAM Header Promise WebPAM Administrative To ati Synchronization _ nitialization Activation User Management A A S T 5 al Assigned Name Logical Drive 1 za Tree View ADLevel RAID 1 Mana 2 r ARI Eepe gement Window E SuperTrak Ex8350 a ESER no 1 Background Activity Idle i fd Physical Drive View E s13120026a5 M Granik Nian D sT312002645 C Drive on Port 120 03 GB E sT312002645 Assigned LD 2 o E sTa12002645 pA aR 114 96 GB of pa casts C Drive on Port8 120 03 GB z Biss E Logical Drive 1 Enclosure view GE
47. ity Status State aE 79 95 GE Dedicated Spare Idle C 79 95 GH Dedicated Spare Idle Put a checkmark in the Select checkbox of the spare drive to be deleted and click Delete The following popup appears Confirm the deletion and click OK Microsoft Internet Explorer Ed i 7 re you sure vou want to delete The selected spare drive is deleted _ 55 3 14 Expanding Logical Drive IMPORTANT m This feature is supported only with N8103 89 Before expanding a logical drive always back up the data in the disks If an unexpected error occurs during expansion some data may be broken in the disks Expansions in RAIDS and RAIDO are enabled In expansion the capacity of the expanded drive should be the same as that of the original drive Before expansion for a logical drive of split configuration the disk to be added should be split with the same capacity If not either split block of the logical drive can be expanded but the other split block cannot be expanded 1 Click the Logical Drive View icon in the Tree View 2 Click the Logical Drive icon to be expanded 3 Click the Expansion tab in the Management Window Logical Drive Information information Settings Drive Mapping Expansion Rebuild Synchronization Initialization Activation Basic Information Assigned Name Logical Drive 1 RAID Level RAID 5 Stripe Size 64 KB Capacity 119 99 GB Status Functional Background Activity Idle
48. n the Description field in spite of whether an attempt is made to enter the system into the standby or hibernation state 68
49. nding on the OS used browser and or color scheme the images shown in this manual may be different from the actual images If you attempt to start WebPAM and that is the first time to start Internet Explorer with the server a screen of internet connection preparation may be displayed In this case perform initial settings of Internet Explorer for the server Whenever the system is started the WebPAM service checks the battery status and register the result to the proper log 10 If no battery is installed a message Battery cannot be detected is registered If installed Battery becomes normal is registered The battery related messages can be set so as not to be registered For details see 3 6 1 Controller 11 3 1 1 Controlling WebPAM with a Local Computer 1 Select Start Programs Promise gt WebPAM Then click WebPAM Administrator _ g My Computer B Control Panel Sia Administrative Tools ka Printers and Faxes Help and Support w Windows Catalog rm Notepad Windows Update Ra Services I Accessories Startup Internet Explorer GQ Outlook Express e Remote Assistance I NEC ESMPRO Agent NEC ESMPRO Agent ESMDisk4rray AllPrograms fi Promise ec WwebPAM D Log Off oJ Shut Down 2 The Security Alert window will appear Click Yes 3 Perform the following operation on the logon screen m In the Login ID and Password fiel
50. nformation in this manual If you notice any part unclear incorrect or omitted in this manual contact the sales agent where you purchased this product 5 NEC assumes no liability arising from the use of this product nor any liability for incidental or consequential damages arising from the use of this manual regardless of Item 4 Contents ta OVOTWIOW iorn denaaunmocexpadodennatnmanccseadveuadvacsbsentacansiuaceutaacutinoasaumeauuas 1 lei Web based Promise Array Manae oo c0 cc5c2cahacie ios iatacenscacaiabesadagenteadonansat E ents 1 LZ PES SAU ONS esne a AE E anions os atlennad ate tite mang anne eaten eco 2 2 MIS CANAUON i stosesnccmacautiaaaasectaendsasseussasdosexwodenacos Saeusandeasddoaseuseescunssvanaseqouendeus mwasdauendiacanees 4 2a Anstalline WebBPAM senii sae eas 5 22 Uninstalling WV SNA cet i pt et ta ph es eS ee as gna a ett aa gs 8 3e OPELI pia E S EE 10 Sh Startmng and Exiting WebBPAM 6 josecdessteicetancis eA RAE EA E RR 10 3 1 1 Controlling WebPAM with a Local Computer oo cccccccsceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 12 3 1 2 Controlling WebPAM with a Remote Computer ccccccccsceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 13 St EKUE WV CORAM oaeaeei ae an raa oamars a aa 13 32 WEbPAM Operation Window ceisnnananii nie e a a T swans wacmadeaancalien 14 Dio CONS ape a cand apiecwaaane eens saeascuaee cane anenccameeaa yeasee ees 16 34 Creatine or Changing User Account zieen e a 18 33 WWeletine User Ac COMUNE erao r E E E 20 3 6 Seve
51. nged Note that the password can be changed only by the owner When you log into the system with an account other than administrator only the self password and event setting may be changed 19 3 9 Deleting User Account 1 Log in WebPAM as an administrator admin 2 Click User Management in the Tree View and click the Delete tab appearing in the Management Window 3 Select the user to be deleted and click Delete The confirmation dialog box appears Click OK Microsoft Internet Explorer x 2 Ore you sure to delete 7 Now the user account is deleted IMPORTANT You cannot delete admin account sI 3 6 Several Settings and Information Review Clicking an icon on the Tree View allows the relevant information to be displayed on the Management View On the Management View you can see various information and set several features 3 6 1 Controller If you select the Controller icon on the Tree View the controller information appears in the Management Window This screen displays the BIOS and driver information and allows you to set several information including performance and check or delete the schedules of synchronization and media patrol Information tab The Information tab displays the controller information including the BIOS and driver versions Settings tab The Settings tab displays the settings on controller performance ation successful Information Settings Schedule Vie
52. odel Vendor ID of this HDD Port Number Port number of controller to which this HDD is connected Capacity Total capacity of this HDD GB Status Status of this HDD Functional The HDD operates normally Rebuilding The HDD is now rebuilt Synchronizing The HDD is now synchronized Initializing The HDD is now initialized Offline The HDD is in the set down failed status _94 Graphic View The Graphic View displays the information on each HDD graphically Split tab NOTES On WebPAM the capacity is calculated and displayed based on 1GB 1000MB 1MB 1000bytes Therefore the values displayed in the OS functions and in other applications which are based on 1 GB 1024MB 1MB 1024bytes are different from those in WebPAM If you put the cursor on the bar showing device information in the Physical Drive Overview the block information appears The information includes the name and status of the logical drive to which the block is assigned and background tasks See 3 7 Splitting or Merging Hard Disk Drive Merge tab See 3 7 Splitting or Merging Hard Disk Drive Media Patrol Schedule tab See 3 11 Media Patrol BSL tab The BSL tab displays the bad sector list of physical drives If an unrecoverable media error is found in a physical drive WebPAM registers the information in the bad sector list PPE Physical Drive View LBA Ox0000000009508cce Ox0000000009508cct Ox00000000
53. ogical drives in either of the above configurations 36 3 8 Creating Logical Drive IMPORTANT Create a logical drive in either of the following configurations m Do not split HDDs and create logical drives in HDDs m Split HDDs and create each of logical drives in an identical HDD having the same RAID level and capacity If logical drives are created in any configuration other than above the rebuild process cannot be done at the occurrence of a fault in a logical drive Accordingly always create logical drives in either of the above configurations 1 Click Logical Drive View in the Tree View 2 Click the Create tab in the Management Window a ne Logical Drive View information Create Delete Synchronization Schedule gt gt Ster 4 Selec DAIN T Select RAID Level Step 2 Select Drives Step 3 Assign a Name Step 4 Final Settings Redundant Array of Independent Disks RAID combines multiple physical drives to form one logical drive O RAID 0 Data striped across 2 or more drives for increased performance but no data protection RAID 1 Mirrored pairs of drives for data protection with increased read performance RAID 5 Striped parity on 3 or more drives ultimate data protection capacity and performance balance O RAID 10 Data mirrored then striped across 4 drives for double drive failure protection The RAID levels available now appear Select the RAID level to be
54. other options if necessary The options are described below F 7 Logical Drive View information Create Delete Synchronization Schedule Step 1 Select RAID Level F Step 2 Select Drives Final Settings Step 3 Assign a Name gt gt Step 4 Final Settings Confirm your choices Make any changes here Name Logical Drive 1 RAID Level RAID 1 Logical Drive Size Maximum Capacity Stripe Block Size Write Cache Auto Switch v Gigabyte Boundary Initialization None v Stripe Block Size Block size of logical drive The default is 64 KB Fixed to 64 KB in RAID 1 Write Cache Select any of AutoSwitch WriteThrough and WriteBack See Write cache mode described below Gigabyte Boundary Always set to None Initialization Select any of None Quick Initialization and Full Initialization See Types of initialization described below Grayed out in RAIDO Write cache mode The Write Cache Mode allows you to set the write cache mode of the logical drive For details see the description of Write Cache Mode in 3 6 5 Logical Drive Auto Switch If an additional battery is connected and charged enough the operation takes place in the write back mode The improvement of the writing performance can be expected When the battery power is insufficient the operation takes place in the write through mode The data integrity at power off can be expected Write Through If this mode is selected cache is not
55. ral Settings and Information Review nnseneeeseesseeresrerrsrrrrsrrrrrsrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrren 21 OL C OnO ea a T a aasnaean a eas 21 BO Physical Dive VIG W acussareatechaledcconansncsaraloucsvaled aeanenecuned ears acral em een 24 9 053 Physical ily Co tee seeeeatene sede ease os eee Oe 26 9 04 Logical Drive VIEW egion sce stun donasgsanenasteenncenian cectundena noma e nae ree 28 DOS Logical DIVE exact cred cease cuties T A lace chanedhe ines 30 BO STEIN C NOS UI Sess a rst esr cae atta ica ese ede cians ete ica arse teed ai ceo G daceteate ice tins 32 30 Spare DVE VIEW su cereieca doused iana E A E ES 32 IGS BIN Vona a E N E N A E ETE OE 33 zT SpPuitAL or Merome Hard Disk DIVecsiesran a aa a N 34 Al ASU HDD aieea a ee 34 Jka Meremo HDD aisir E E REE EE E Mamet tel gee Sete 36 JS Creatine Losical Driye emasa anna a a A aa ie iemecane eee 37 39 Delene Locical Dieese a a a a 41 IlO Synchronize Logical Driv esnireoniean n A AAAA 42 SLOT Sched lne Synchronization srai E TEE ARA 44 AA Media Paroles a a A 46 SLE Sehed hmne Media Pati lranesenisgato en A OO N 48 3 12 Rebuilding Losical Driveri A S 49 S13 Creatine or Delene Spare DIVE x vicctasasussoder csatesusns arane an a na aaaeei aai 54 Del ele Creant Spare DIV Ceisia N E N N 54 I2 Deleume Spare Dry esas ci cee a ace sece eee aa eee eee ae 55 JTA Pxpandine Logical DIVE asrasin E E ae acenaiatateand aannnan Caeauaat alles wiecnanaaes 56 FAEERE 58 3 16 Collecting Configura
56. rive 1 started lt al 7 Sista nek Controter 1 Wemine 20060330 10 33 37 SYNChronization is requested to perform on the logical drive Logical l Done Internet 43 NOTES The following message is registered when you first perform synchronization to the logical drive that has been created without initialization Synchronization is requested to perform on the logical drive LD name that has never been initialized This does not have any influences on synchronization processing At the end of synchronization always check the event log to see if any error occurs during synchronization If a media error occurs a message indicating the occurrence of the error appears before the message indicating that the synchronization has finished successfully fa synchronization task has been scheduled a rebuild task starts and the scheduled time comes during the rebuild the synchronization is skipped not executed for that time Ifasynchronization task has been scheduled and if the scheduled time comes while another synchronization task is being performed the scheduled synchronization is skipped not executed for that time Ifasynchronization task has been scheduled and if the scheduled time comes while the power is off the synchronization task will start after the power is turned on 3 10 1 Scheduling Synchronization Logical Drive View Information Create Delete Synchronization Schedule An au
57. s including performance Controller icon and scheduling of synchronization or media patrol can be confirmed or deleted pm Displays the information on all connected HDDs hysical Drive View icon hdl P Use these icons to schedule media patrol and a split or merge HDDs Physical Drive icon Displays the HDD connected to each channel SAG Tree View Management Window display Oo Ee Displays the information on all logical drives You Logical Drive View icon can create or delete a logical drive and schedule Displays the list of logical drives installed synchronization in this host l FREN On the Management Window displayed by Lo ical Drive eon E clicking each logical drive icon rebuild or Displays each logical drive synchronization can be done for the logical drive This feature is not supported Enclosure View icon PP Displays the information on spare drives Use this icon to create or delete spare Spare Drive View icon Displays spare fa Displays the battery status Battery icon Displays the battery Me i ae 3 4 Creating or Changing User Account Creating user account To create a user account follow the procedure below 1 Login WebPAM as an administrator admin 2 Click User Management in the Tree View and click the Create tab appearing in the Management Window User Management Information Create Delete User Creation User ID 4 20 character s
58. t 7 SuperTrak EX8350 Controller 1 Information 2006 03 30 10 41 01 Synchronization on logical drive Logical Drive 1 40 y Done a a Internet NOTES m At the end of media patrol always check the event log to see if any error occurs during media patrol If a media error occurs a message indicating the occurrence of the error appears before the message indicating that the media patrol has finished successfully Ifa media patrol task has been scheduled and if the scheduled time comes while another media patrol task is being performed the scheduled media patrol 1s skipped not executed for that time Ifa media patrol task has been scheduled and if the scheduled time comes while the power is off the media patrol task will start after the power is turned on SAT 3 11 1 Scheduling Media Patrol NOTE A media patrol task has been scheduled to be done on AMO 00 every Wednesday as a default To schedule routine media patrol follow the procedure below 1 Click the Physical Drive View icon in the Tree View 2 Click the Media Patrol Schedule tab in the Management Window 3 Select the Enable radio button in the schedule setting field below Schedule If the schedule setting field does not appear click the green triangle mark to the left of Scheduled to display the field Physical Drive View Information Split Merge Media Patrol Schedule BSL Schedule O Disable Enable
59. t appears Security Alert Driver Installation The driver software you are installing for Standby Hibernation Lock has not been properly signed with Authenticode TM technology Therefore Windows cannot tell if the software has been modified since it was published The publisher s identity cannot be verified because of a problem The third party INF does not contain digital signature information Do you still want to install this driver software The following message appears on the command prompt Driver Installed successfully Now the installation is completed 65 Uninstallation NOTE Some other software products require the system prevented from entering into the standby or hibernation state Before uninstalling Standby Hibernation Lock refer to the user s guides of the installed software products to check whether they require Standby Hibernation Lock The following software products may possibly require Standby Hibernation Lock Power Console Plus Adaptec Storage Manager Uninstall the Standby Hibernation Lock in the following procedure 1 Log on the system with an account having the administrator authority such as administrator Select Settings from the Start menu and click Control Panel Select Computer Management in Administrative Tools and click Device Manager The device list appears In the device list double click System Device and Standby Hibernation
60. that the rebuild is advanced appears in the Tree View Rebuild fails if more than 20 errors are found in read source disks As proper rebuild has been impossible at that time build the system again by using new disks The rebuild may be done again from the beginning by using the Restart button However it cannot be recommended If a fault occurs in a block of a logical drive having split configuration and rebuild is started with a spare drive the rebuild will also be started for another logical drive configuring the other block 50 4 Promise Array Manager Microsoft Internet Explorer File Edit Yiew Favorites Tools Help a sak H le Asah f Faoite A GS El https 127 0 0 1 8443 promise screen jsp i Go Links PROMISE EA English HideEvent Configuration Logout TECHNOLOGY INC Address Logical Drive information arene Information Settings Rebuild Synchronization Initialization Activation Rebuild Progress Pause Resume Restat i uf 2 User Management f E Host Management i pas grieg Rage ER sT3800134S E sT3s001 34s BD Hos728080PLA381 o E Hos72s0s0PLA381 S Logical Drive View Ted Logical Drive 1 Enclosure view Bonrevo E Total Rows 53 Cuert Page 1 i Source Severity Time y Description 1 SuperTrak EX8350 Controller 1 Information 2006 03 30 12 49 45 Rebuild on logical drive Logic
61. tings tab to enable automatic start of rebuild For details see the description of the Settings tab in 3 6 1 Controller 49 Z Promise Array Manager Microsoft Internet Explorer File Edit View Favorites Tools Help ar Ork amp EA LsSeach A Faoite A amp B Address https 127 0 0 1 8443 promise screen jsp PROMISE Language English v ShowEvent Configuration Logout TECHNOLOGY INC i Go Links c Promise WebPAM E Synchronization Initialization Activation nee 9 User Management Bh Host Management o Ai Utility Configuration JB Assigned Name Logical Drive 1 RAID Level RAID 1 y Capacity 79 93 GB FB SuperTrak Ex8350 S Status Critical em Controller 1 The block information ae N Background Activity Rebuilding 5 x of Physical Drive View Background Activity State Running Assigned to Logical Drive 1 gt Kfk ST3800134S ee 5 ee scam cae ray Rebuilding o E Hos728080PL 438 L Drive on Port 1 80 00 GB Capacty 73 s a E pos728080PLa3et Assigned LD 1 1 Used 78 23 06 S RE Logical Drive View 79 93 GB i ka Logical Drive 1 J Drive on Port 2 80 00 GB g Enclosure View Assigned LD 1 2 GE Spare Drive View 79 93 GB A Battery ER ER Bin to Logical Drive 1 BB spare a Invalid Ea Done 8 kJ Internet During rebuild the progress appears in the Information and Rebuild tabs of the Management Window Animation showing
62. tion Information eeeeeeeeeeeeeeseseennssererrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrren 59 Appendix A Preparation for Using WebPAM on Internet Explorer 00006 60 Appendix B Report Monitoring s ssssssassnnnunnunnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn ennnen 62 Appendix Standby Hibernation LOCK cccccccceeeeeeeceneeeeeeeneceesenssenesenesenesenesenees 65 1 Overview 1 1 Web based Promise Array Manager Web based Promise Array Manager hereafter abbreviated for WebPAM is a Web based application that locally or remotely manages N8103 89 N8103 101 or N8103 103 Disk Array Controller provided by Promise WebPAM only supports Microsoft Internet Explorer IE 6 0 or later as its browser After installing WebPAM the following features become available in the system Creating or deleting the following logical arrays on the graphical operation screen of the browser RAIDO data striping with one or more hard disk drives RAID1 data mirroring with two hard disk drives RAIDS 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 m Checking consistency among logical drives synchronization Checking media error in disks media patrol Auto recovering degraded logical drives if entered into the state rebuild To manage N8103 89 N8103 101 or N8103 103 remotely from the mana
63. tion can be checked by the Schedule tab of the Controller icon See 3 6 1 Controller for details Synchronization is started at the defined time and repeated at the interval entered in step 3 To cancel delete the scheduling click the Schedule tab of Controller click the Select checkbox you want to delete and click Delete NOTE Synchronization can be done for a specific logical drive independently Click the Logical Drive icon in the Tree View and schedule synchronization in the Synchronization tab _ 45 3 11 Media Patrol The media patrol reads data in the following HDDs entirely As HDDs can be deteriorated with age faults in the HDDs may be detected only when they are accessed By reading data in HDDs routinely the media patrol enables such faults to be detected as early as possible This enables the early appropriate action HDDs configuring RAID HDDs set to spares IMPORTANT Some access may occur during media patrol Then the media patrol 1s interrupted temporarily until the access 1s completed Accordingly the media patrol can hardly cause the system performance to be decreased Because media patrol has lower priority than other tasks in the system it is recommended to use the media patrol in the environment where your system is The media patrol is not done for HDDs which are not configured in logical drives Specify HDDs not configured as spare disks previously The media patrol can detect HDD medi
64. tomated process of checking data and parity Policy Fix v Scheduled O Disable Enable O By Day Start At 0 v 0 v By Week stat atO 0 Yl Every Sunday v By Month start at 5 0 Mlonthe 1st Example 10 30 hhimm l To schedule routine synchronization follow the procedure below 1 Click the Logical Drive View icon in the Tree View 2 Click the Synchronization Schedule tab in the Management Window 44 3 Select Fix or Redundancy Check from the Policy pull down menu Fix If an inconsistency error is detected data is repaired from the other mating disk configuring the RAID Redundancy Check If an inconsistency error is detected the process is continued without repair of the error 4 Select the Enable radio button in the schedule setting field below Scheduled If the schedule setting field does not appear click the green triangle mark to the left of Scheduled to display the field 9 Set the time at which the synchronization is started The details of the settings are as follows By Day Synchronization is started at the defined time everyday By Week Synchronization is started on the defined day of every week By Month Synchronization is started on the defined date every month 6 Ifthe setting is completed click Schedule After the scheduling Scheduled Successfully appears at the top of the tab The scheduling is completed in the above procedure The scheduled synchroniza
65. used in writing recommended Write Back If this mode is selected cache is always used in writing It is expected that the setting improves writing performance However if the battery power is insufficient the data integrity at power off is rather low Thus it cannot be recommended to use this mode Be e e Types of initialization None Does not perform initialization processing for the logical drive recommended Quick Initialization Initializes the master boot sectors only Full Initialization Performs initialization processing for the logical drive entirely and maintain the consistency of the logical drive 6 After the selections click Finish The logical drive is created completely The icon of the created logical drive is added to the Tree View NOTE When Full Initialization is selected the initialization is started after the logical drive is created The status of the initialization can be checked on the Initialization tab of the created logical drive The Initialization tab is enabled during the initialization only 40 3 9 Deleting Logical Drive IMPORTANT Never delete the logical drive in which the Windows file system is installed Before deleting a logical drive make sure that the Windows file system is not installed in the logical drive 1 Click Logical Drive View in the Tree View 2 Click the Delete tab in the Management Window T E a a Log ical Drive Vi ew information Cr
66. w Change Controller Parameter Rebuild Rate O Low Medium High Media Patrol Rate E Low Medium High Migration Expansion Rate O Lowy E Medium C High Initialization Fate OLow Medium High Synchronization Rate O Low medium High Automatic Rebuild Status Enable C Disable Automatic Rebuild Policy Free amp Spare C Spare Buzzer Status E Enable Disable SMART Status Enable Disable 5 M8 FOT Check Polling Interval E 20 M kecondrs Battery Mot Detected Event Enable Disable Submit The above image indicates the default settings of WebPAM _91 Rebuild Rate Set the priority of the rebuild process Media Patrol Rate Set the priority of the media patrol process Migration Expansion Rate Set the priority of the expansion process Attention Migration Expansion feature is supported only with N8103 89 Initialization Rate Set the priority of logical drive initialization Synchronization Rate Set the priority of the synchronization Automatic Rebuild Status Set whether the automatic rebuild is enabled or disabled Attention If there is no spare drive and free HDDs attached to the controller please be sure to set Auto Rebuild Status to Disable If Enable you will not able to see the Port ID of the failed HDD in its event message when a logical drive goes degraded Automatic Rebuild Policy If the automatic rebuild is enabled and a logical drive is degraded the operation varies depending on t
67. which this HDD is connected s9 Drive Information Drive Status Status of this HDD Functional The HDD operates normally Rebuilding The HDD is now rebuilt synchronizing The HDD is now synchronized Initializing The HDD is now initialized Offline The HDD is in the set down failed status Background Activity Status of background task of this HDD Idle No background task Patrolling Media patrol is now executed Patrol Paused Media patrol is now paused Write cache status of this HDD Graphic View The Graphic View displays the information on each HDD graphically Settings tab Physical Drive Information Operation successful information Settings Media Patrol BSL Locate Drive View Change Physical Drive Parameters Write Cache Enabled O Enable Disable NCQ Enabled Enable Disable Submit Reset Write Cache Enabled Set the Write Cache mode of the HDD to Enable or Disable The default value is Disable NCQ TCQ Enabled This option is displayed only when the HDD is compatible with NCQ or TCQ feature Set the NCQ TCQ option to Enable or Disable The default value is Enable Attention If your server is either of the followings please be sure to read the description of Settings tab of 3 6 3 Physical Drive and change the NCQ Enable option setting if required 110Ej EXPRESSBUILDER Ver4 140x N 110Gc EXPRESSBUILDER Ver4 135x N x any alphabet

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