HP P3410A HP NetRAID Series User Guide - Page 43

Save Your Configuration and Initialize

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Chapter 2 HP NetRAID Assistant Save Your Configuration and Initialize In this step you will do the following: • Save the configuration to a binary file. • Print a copy of the configuration. • Initialize the logical drives. Save the Configuration to a File To save the configuration to a binary file: 1. Choose Save from the Configuration menu. The Save Configuration dialog box appears. 2. Type the file name and directories to be used to save the configuration. The file type should be *.cfg. 3. Click Save to save the configuration to the designated file. NOTE Be sure to save your adapter configuration to a file. This information is essential when replacing a failed adapter. Print Configuration To print a copy of the configuration: 1. Choose Print from the Configuration menu. 2. File the printed copy of your configuration file in a safe place. It will help you understand your configuration, replace a failed adapter, or communicate with HP Customer Support. Configure Any Other Adapters To configure another adapter from the HP NetRAID Assistant window: 1. Click the Adapter pull-down list and select the adapter. 2. Clear its configuration by choosing Clear Configuration from the Configuration menu. Click OK to the warning prompts. 3. Check the Rebuild Rate by choosing Rebuild Rate from the Adapter menu and reset the rate if necessary. 4. If global hot spares are needed, drag the desired Ready physical drives into the global hot spare pool. 37

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Chapter 2
HP NetRAID Assistant
37
Save Your Configuration and Initialize
In this step you will do the following:
Save the configuration to a binary file.
Print a copy of the configuration.
Initialize the logical drives.
Save the Configuration to a File
To save the configuration to a binary file:
1.
Choose
Save
from the Configuration menu. The Save Configuration dialog
box appears.
2.
Type the file name and directories to be used to save the configuration. The
file type should be
*.cfg
.
3.
Click
Save
to save the configuration to the designated file.
NOTE
Be sure to save your adapter configuration to a file. This
information is essential when replacing a failed adapter.
Print Configuration
To print a copy of the configuration:
1.
Choose
Print
from the Configuration menu.
2.
File the printed copy of your configuration file in a safe place. It will help
you understand your configuration, replace a failed adapter, or
communicate with HP Customer Support.
Configure Any Other Adapters
To configure another adapter from the HP NetRAID Assistant window:
1.
Click the
Adapter
pull-down list and select the adapter.
2.
Clear its configuration by choosing
Clear Configuration
from the
Configuration menu. Click
OK
to the warning prompts.
3.
Check the Rebuild Rate by choosing
Rebuild Rate
from the Adapter menu
and reset the rate if necessary.
4.
If global hot spares are needed, drag the desired Ready physical drives into
the global hot spare pool.