ASRock Z87 Extreme11/ac LSI Mega RAID Storage Manager Guide - Page 84

Monitoring Enclosures, Monitoring Battery Backup Units

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Note: You can change the Read Policy, Write Policy, and other virtual drive properties by selecting the virtual drive icon and then selecting Go To->Virtual Drive ->Set Virtual Drive Properties in the menu bar. If the drives in the virtual drive are in a disk enclosure, you can identify them by making their LEDs blink. To identify the drives, follow these steps: 1. Click the virtual drive icon in the left panel. 2. Either select Go To->Virtual Drive->Start Locating Virtual Drive, or right-click a virtual drive and select Start Locating Virtual Drive from the menu. The LEDs on the drives in the virtual drive start blinking (except for the hot spare drives). 3. To stop the LEDs from blinking, select Go To->Virtual Drive->Stop Locating Virtual Drive or right-click a virtual drive and select Stop Locating Virtual Drive from the menu. Monitoring Enclosures When the MegaRAID Storage Manager software is running, you can see the status of all enclosures connected to the server by selecting the Physical tab in the left panel. If an enclosure is operating normally, the icon looks like this: . If an enclosure is not functioning normally-for example, if a fan has failed-an orange, yellow, or red circle appears to the right of the icon. Information about the enclosure appears in the right panel when you select the Properties tab on the main menu screen. A graphical display of enclosure information appears when you select the Graphical View tab. The display in the center of the screen shows how many slots of the enclosure are actually populated by the drives and the lights on the drives show the drive status. The information on the right shows you the status of the temperature sensors, fans, and power supplies in the enclosure. To view the enclosure properties, in the physical view click on the Enclosure node. The Enclosure Properties are displayed, as shown in the following figure. Figure 65 Enclosure Properties Monitoring Battery Backup Units When the MegaRAID Storage Manager software is running, you can monitor the status of all of the BBUs connected to controllers in the server. If a BBU is operating normally, the icon looks like this . If a BBU fails, a red dot appears next to the icon. Page 84 DB09-000202-05 37857-02 Monitoring Controllers and Its Attached Devices Rev. F - May 2011 Copyright © 2011 by LSI Corporation. All rights reserved.

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Monitoring Controllers and Its Attached Devices
DB09-000202-05 37857-02
Rev. F - May 2011
Copyright © 2011 by LSI Corporation. All rights reserved.
Note:
You can change the Read Policy, Write Policy, and other virtual drive properties by
selecting the virtual drive icon and then selecting
Go To->Virtual Drive ->Set Virtual
Drive Properties
in the menu bar.
If the drives in the virtual drive are in a disk enclosure, you can identify them by making their LEDs
blink. To identify the drives, follow these steps:
1.
Click the virtual drive icon in the left panel.
2.
Either select
Go To->Virtual Drive->Start Locating Virtual Drive,
or right-click a virtual drive
and select
Start Locating Virtual Drive
from the menu.
The LEDs on the drives in the virtual drive start blinking (except for the hot spare drives).
3.
To stop the LEDs from blinking, select
Go To->Virtual Drive->Stop Locating Virtual Drive
or right-click a virtual drive and select
Stop Locating Virtual Drive
from the menu.
Monitoring Enclosures
When the MegaRAID Storage Manager software is running, you can see the status of all
enclosures connected to the server by selecting the
Physical
tab in the left panel. If an enclosure
is operating normally, the icon looks like this:
. If an enclosure is not functioning normally—for
example, if a fan has failed—an orange, yellow, or red circle appears to the right of the icon.
Information about the enclosure appears in the right panel when you select the
Properties
tab on
the main menu screen. A graphical display of enclosure information appears when you select the
Graphical View
tab.
The display in the center of the screen shows how many slots of the enclosure are actually
populated by the drives and the lights on the drives show the drive status. The information on the
right shows you the status of the temperature sensors, fans, and power supplies in the enclosure.
To view the enclosure properties, in the physical view click on the
Enclosure
node. The
Enclosure Properties
are displayed, as shown in the following figure.
Figure 65
Enclosure Properties
Monitoring Battery Backup Units
When the MegaRAID Storage Manager software is running, you can monitor the status of all of
the BBUs connected to controllers in the server. If a BBU is operating normally, the icon looks like
this
. If a BBU fails, a red dot appears next to the icon.