Adaptec 2005S User Guide - Page 18

Chapter 2: Introduction to Adaptec Storage Manager ● 17 About Adaptec Storage Manager Adaptec Storage Manager is a software application that helps you build a storage space for your online data, using Adaptec RAID controllers and disk drives. With Adaptec Storage Manager, you can group disk drives into logical drives and build in redundancy to protect your data and improve system performance. You can also use Adaptec Storage Manager to monitor and manage all the controllers and disk drives in your storage space from a single location. About the Adaptec Storage Manager Agent When Adaptec Storage Manager is installed on a computer, the Adaptec Storage Manager agent is also installed automatically. The agent is like a service that keeps your storage space running. It's designed to run in the background, without user intervention, and its job is to monitor and manage system health, event notifications, tasks schedules, and other on-going processes on that system. It sends notices when tasks are completed successfully, and sounds an alarm when errors or failures occur on that system. The agent uses less memory than the full application. If your storage space includes systems that won't be connected to monitors (and therefore won't require the user interface described in this Guide), you can choose to run the agent only on those systems instead of the full application (see page 33). You may want to do this if system resources are limited, or if you want more system resources available for other tasks. You can manage and monitor systems running the agent only by logging into them as remote systems (see page 61). You can also customize the agent settings to suit your storage space requirements (see page 67).