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What’s the difference between...?, Adaptec Storage Manager and the Agent?

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Appendix A: Quick Answers to Common Questions... ● 149 What's the difference between...? Adaptec Storage Manager and the Agent? Adaptec Storage Manager is the full software application, including the user interface (windows, menus) described in this User's Guide. It helps you build and maintain the logical drives, controllers, and disk drives that make up your storage space. The Agent is like a service that keeps your storage space running. Its job is to monitor system health and manage event notifications, tasks schedules, and other on-going processes on each system in your storage space. The Agent can run independently of the full application. See About Adaptec Storage Manager on page 17 for more information. Internal RAID and External RAID branches of the Enterprise View? The Internal RAID branch helps you manage the local and remote systems in your storage space that have internal (or direct-attached) storage-a RAID controller and disk drives residing inside or directly attached to the system. Internal RAID storage can only be accessed by the system to which it is attached. This User's Guide addresses the internal RAID branch only. Local system with RAID OR Server with RAID Local system controller and disk controller and disk drives installed drives installed The External RAID branch helps you set up and manage external storage-one or more RAID controllers and multiple disk drives that reside in a server, and which is shared among multiple systems on a LAN. For more information, refer to the Adaptec Web site at www.adaptec.com. Storage space resides here, not at individual systems. LAN Server with RAID controller and disk drives installed Local System Event notifications, email notifications, and event alerts? Event notifications (also called logged notifications) are messages about events on one system that are sent to the Event Viewer of another system in your storage space. (See page 93.) Email notifications are email messages about events on a system in your storage space that are sent to specified users. (See page 99.) Event alerts are pop-up messages or console messages about all types of events on a specific system, which are broadcast to all the users who are logged into your storage space. (See page 105.)

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Appendix A: Quick Answers to Common Questions...
●
149
What’s the difference between...?
Adaptec Storage Manager and the Agent?
Adaptec Storage Manager is the full software application, including the user interface
(windows, menus) described in this
User’s Guide
. It helps you build and maintain the logical
drives, controllers, and disk drives that make up your storage space.
The Agent is like a service that keeps your storage space running. Its job is to monitor system
health and manage event notifications, tasks schedules, and other on-going processes on each
system in your storage space. The Agent can run independently of the full application.
See
About Adaptec Storage Manager
on page 17
for more information.
Internal RAID and External RAID branches of the Enterprise View?
The Internal RAID branch helps you manage the local and remote systems in your storage
space that have
internal
(or
direct-attached
) storage—a RAID controller and disk drives
residing inside or directly attached to the system. Internal RAID storage can only be accessed by
the system to which it is attached. This
User’s Guide
addresses the internal RAID branch only.
The External RAID branch helps you set up and manage
external
storage—one or more RAID
controllers and multiple disk drives that reside in a server, and which is shared among multiple
systems on a LAN. For more information, refer to the Adaptec Web site at
www.adaptec.com
.
Event notifications, email notifications, and event alerts?
Event notifications (also called logged notifications) are messages about events on one system
that are sent to the Event Viewer of another system in your storage space.
(See
page 93
.)
Email notifications are email messages about events on a system in your storage space that are
sent to specified users.
(See
page 99
.)
Event alerts are pop-up messages or console messages about all types of events on a specific system,
which are broadcast to all the users who are logged into your storage space. (See
page 105
.)
OR
Local system with RAID
controller and disk
drives installed
Local system
Server with RAID
controller and disk
drives installed
Storage space resides here,
not at individual systems
.
Server with RAID controller
and disk drives installed
Local System
LAN