Adaptec 2169400-R User Guide - Page 43

Getting Started Step 3: Exploring Adaptec Storage Manager ● 43 Click the Relative Size Capacity View button to see the size capacities of your disk drives relative to each other. A full length bar is displayed for the largest disk drive. Proportionally shorter bars are displayed for other disk drives. Relative Size Capacity View button Checking System Status Adaptec Storage Manager includes an Event Viewer for at-a-glance system and event status information. The Event Viewer provides status information and messages about activity (or events) occurring in your storage space. Double-click any event to see more information in an easier-to-read format. Warning- and Error-level icons, shown at right, appear next to components (such as systems and logical drives) affected by a failure or error, creating a trail, or rapid fault isolation, that helps you identify the source of a problem when it occurs. See Identifying a Failed or Failing Component on page 134 for more information. Enclosure Warning Disk Drive Error If your storage space includes a controller with a temperature sensor, or an enclosure with an enclosure management device, such as a SCSI Accessed Fault-Tolerant Enclosure (SAF-TE) processor, temperature, fan, and power module status is displayed by status icons in the Physical Device view, as shown in the next figure. These status icons change color to indicate status (see page 106). Status Icons Power Module Status Temperature Status Fan Status For more information, see Monitoring Your Storage Space on page 90. Note: By default, all Warning- and Error-level events activate an audible alarm. See Silencing and Testing the Audible Alarm on page 107 for more information.