Adaptec 2169400-R User Guide - Page 58

Getting Started Step 5: Customizing Adaptec Storage Manager ● 58 Logging In to Remote Systems If multiple systems on your network are in your storage space, you can use Adaptec Storage Manager to monitor and manage all of them from one system. The system that you're working on is called the local system. All other systems in your storage space are remote systems. 'Local' and 'remote' are relative terms, as shown in the following figure-when you are working on system A (local system), system B is a remote system; when you are working on system B (local system), system A is a remote system. A B Adaptec Storage Manager A Local logged in to remote Adaptec Storage Manager or Agent B Adaptec Storage Manager or Agent Local logged in to remote Adaptec Storage Manager To manage remote systems from the local system, you log in to them. (Adaptec Storage Manager encrypts the user name and password of a remote system during log-in.) Adaptec Storage Manager or the Adaptec Storage Manager Agent (see page 30) must be running on the remote system before you can log in to it. When you log in to a remote system, you add that system to the Enterprise View of Adaptec Storage Manager, as shown in this example. Local System Remote System Once you have logged in to a remote system, it is automatically included in the Enterprise View each time you start Adaptec Storage Manager from the local system. You can work with its controllers, disk drives, and logical drives as if they were part of your local system. You must log in with the proper permission level to complete the tasks you wish to perform. (See Understanding Permission Levels on page 32 for more information.)