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Monitoring Options, Checking Activity in Your Storage Space, Event Viewer, Status Icons

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Chapter 8: Monitoring Your Storage Space ● 91 Monitoring Options Adaptec Storage Manager provides many ways to monitor the status of your storage space: ● Event Viewer-The main window of Adaptec Storage Manager includes an Event Viewer that provides at-a-glance status information about activity occurring in your storage space. (See the following section.) ● Status Icons-Three basic icons (information, warning, and error) appear in the Event Viewer and in the main Adaptec Storage Manager window to help you quickly identify problems. (See page 92.) ● Notification Manager and Email Notification Manager-Notification utilities help you monitor these activities on local and remote systems (see page 93 and page 99): ● Progress of scheduled tasks, such as logical drive verifications. ● Changes in the status of the physical components of your storage space, such as disk drives. ● Changes to the local system, such as the expansion of a logical drive expansion or the creation of a hot spare. ● Audible Alarm-A series of beeps sounds whenever a serious event occurs on your storage space. (See page 107.) ● Properties Button-You can check the status of any component in your storage space by using the Properties button. (See page 121.) Checking Activity in Your Storage Space From your local system, you can see status information and messages about the activity (or events) occurring in your storage space by looking at the Event Viewer, which displays a log of events. Status is indicated by an icon in the left-hand column, as shown in the following figure. (The icons are described in What Do the Status Icons Mean? on page 92.) Double-click any event to see more details in an easier-to-read format. Click Next to see the next event in the list. Double-click to view event details. You can monitor activity on, and the status of, remote systems from the local system by using Adaptec Storage Manager's two notification utilities to broadcast messages-the Notification Manager (see page 93) and the Email Notification Manager (see page 99).

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Chapter 8: Monitoring Your Storage Space
●
91
Monitoring Options
Adaptec Storage Manager provides many ways to monitor the status of your storage space:
●
Event Viewer
—The main window of Adaptec Storage Manager includes an Event Viewer
that provides at-a-glance status information about activity occurring in your storage space.
(See the following section.)
●
Status Icons
—Three basic icons (information, warning, and error) appear in the Event
Viewer and in the main Adaptec Storage Manager window to help you quickly identify
problems. (See
page 92
.)
●
Notification Manager
and
Email Notification Manager
—Notification utilities help you
monitor these activities on local and remote systems (see
page 93
and
page 99
):
●
Progress of scheduled tasks, such as logical drive verifications.
●
Changes in the status of the physical components of your storage space, such as disk
drives.
●
Changes to the local system, such as the expansion of a logical drive expansion or the
creation of a hot spare.
●
Audible Alarm
—A series of beeps sounds whenever a serious event occurs on your storage
space. (See
page 107
.)
●
Properties Button
—You can check the status of any component in your storage space by
using the Properties button. (See
page 121
.)
Checking Activity in Your Storage Space
From your local system, you can see status information and messages about the activity (or
events
) occurring in your storage space by looking at the Event Viewer, which displays a log of
events. Status is indicated by an icon in the left-hand column, as shown in the following figure.
(The icons are described in
What Do the Status Icons Mean?
on page 92
.)
Double-click any event to see more details in an easier-to-read format. Click
Next
to see the
next event in the list.
You can monitor activity on, and the status of, remote systems from the local system by using
Adaptec Storage Manager’s two notification utilities to broadcast messages—the Notification
Manager (see
page 93
) and the Email Notification Manager (see
page 99
).
Double-click to view event
details.