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8 Maintaining Physical Devices
Viewing Component Properties....................................................................... 87
Blinking a Component...................................................................................... 87
Working with Failed or Failing Disk Drives.................................................... 88
Initializing and Erasing Disk Drives................................................................. 88
Working with Solid State Drives ...................................................................... 90
Working with Controllers ................................................................................ 91
Testing and Silencing System and Enclosure Alarms...................................... 94
Updating the Controller BIOS and Firmware................................................. 97
Updating the Disk Drive Firmware.................................................................. 98
9 Monitoring Status and Activity
Monitoring Options........................................................................................ 103
Checking Status from the Main Window ..................................................... 103
Notifying Users by Event Log Message About Status and Activity .............. 106
Notifying Users by Email About Status and Activity ................................... 111
Notifying Users by SNMP Trap About Status and Activity.......................... 116
Notifying All Users About Status and Activity .............................................. 117
Changing an Operating System’s Event Log Setting..................................... 118
Logging Statistics for Remote Analysis .......................................................... 119
10 Updating and Customizing Adaptec Storage Manager
Updating Adaptec Storage Manager .............................................................. 125
Adding Enhanced Features ............................................................................ 125
Setting Preferences and Changing Views....................................................... 125
Managing Remote Systems............................................................................. 127
Working with Display Groups ....................................................................... 131
11 Solving Problems
General Troubleshooting Tips ....................................................................... 136
Identifying a Failed or Failing Component ................................................... 136
Stopping the Creation of a New Logical Drive.............................................. 137
Recovering from a Disk Drive Failure ........................................................... 137
Rebuilding Logical Drives............................................................................... 140
Solving Notification Problems ....................................................................... 141
Creating a Support Archive File ..................................................................... 141
Understanding Error and Warning Messages ............................................... 142
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