Areca ARC-1222 - 6 Web Browser-Based Configuration; Start-Up Mcraid Storage Manager

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WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION
6. Web Browser-based Conguration
Before using the rmware-based browser McRAID storage manager, do
the initial setup and installation of this product. If you need to boot up
the operating system from a RAID volume set, you must rst create a
RAID volume by using McBIOS RAID manager. Please refer to section
3.3 Using Quick Volume /Raid Setup Conguration for information on
creating this initial volume set.
The McRAID storage manager is rmware-based utility, which is acces-
sible via the web browser installed on your operating system.The web
browser-based McRAID storage manager is a HTML-based application,
which utilizes the browser (IE, Netscape and Mozilla etc) installed on
your monitor station.
It can be accessed through the In-Band PCIe bus or Out-of-Band LAN
port. The In-Band method via archttp proxy server to launch the web
browser-based McRAID storage manager. The rmware-embedded web
browser-based McRAID storage manager allows local or remote to ac-
cess it from any standard internet browser via a LAN or WAN with no
software or patches required. The rmware contains SMTP manager
monitors all system events and user can select either single or multiple
user notications to be sent via LAN with “Plain English” e-mails. The
rmware-embedded SNMP agent allows remote to monitor events via
LAN with no SNMP agent required.
• Create raid set
• Expand raid set
• Dene volume set
• Add physical drive
• Modify volume set
• Modify RAID level/stripe size
• Dene pass-through disk drives
• Modify system function
• Update rmware
• Designate drives as hot spares
6.1 Start-up McRAID Storage Manager
With the McRAID storage manager, you can locally manage a
system containing a SAS RAID controller that has Windows, Linux