Areca ARC-1280ML - 6 Web Browser-Based Configuration; Start-Up Mcraid Storage Manager

WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION
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6. Web Browser-based Conguration
Before using the McRAID rmware-based browser utility, do the ini-
tial 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 Storage 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 ac-
cessible via the 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 PCI-X/PCIe bus or Out-of-Band
ethernet port. The In-Band method via archttp proxy server to launch
the Web Browser-based McRAID Storage Manager. The rmware-em-
bedded Web Browser-based McRAID storage manager allows local
or remote to access 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 Eng-
lish” 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 sys-
tem containing a SATA RAID controller that has Windows or Linux