Chapter 3: Management with the Promise Utility
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Managing Background Activities
Background activity management includes:
• Viewing Current Background Activities (page 29)
• Viewing Scheduled Background Activities (page 30)
• Adding a Scheduled Background Activity (page 30)
• Changing a Background Activity Schedule (page 31)
• Enabling or Disabling a Scheduled Background Activity (page 32)
• Deleting a Scheduled Background Activity (page 32)
• Media Patrol (page 32)
• Redundancy Check (page 33)
• Initialization (page 33)
• Rebuild (page 34)
• Migration (page 35)
• PDM (page 35)
• Transition (page 36)
• Synchronization (page 37)
Background activities perform a variety of preventive and remedial functions on
your physical drives, disk arrays, logical drives, and other components.
You can run a background activity immediately or schedule it to run at a later
time. Scheduling options are described below.
Setting options for each activity are listed after the scheduling options. These
settings determine how the background activity affects I/O performance.
Viewing Current Background Activities
To view a list of background activities, from the Admin menu, choose
Background Activities.
The list of background appears.
• Media Patrol – See page 32
• Redundancy Check – See page 33
• Rebuild – See page 34
• Migration – See page 35
• PDM – See page 35
• Transition – See page 36
• Synchronization – See page 37
Currently running activities show a progress bar.
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