General Options
General Options
You can use the General Options
screen to enable, disable, or reset the alarm, or to set the
polling options.
When you select General Options from the Options
pull-down menu, a screen similar to the following appears.
Enabling, Disabling, or Resetting the Alarm: The alarm
alerts you if any of the following conditions occur:
- A DDD hard disk drive has been detected
- A Predictive Failure Analysis (PFA) event has occurred
- A ServeRAID controller is not responding
To enable or disable the alarm, click on the box for
Disable Alarm on the General Options screen. Placing a
check in the box disables the alarm, removing the check
enables the alarm.
To reset the alarm, click on the 
icon
or click on Reset Alarm on the General Options menu.
Resetting the alarm turns off the alarm for the current failure. It does not
disable the feature.
Polling Options You can use the General Options screen to define
how often the ServeRAID controller will
poll, or check the server for any changes that might have
occurred in the server (such as a rebuild or a drive
entering the defunct (DDD) state). You can set a time
interval of from five to 60 seconds. The default time
interval setting is five seconds.
The following events are polled for:
- Rebuild started
- Rebuild completed
- Synchronization started
- Synchronization completed
- Migration started
- Migration completed
- PFA event detected
- Dead drive detected
- ServeRAID controller not responding to commands
Netfinity Alert Options: Netfinity alerts allow system
administrators who are using the Netfinity Manager to
configure the ServeRAID Administration and Monitoring
utility program, to notify the Netfinity Alert Manager of
various activities occurring on the server.
To configure the settings for the Netfinity alerts:
- Open the Options pull-down menu.
- Click on Alert Options.
- Click on Netfinity Alerts.
A screen similar to the following appears.
- To enable all of the Netfinity alerts, click on the check box next to
Enable Netfinity Alerts.
- To disable any of the Netfinity alerts:
- Verify that there is a check in the check box next to Enable Netfinity Alerts.
- Click on the check box next to the specific alert or alerts that you want to disable.
- to test the Netfinity alerts, click on the Send Test Alert button. This
will send a Netfinity alert and test message to the Netfinity Alert Manager.
If Netfinity alerts are enabled, the ServeRAID controller relays three types of messages to the Netfinity Alert Manager:
Information messages
- Rebuild started
- Rebuild completed
- Synchronization started
- Synchronization completed
- Migration started
- Migration completed
Warning messages
Critical messages
- Dead drive detected
- ServeRAID controller not responding to commands
By knowing what these types of messages are, the system
administrator can then configure Netfinity Manager with
instructions for monitoring the server configuration and
specifying the appropriate action to take if an alert is
issued. For example, the system administrator can
program Netfinity Manager to dial out through a modem to
a specified phone number if a defunct drive is detected on
any server across the network.
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