3ware Tools for Configuration and Management

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3ware Tools for Configuration and Management
3ware software tools let you easily configure the drives attached to your 3ware RAID controller, specifying which drives you should use together as a RAID unit and the type of RAID configuration that you want, and designating hot spares for use if a drive degrades.
3ware provides the following tools for use in configuring and managing units attached to the 3ware controller:

| 3BM (3ware BIOS Manager)

3BM is a BIOS-level tool available on PC-based systems that you can use to create, delete, and maintain disk arrays, rebuild arrays, designate hot spares, and set controller policies. 3BM is the tool most frequently used to configure units immediately after installation of the controller, but also can be used after installation to maintain the controller and associated drives. (3BM is not available for Mac OS X.)
For general information about working with 3BM, see Chapter 5, “3ware BIOS Manager” in 3ware SATA+SAS RAID Controller Card Software Users Guide, Version 10.02.

| 3DM2 (3ware Disk Manager)

3DM2 provides browser-based software that you can use to create, delete, and maintain disk arrays, rebuild arrays, designate hot spares, and set controller policies. 3DM2 is a daemon (under FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X, OpenSolaris, and VMware) and a service (under Windows) that runs in the background on the controller’s host system. You can access 3DM2 through a web browser to provide ongoing monitoring and administration of the controller and associated drives. You can use 3DM2 locally (on the system that contains the 9750) or remotely (on a system connected via a network to the system containing the 9750).
3DM2 is the current version of the 3ware Disk Manager. Throughout this documentation, it is referred to interchangeably as 3DM and 3DM2.

| 3ware Alert Utility (WinAVAlarm)

The 3ware Alert Utility for Windows runs on the system in which the 3ware RAID controller is installed and provides direct notification by a pop-up message and audio alarm when events occur. You can configure this unit to specify the type of events that should generate these notifications. For details, see Using the Alert Utility Under Windows.

| 3ware CLI (Command Line Interface)

The 3ware CLI provides the functionality available in 3DM2 through a command line interface. CLI also provides advanced functions not included in 3DM2 such as, drive performance monitoring (DPM). You can view unit status and version information and perform maintenance functions such as adding or removing drives, and reconfiguring RAID units online. You also can use it to remotely administer controllers in a system.
The 3ware CLI is described in 3ware SATA+SAS RAID Controller Card CLI Guide, Version 10.2 and in the 3ware HTML Bookshelf.

Related Topics
  System Requirements
  Understanding RAID Concepts and Levels
  Monitoring, Maintenance, and Troubleshooting Features

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