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# Controller Dashboard

You can perform controller related actions and view all the information pertaining to a controller from the Controller dashboard. The following figure and table describe this page.

Some of the features listed below may not be applicable to all the controllers. For example, some controllers support the RAID feature, and some controllers do not support it. For a comprehensive list of features that are supported for a specific controller, see LSI Storage Authority Feature Comparison Matrix.

Figure 1. Controller Dashboard

Table 1. Controller Dashboard Description
Callout | Description
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| Controller Summary - Displays the name of the MegaRAID controller card. The color-coded icons indicate the status of the controller card. Displays the basic controller properties, such as the controller serial number, vendor ID, SAS address, driver version, device ID, host interface, and so on. Click the icon to view the advanced properties of the controller, such as the NVRAM details, data protection information properties, BIOS version, firmware properties, drive security properties, emergency spare properties, CacheCade properties, and so on.
| Controller Actions - Lets you perform the following actions: Personality Management Create configuration Clear configuration Enable or disable an alarm Update the controller firmware Import or clear foreign configurations View Premium features View event log
| Controller Views - Displays all of the configured drive groups, virtual drives, and physical drives associated with the selected controller card. It also displays the hardware, such as enclosures, backplanes, and the CacheVault associated with the controller. All these views are displayed as tabs. Click the icon to view to view detailed information about the device. For example, click a drive group to view the associated virtual drives and physical drives. Select any device from the expanded view to perform relevant actions and view device properties.