Monitoring Controllers and Their Attached Devices

> Monitoring Controllers and Their Attached Devices

> Alert Delivery Methods
> Monitoring User Events
> Monitoring the Controllers
> Monitoring Drives
> Monitoring Virtual Drives
> Monitoring Enclosures
> Monitoring the SuperCap Units
> Monitoring the SuperCap Unit
> Monitoring Rebuilds and Other Processes

> This chapter explains how to use the MegaRAID Storage Manager software to monitor the status of drives, virtual drives, and other storage devices.

> The MegaRAID Storage Manager software enables you to monitor the activity of all the controllers present in the system and the devices attached to them.

> The MegaRAID Storage Manager software does a background check every one hour to verify if the controller and the system time are in sync. If the time difference between the controller and the system is more than 90 seconds, the MegaRAID Storage Manager software synchronizes the time so that the controller time and the system time are in synchronization.

> When you perform an operation on devices (such as the creation of a new virtual drive) or when devices automatically go from an optimal state to a different state (such as a created virtual drive goes to a degraded state or a SuperCap goes bad), the MegaRAID Storage Manager software gets those events from the controller and gives a notification to you, by using different alert delivery methods.

> CAUTION Do not hot plug the SuperCap when power is supplied to the controller card or if there is residual charge on the SuperCap, doing so might damage both the SuperCap and the controller board.

> ATTENTION The figures provided in this document are meant as examples only.

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