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Chapter 2: Introduction to Adaptec Storage Manager
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About Adaptec Storage Manager
Adaptec Storage Manager is a software application that helps you build
a storage space for your online data, using Adaptec RAID controllers
and disk drives.
With Adaptec Storage Manager, you can group disk drives into logical
drives and build in redundancy to protect your data and improve
system performance.
You can also use Adaptec Storage Manager to monitor and manage all
the controllers and disk drives in your storage space from a single
location.
About the Adaptec Storage Manager Agent
When Adaptec Storage Manager is installed on a computer, the Adaptec
Storage Manager agent is also installed automatically. The agent is like a
service that keeps your storage space running. It’s designed to run in the
background, without user intervention, and its job is to monitor and
manage system health, event notifications, tasks schedules, and other
on-going processes on that system. It sends notices when tasks are
completed successfully, and sounds an alarm when errors or failures
occur on that system.
The agent uses less memory than the full application. If your storage
space includes systems that won’t be connected to monitors (and
therefore won’t require the user interface described in this Guide), you
can choose to run the agent only on those systems instead of the full
application (see
). You may want to do this if system resources
are limited, or if you want more system resources available for other
tasks.
You can manage and monitor systems running the agent only by
logging into them as remote systems (see
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).
You can also customize the agent settings to suit your storage space
requirements (see
).