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How to Setup E-mail Alerts for Intel® Rapid Storage RAID
Operating Systems: Windows 2008 Server & Windows 7
This guide provides step by step instructions showing how you can setup e-mail alerts for
Intel Rapid Storage RAID, e.g. to alert you in case of a hard drive failure.
Unfortunately, Intel® Rapid Storage RAID management software
doesn’t offer the possibility
to configure e-mail alerts. To get around this limitation, create a scheduled task that triggers
an e-mail alert whenever a failure event is logged by Rapid Storage RAID.
On a drive failure the RAID status will change to “degraded” and the Rapid storage RAID
(more exactly: the service IAStorDataMgrSvc) will log an event to the Windows application
protocol with ID "0" at warning level.
Once you receive the e-mail alert, you will have to login to the server to analyse and
troubleshoot the problem using the Intel® Rapid Storage management software. A failed
drive may have to be exchanged then.
Attention:
Before setting up e-mail alerts, the Intel® Rapid Storage management software needs to be
installed. Otherwise the RAID status is not monitored and no events are logged.
This software is used also to configure or convert RAIDs as well as to rebuild a RAID after
exchanging a hard drive. A drive that has been hot-swapped will be detected only after
rescanning disks in Windows disk management.
1. Start "Task Scheduler" by clicking on Start -> Administrative Tools -> Task Scheduler