Chaparral K5312/K7313 - Manual (Page 59)

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Monitoring System Status
You should monitor your system regularly to ensure that the controller, disks, and
arrays are working properly. The Disk Array Administrator software lets you monitor
the status several ways:
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Event log (see below)
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Hardware information (see Displaying Hardware and Configuration
Information on page 5-5)
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Array status screen (see Viewing Array Status on page 4-8)
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Disk status screen (see Viewing Drive Status on page 4-13)
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Power On Self-Test (POST) (see Problems During Bootup on page 9-4)
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Overall Statistics screen (see Displaying Overall Statistics on page 5-11)
Displaying the Event Log
The controller’s event log contains important information about the status of the
controller, disks, and arrays. You should check it regularly to monitor the status of
your system. For more information about specific SCSI disk and channel errors, see
Understanding SCSI Errors on page 9-9.
Below is a list of some of the key warning and failure events included in the log
during operation:
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Disk detected error
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Disk channel error
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Battery failure
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Drive down
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Power up