Areca 24/4 Internal/External Port Pcie 3.0 12 Gb/s SAS/SATA Raid Controller 2Gb Cache - Manual (Page 144)

WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION
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6. Web Browser-based Configuration
Before using the firmware-based browser McRAID storage manager, do
the initial setup and installation of this product. If you need to boot up
the operating system from a RAID volume set, you must first create a
RAID volume by using McBIOS RAID manager. Please refer to section
3.3 Using Quick Volume /Raid Setup Configuration for information on
creating this initial volume set.
The McRAID storage manager is firmware-based utility, which is acces -
sible via the web browser installed on your operating system. The web
browser-based McRAID storage manager is a HTML-based application,
which utilizes the browser (IE, Chrome and Mozilla etc.) installed on
your monitor station.
It can be accessed through the in-band PCIe bus or out-of-band LAN
port. ArcHTTP is used to launch the in-band web browser-based
McRAID storage manager. The firmware-embedded web browser-based
McRAID storage manager allows local or remote to access it from any
standard internet browser via a LAN or WAN with no software or
patches required. The firmware contains SMTP manager monitors all
system events and user can select either single or multiple user notifi -
cations to be sent via LAN with “Plain English” e-mails. The firmware-
embedded SNMP agent allows remote to monitor events via LAN with
no SNMP agent required. Use the McRAID storage manager to:
• Create RAID set
• Expand RAID set
• Define volume set
• Add physical drive
• Modify volume set
• Modify RAID level/stripe size
• Define pass-through disk drives
• Modify system function
• Update firmware
• Designate drives as hot spares
6.1 Start-up McRAID Storage Manager
With McRAID storage manager, you can: