Adaptec 48300 - Manual (Page 37)

Managing Your Storage Space ●
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About Adaptec Storage Manager
Adaptec Storage Manager is a full-featured software application that
helps you build a storage space for your online data, using Adaptec
HostRAID 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 HostRAID controllers and disk drives in your storage space from a
single location.
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), you can choose to run the
agent only on those systems instead of the full application. For more
information, refer to the Adaptec Storage Manager User’s Guide or
online Help.
Installing Adaptec Storage Manager
Adaptec Storage Manager is included on the Adaptec Storage Manager
Installation CD. For installation instructions, refer to the Adaptec
Storage Manager User’s Guide, also included on the Adaptec Storage
Manager Installation CD.