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6 Maintenance
As you perform maintenance on the VLS, keep the following guidelines in mind:
• Do not turn off the VLS using the power button on the appliance. Verify that none of the initiators
have active connections, and use the Shutdown/Restart option in the GUI to shut down the VLS.
• If a peripheral does not work, make sure that all connections are secure.
Operational maintenance
As long as the VLS1000i is operational, there are many tools to help you diagnose issues and correct
them:
• To appraise you of appliance status, the VLS1000i can be configured to send E-mail alerts (see
List of e-mail alerts ).
• Log files are automatically created to help you diagnose issues (see Log and configuration files ).
• The VLS configuration can be saved to a file to make future configuration recovery possible (see
Log and configuration files ).
• Single drive failures can be found and repaired (see Single drive failure ).
List of E-mail alerts
As explained earlier in Configuring e-mail alerts , the VLS continuously monitors its performance and
routinely checks for disk failures. If the messaging option is enabled, an E-mail is sent whenever the status
of a volume on the Hardware Status page changes.
Each message includes the serial number for the appliance.
NOTE:
Messages regarding capacity levels (Warning and Critical) are only sent once.
Table 4 lists sample messages.
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