StorCase Technology DS500 - Manual (Page 9)

Introduction 5
RemotaSilo User’s Guide - Rev. B00 Kingston Technology Company
Introduction
RemotaSilo ™ is a factory-installed option for Kingston’s Data Silo
DS500 9-bay rack mount or tower expansion chassis. The RemotaSilo
upgrade consists of an additional circuit board installed into the DS500
chassis, a 6’ asynchronous serial cable, and remote monitoring
software for a PC running either Microsoft Windows 95
® or Windows
NT ® 4.0 operating systems.
The RemotaSilo upgrade allows remote monitoring and control of up to
16 DS500 chassis units and their installed hard drives, tape drives, CD-
ROM and CD-R drives, or other SCSI devices. The RemotaSilo is
designed to work with RAID controllers from the leading manufacturers.
CMD
® CRD-5500 (all configurations), and Mylex ® DAC960S RAID
controllers are currently supported. RemotaSilo is capable of monitoring
system configurations and chassis environmental parameters, such as:
power supply voltages, ambient temperature and cooling fan activity.
With a compatible, installed RAID controller, RemotaSilo also monitors
all active drives supported by the controller for drive failures.
RAID
SERVER
DS500 TOWER
WITH
REMOTASILO
HOST PC
SERIAL CABLE
SCSI CABLE
ETHERNET CABLE
CONNECT UP TO 16
REMOTASILO CHASSIS
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Figure 1: RemotaSilo Configuration