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MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 9: Monitoring Controllers and Its Attached Devices | Monitoring Drives
The Alarm Enabled field indicates whether the controller has an alarm to alert the user
with an audible tone when there is an error or a problem on the controller. Options are
available for disabling or silencing the alarm by right clicking on a controller icon or by
selecting Go To ->Controller menu.
The controller properties are defined in Appendix C, Glossary .
9.16 Monitoring Drives When the MegaRAID Storage Manager software is running, you can see the status of all
the drives in the left panel. If a drive is operating normally, the icon looks like this:
. If
a drive has failed, a small red circle appears to the right of the icon.
To display the complete drive Information, click on a drive icon in the left panel of the
MegaRAID Storage Manager main menu. The drive properties appear in the right panel
as shown in the following figure. The information on this tab is self-explanatory. There
are no user-selectable properties for physical devices. Icons for other storage devices,
such as CD-ROM drives and DAT drives, can also appear in the left panel.
Figure 254: Drive Properties
The Power Status property displays the status On when a drive is spun up and displays
the status Powersave when a drive is spun down. Note that SSD drives and other drives
that never spin down still show On.