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ASUS GUI RAID Manager: About this Guide
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Overview of the User’s Guide
♦ Chapter 1, Introduction. Provides information about the
GUI RAID Manager, including the system description,
feature summary, and feature highlights.
♦ Chapter 2, Installation. Discusses how to install the GUI
RAID Manager to your computer. Discussions include the
system requirements, setting up the hardware, software
installation, and how to update your software through
software downloading from ASUS’ FTP site.
♦ Chapter 3, Basic Operations at Startup. Discusses the
basic operations at system startup. These include starting
the GUI RAID Manager, connecting and disconnecting
from a disk array system, setting up the system security,
displaying and hiding the toolbar and status bar, working
with various disk array windows, and exiting from the
program.
♦ Chapter 4, Array Management. Provides information on
disk array management, including defining enclosures,
setting the controller and channel configurations, scanning
in drives, creating and deleting logical drives, assigning
spare drives, rebuilding logical drives, creating and
deleting logical volumes, defining volume partitions,
mapping logical volumes to host LUNs, deleting LUN
mappings, displaying the contents of the log file, and
monitoring the disk array statistics.
♦ Chapter 5, Notification Configuration. Describes how to
configure the GUI RAID Manager notification functions
for the pager, fax, e-mail, and broadcast.
Information
about the supported notification levels are also provided to
aid in the explanation of these functions.