background image
ASUS GUI RAID Manager: Introduction
1-4
1.2
Feature Summary
logical drives; rebuilding logical drives; defining spare
drives; creating, deleting, and partitioning logical volumes;
and mapping logical volume partitions to specific host
channels/LUNs
♦ Enclosure management functions, including defining
multiple customizable enclosures, dimensions, and number
of drives; monitoring physical drives, power supply, fan,
and temperature status; displaying relative location of
failed physical drives for reduced risk of replacing the
wrong drives
♦ Provides a log file for logging in various event
occurrences, including the time when an event occurs,
event severity, and event description; log file can be
accessed using any text editor program
♦ Supports statistics monitoring for displaying I/O
throughput history
♦ Provides innovative, user-configurable event notification
functions
Ø Configurable severity level qualifying the event
severity that will initiate the selected notification
sequence
Ø Configurable latency time between event occurrence
and notification sequence initiation provides local
administrator the option to abort issuance of the
notification sequence
Ø Pager/telephone notification via a local modem:
• Provides user-configurable address book for
keeping names and numbers to be paged/called,
and message to be sent