ASUS GUI RAID Manager: Installation
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2.2
Hardware Setup
2.2.2 Remote Management
You can set up your hardware two ways in remote management:
network and telephone. Network setup provides a faster data
transfer rate than the telephone setup for it utilizes the network
bandwidth of 10 Mbps (million bits per second) for Ethernet,
100 Mbps for Fast Ethernet, and so on; the telephone setup is
restricted to the speed of the modem, which is 38.4 Kbps
maximum (currently). Another advantage of using the network
is you can have your GUI RAID Manager station manage other
disk array systems on the network.
Alternatively, you can
manage the disk array system from other GUI RAID Manager
stations on the network.
Network setup requires running the GUI RAID Manager on the
target manager station(s), and enabling the SNMP service on the
local host.
The following figure illustrates a typical network
setup:
PC System with GUI
RAID Manager &
Windows NT SNMP
Agent
PC System with
ASUS DA-2200
(Windows NT/95/98)
SNMP Agent
PC System with
SNMP Agent
(Windows NT/95/98)
SCSI-to-SCSI
RAID
Network
Management via the telephone line is slower but it allows
management of the disk array system even from distant remote
locations. As long as you have a telephone line and a modem,
you can perform management anywhere around the globe. The
following figure displays the hardware configuration for
management via the telephone line: