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Chapter 9: Managing Your Storage Space l51
About Adaptec Storage Manager
Adaptec Storage Manager is a full-featured software application that helps you build a storage
space for your data. With Adaptec Storage Manager, you can group disk drives into logical
drives and build in redundancy to protect your data and improve system performance.
Adaptec Storage Manager is included on the Adaptec Storage Manager Installation CD. For
installation instructions, refer to the Adaptec Storage Manager User’s Guide, also included on
the Adaptec Storage Manager Installation CD.
You can also use Adaptec Storage Manager to monitor and manage all the controllers and disk
drives in your storage space from a single location.
When Adaptec Storage Manager is installed on a computer, the Adaptec Storage Manager agent
is also installed automatically. The agent is like a service that keeps your storage space running.
It runs in the background, without user intervention, and monitors and manages system
health, notifies events, schedules tasks, and manages other on-going processes. It sends notices
when tasks are completed successfully, and sounds an alarm when errors or failures occur.
The agent uses less memory than the full application. If your storage space includes systems
that won’t be connected to monitors (and therefore won’t require the user interface), you can
choose to run the agent only on those systems instead of the full application. For more
information, refer to the Adaptec Storage Manager User’s Guide or online Help.
Installing Adaptec Storage Manager
Adaptec Storage Manager is included on the Adaptec Storage Manager Installation CD. For
installation instructions, refer to the Adaptec Storage Manager User’s Guide for Direct Access
Storage , also included on the Adaptec Storage Manager Installation CD.
About the HRCONF Command Line Utility
HRCONF (HostRAID Configuration Utility) is a command line utility that you can use to
perform some basic array and configuration management functions.
With HRCONF, you can:
● Create and delete logical drives
● Modify and copy configuration settings
● Recover from disk drive failures and troubleshoot
Note:
Adaptec recommends that only advanced users familiar with command line interfaces use
HRCONF.