Chapter 9: Managing Your Storage Space ● 80About Adaptec Storage ManagerAdaptec Storage Manager is a full-featured software application that helps you build a storagespace for your online data, using Adaptec RAID controllers and disk drives.With Adaptec Storage Manager, you can group disk drives into logical drives and build inredundancy to protect your data and improve system performance.From a single workstation, you can use Adaptec Storage Manager to monitor and manage allthe controllers and disk drives in your storage space.When Adaptec Storage Manager is installed on a computer, the Adaptec Storage Manager agentis also installed automatically. The agent is like a service that keeps your storage space running.It’s designed to run in the background, without user intervention, and its job is to monitor andmanage system health, event notifications, task schedules, and other on-going processes onthat system. It sends notices when tasks are completed successfully, and sounds an alarm whenerrors or failures occur on that system.The agent uses less memory than the full application. If your storage space includes systemsthat won’t be connected to monitors (and therefore won’t require the user interface), you canchoose to run the agent only on those systems instead of the full application. For moreinformation, refer to the Adaptec Storage Manager online Help, or to the Adaptec StorageManager User’s Guide on the Adaptec Installation DVD.Installing Adaptec Storage ManagerAdaptec Storage Manager is included on the Adaptec Installation DVD. For installationinstructions, refer to the Adaptec Storage Manager User’s Guide, also included on theinstallation DVD.About the Adaptec RAID Controller Configuration UtilityThe Adaptec RAID Controller Configuration (ARCCONF) is a command line utility that youcan use to perform basic array and configuration management functions.With ARCCONF, you can:● Create and delete logical drives● Modify and copy configuration settings● Recover from disk drive failures and troubleshoot your systemARCCONF is described in the Adaptec RAID Controller Command Line Utility User’s Guide,which is included on the Adaptec Installation DVD.Note: The distribution includes a command line utility for VMware systems called RemoteARCCONF. For details, see Which Utility Should I Use on VMware? on page 81.
