
RAIDWatch User’s Manual
1.1 RAIDWatch Overview
1.1.1 Product Description
Infortrend’s innovated RAID manager, RAIDWatch, is a Java-based
program specifically designed for use in managing Infortrend’s RAID
subsystems.
RAIDWatch provides a user-friendly interface that graphically represents
disk array elements and simplifies the normally complicated process of
array configuration. RAIDWatch also provides real-time reporting on the
status of the entire array, thus making the task of monitoring disk arrays
virtually effortless. The functionality provided in the Event Monitor sub-
module in the previous RAIDWatch versions is now integrated into the
main management screen and the Configuration Client.
RAIDWatch complements the on-board console interface found on
Infortrend’s RAID controllers and a line of host-based, text mode RAID
Managers that provide the same functionality, but with greater ease of use.
The following sections describe the outstanding features of RAIDWatch and
introduce its conceptual framework.
1.1.2 Feature Summary
The list below summarizes RAIDWatch features:
♦ Support RAID level 6, which sustains the highest fault tolerance
♦ RAID level migration on a per logical drive basis
♦ Each logical drive can be accessed by both controllers
♦ 512K/1024K stripe size supported
♦ User-friendly graphical interface displays multiple information
windows for simultaneous managing and monitoring of multiple
RAID subsystems
♦ Standard TCP/IP connections to an Internet agent for full-featured
worldwide remote management over the network
♦ Communicates with the subsystems over a LAN (out-of-band) and
the Internet, and over the SCSI bus, iSCSI or Fibre channels using
in-band command protocols
♦ Auto Discovery function searches available subsystems on the
network for user-convenient RAID connections
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