## Using the ServeRAIDTM Manager interface

Before you begin using the ServeRAID Manager, take some time to review the layout of its window interface.

1. Menu bar
2. Tool bar
3. Main Tree
4. Main Panel
5. Event viewer
6. Status bar

There are a number of ways you can work with the ServeRAID Manager interface. You can:

- Select actions from the menu bar.
- Click an object on the tool bar.
- Using the right-mouse button, click an item in the Tree view.
- Drag and drop objects from one Tree view to another, for example, to add a drive to an array.

### Menu bar

The menu bar provides standard File, View, Actions, and Help menus. In addition to using the mouse, you can use keyboard shortcuts to access the menu bar. Selections from the Actions menu are also available when you right-click an icon in the Main Tree.

> Note: No actions from the Actions menu are available during any of the following:

> - Rebuild
> - Foreground synchronize
> - Logical drive migration
> - RAID level-5 Enhanced compression or decompression
> - FlashCopy with backup option

### Tool bar

The tool bar provides quick-path icons for common tasks.

### Main Tree

The Main Tree provides an expandable tree view of the systems you are managing. You can perform most of your configuration and maintenance tasks by first selecting the ServeRAID controller, array, logical drive, hot-spare drive, or physical drive objects from this Main Tree.

The Main Tree displays a maximum of the following:

- Unlimited system nodes
- 12 controllers on a system
- Eight arrays on a controller
- Eight logical drives on a controller
- Three channels on a controller
- 15 physical drives on a channel

The Main Tree displays a system warning icon if any controller in a system has one of the following:

- A defunct physical drive
- PFA on a physical drive
- A critical or offline logical drive
- A blocked logical drive
- Battery-backup cache error
- A controller is not responding
- An enclosure error

If any system has a warning icon , the Managed systems icon also displays its warning icon .

### Main Panel

The Main Panel provides specific object information or configuration instructions. When the ServeRAID Manager is in the Information mode and you click an object from the Main Tree, detailed information about the object displays in this panel. When the Manager is in Configuration mode, the instructions needed to configure your ServeRAID subsystem appear in this panel.

### Event viewer

The event viewer provides advisory and progressive-status information and messages for your ServeRAID subsystem. Every event includes:

- An icon
  These icons denote the severity of the event:
  - Information
  - Warning
  - Error

- A date and time stamp
  Denotes when the event originated.

- The host name where the event originated
Note: A few events will not include a host name.

- A description
  Events can inform you when a rebuild starts, a configuration is applied, if a failed drive is detected, and other potential problems that might occur to your managed systems. Events for remote systems display when:
  - Your local system is defined in a remote system's notification list.
  - You have added the remote system to your Main Tree using Add remote system.

Note: All Warning and Error events cause an audible alarm to sound, notifying you of the event.

You can double-click an event in the event viewer and the Configuration event detail window opens. This window contains the same information as the event viewer, but in a larger, easier-to-read window. Some events will have additional details listed in this window.

If the ServeRAID Manager is not in Startable-CD mode, the Manager appends each event to a logging file, RAIDEVT.LOG. If this file exceeds 200 KB, the manager copies the file to RAIDEVT.OLD and creates a new RAIDEVT.LOG. If there is a RAIDEVT.OLD already, the Manager overwrites it.

### Status bar

The status bar displays the following information from left to right:

- Overall Managed systems status icon and text. The icon is the same as the Managed systems icon displayed in the Tree view. The text states whether the ServeRAID Manager has detected problems on any of the systems.

  Note: You can drag the vertical bars to the right and left to adjust viewing the status bar information. You might have to adjust the vertical bar to see the overall managed system status text.

- The current tree path.

- The ServeRAID Manager displays a labeled progress indicator in this pane if the currently selected system has one or more controllers containing a logical drive undergoing any of the following actions:
  - Rebuild
  - Migration
  - Synchronization (either foreground or background)
  - Compression or decompression (RAID level-5E only)
  - FlashCopy

  If no action is in progress, this pane is empty.

  The progress indicator is labeled with the controller number and logical drive number. If more than one controller is undergoing one of these operations, the selected controller's progress displays in the pane.