## Identifying drives

You can identify the hardware in the server because the light associated with the hardware you selected is blinking.

1. Click any Main Tree icon except Managed systems or System .
2. Click Actions --> the appropriate Identify.

   The ServeRAID Manager sends a command to the firmware to start blinking one or more physical drive lights, depending on the following:

   - The selected Main Tree item
   - Whether the item and its subsystems are all controlled by an enclosure device

3. Click OK to stop the drive lights from blinking.

### Using Identify to work with your systems

When you select this action for an icon in the Main Tree, the ServeRAID Manager makes the hardware light associated with the selected icon blink.

Depending on what you click in the Main Tree view, you can identify:

- A drive
- All drives
- A channel of drives
- A logical drive
- All logical drives
- An array or spanned array
- All arrays

You can make only one selection at a time. The hardware will continue blinking until you click OK in the message window.

Identify works only on controllers with a SAF-TE processor and the appropriate firmware. The processor uses a SCSI ID; therefore, it displays in the Main Tree as the following:

Enclosure

If a drive light or a series of drive lights do not blink, it is because all or part of the subsystem is not controlled by a SAF-TE processor.

For example, if SCSI channel 1 has a SAF-TE processor, but SCSI channel 3 does not, and you select to identify all physical drives, only SCSI channel 1 will blink.

Identify is particularly useful for enclosure managers, such as the Netfinity® EXP15. You can use Identify to clarify which drives in the enclosure you need to work with, before you pull them out of the enclosure.

If a SAF-TE processor is present and the controller supports drive identification, then you can identify the components by doing the following.

Right-click: | To identify...
Controller | All physical drives on the controller
Arrays | All physical drives in all arrays
Logical drives | All physical drives in all logical drives
Physical drives | All physical drives
Hot-spare drives | All hot-spare drives
Array ? | All physical drives in the selected array
Spanned array ? | All physical drives in the selected spanned array
Logical drive ? | All physical drives in the selected logical drive
Logical drives in array ? | All physical drives in the selected logical drives
Logical drives in spanned array ? | All physical drives in the selected logical drives
Physical drive ? | The selected physical drive.
Physical drives in array ? | All physical drives in the selected array
Physical drives in spanned array ? | All physical drives in the selected array
Channel ? | All physical drives on the selected channel