## Setting user preferences

In the User preferences window, you can do the following:

- Change the initialization settings
- Specify remote access settings
- Change the alarm settings

### Changing the initialization settings

Initializing a logical drive erases the first 1024 sectors on the drive and prevents access to any data previously stored on the drive. The default setting is checked. When this mode is enabled, the ServeRAID Manager automatically initializes each new logical drive and prevents access to the manual initialization function.

1. Click the Initialization settings tab.
2. Click the check box to enable or disable automatic initialization of logical drives.
3. Click OK.

   Attention: If you uncheck (that is, disable) automatic initialization, the Manager will not initialize each logical drive (by writing zeros to the first 1024 sectors of the logical drive) when it is created. You must still initialize all newly defined logical drives before storing data.

### Specifying remote access settings

Note: These settings are not available in startable-CD mode or when the ServeRAID Manager is a plug-in to another program.

If you want to run the ServeRAID Manager in local-only mode:

1. Click the Remote access settings note tab.
2. Check the Local only box. If you click this option, the port number entry field will gray out.
3. Click OK.
4. Restart the Manager for this setting to take effect.

The next time you start the Manager, TCP/IP networking will be disabled. In local-only mode, you cannot monitor any remote systems and no remote systems can monitor your system.

If you want to run the ServeRAID Manager in networking mode:

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1. Click the Remote access settings note tab.
2. If the Local only box is checked, uncheck it.
3. If you have a conflict with the default port number, type a new port number in the entry field. The default port number is 34571.
4. Click OK. The ServeRAID Manager stores the port number in a file.
5. Restart the Manager for this setting to take effect.

### Changing the alarm settings

All Warning and Error events cause an audible alarm to sound every five minutes, notifying you of the event. You can adjust the alarm settings with the following steps.

1. Click the Alarm settings note tab.
2. Click the check box to enable or disable the repeating alarm.
   Note: If you disable the alarm, you will not hear an audible alarm when you receive problem events.
3. If you have enabled the alarm, you can adjust the time interval (in seconds) you want between each alarm. The default is 300 seconds (that is, 5 minutes).
4. If you have enabled the alarm, you can adjust the length of time (in beeps) you want the alarm to continue. The default is 3 beeps.
5. Click OK.
6. Restart the Manager for these settings to take effect.