When you click Identify for a tree object, the ServeRAID Manager makes the hardware light associated with the selected tree object blink.
Depending on what you clicked in the tree, you can identify the following:
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 is displayed in the 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 enclosures, 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, you can identify the components by doing the following:
Right-click: | To identify... |
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All physical drives on the controller |
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All physical drives in all arrays |
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All physical drives in all logical drives |
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All physical drives |
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All hot-spare drives |
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All physical drives in the selected array |
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All physical drives in the selected spanned array |
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All physical drives in the selected logical drive |
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All physical drives in the selected logical drives |
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All physical drives in the selected logical drives |
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The selected physical drive. |
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All physical drives in the selected array |
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All physical drives in the selected array |
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All physical drives on the selected channel |
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