NEC 5800 manual

NEC Expr ess5800 series Power Console Plus™ User ’ s Guide ONL-4140bN-COMMON-1 19-99-0508[...]

Preface This manual explains "Power Console Plus" that is used with NEC Express5800 series connected with the LSI Logic disk array controller . This manual is intended for pe rsons who are familiar with W i ndows functions and operation methods. See the W indows Online Help and Manual for W indows operation for further information. Read o[...]

Content s 1. Overview .................................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Major Functions .................................................................................................................... 1 1.2 Components .......................................................[...]

– 1 – 1. Overview 1.1 MAJOR FUNCTIONS Power Console Plus is a utility to RAID system U se of Power Console Plus enables operations (e.g., monitoring and maintenance) of RAID systems that are constructed on local NEC Express servers and NEC Express servers connected through networks (TCP/IP). The operations can be done online on graphical screen[...]

– 2 – 1.2 COMPONENTS Power Console Plus consists of the following six components: SNMP Agent Install SNMP Agent in the NEC Express ser ver in which the MegaRAID controller is installed. MegaRAID Service Monitor Install MegaRAID Service Monitor in the NEC Express server in which the MegaRAID controller is installed. Synchronize Cache Utility Ins[...]

– 3 – Power Console Plus components to be installed are different between the tar get servers and management PC. Server NEC Express server in which the MegaRAID controller is installed Install the following components in this server: – SNMP Agent – MegaRAID Service Monitor – MegaRAID Client Management PC Management PC that monitors and co[...]

– 4 – 2. Server Setup This section explains how to setup the Power Console Plus in the NEC Express server configuring RAID system 2.1 OPERA TING ENVIRONMENT This section explains the operating environmen t required for Power Console Plus to operate. Hardware – Machine: NEC Express5800 series server configuring RAID system – Memory size: Lar[...]

– 5 – 2.2 PREP ARA TIONS This section explains prerequisites for setup. The driver for the RAID system must be installed. The SNMP service of W indows must be installed. TCP/IP setting for W indows must be completed. Updating of the system must be completed. The machine must be logged on by an Administrator group.[...]

– 6 – 2.3 INST ALLA TION T ake the following steps to install Power Console Plus: 1. Power on the server to start W indows 2000 / W indows 2003 Server . 2. Set the provided CD-ROM labeled as "EXP RESSBUILDER" in the CD-ROM drive. 3. Run "SETUP . EXE" which is in the "ESMPROenPCON" in CD-ROM using Explorer , and s[...]

– 7 – 6. Enter the password to permit full access to Power Console Plus, and click [Next]. Installation starts. When automatic setup comp letes, [Finish to Setup] screen appears. 7. Select "Y es, I want to restart my computer now" and click [Finish]. The system restarts.[...]

– 8 – 2.4 ENVIRONMENT SETUP Set up the environment as explained below . Setting HOSTS File Setting of HOSTS file is needed when control is performed via the network. Set the server information, management server information, a nd managem ent PC information of Power Console Plus into the HOSTS file that is provided/browsed by the TCP/IP of W ind[...]

– 9 – Modifying REGSER V .DA T File Modification of the management server informati on is necessary when control is performed via the network. Modify management server information registered in the REGSER V .DA T file that is provided/browsed by Power Console Plus. (The default host name registered is localhost.) Host name of the management ser[...]

– 10 – Change of the p assword permitting the full access T o change the password s pecified at installati on that permits the full access, use the password change tool SETP ASS.EXE provided by Power Console Plus. Execute the password change tool SETP ASS.EXE in the subfolder "rserver" in the installation destination of Power Console [...]

– 11 – 2.5 UNINST ALLING POWER CONSOLE PLUS T ake the following steps to uninstall Power Console Plus: 1. Power on the server and start W indows. 2. Set the provided CD-ROM "EXPRESSBUILDER" in the drive. 3. Execute "SETUP .EXE" which is in the "ESMPROenPCON" in CD-ROM from Explorer , and so on. [Select Setup Opti[...]

– 12 – 3. Management PC Setup This section explains Power Console Plus setup in a computer that manages servers via the network (TCP/IP). 3.1 OPERA TING ENVIRONMENT This section explains the operating environment re quired for Power Console Plus to operate on a management PC. Hardware – Machine: NEC Express5800 series PC98-NX series PC/A T -c[...]

– 13 – 3.2 PREP ARA TIONS This section explains prerequisites for setup. TCP/IP setting for W indows must be completed. Updating of the system must be completed (when NEC Express server is used) The machine must be logged on by an Administrator group. (W indows 2003 Server/ NT / 2000) Power Console Plus must be uninstalled (if installed).[...]

– 14 – 3.3 INST ALLA TION T ake the following steps to install Power Console Plus: 1. Power on the server to start W indows. 2. Set the provided CD-ROM labeled as "EXP RESSBUILDER" in the CD-ROM drive. 3. Run "SETUP .EXE" which is in the "ESMPROenPCON" in CD-ROM using Explorer , and so on. [Setup Option] dialog b[...]

– 15 – 5. Specify the directory to install the Power Console Plus, and click [Next]. Installation starts. When automatic setup comp letes, [Finish to Setup] screen appears. NOTE: T o change the installation directory , click on [Browse...] and specify the desired directory . 6. Click [Finish]. * Screens shown here is the inst allation performed[...]

– 16 – 3.4 ENVIRONMENT SETUP Set up the environment as explained below . Setting HOSTS File Set the server information, management server in formation, and managem ent PC information of Power Console Plus into the HOSTS file that is provided/browsed by the TCP/IP of W indows. IP address and host name for all servers and ma nagement servers and [...]

– 17 – Modifying REGSERV.DAT File Modify management server inform ation regist ered in the REGSER V .DA T file that is provided/browsed by Power Console Plus. (The default host name registered is localhost.) Host name of the management server Use a text editor (e.g., notepad) to modify the REGSER V .DA T file. Line feed is necessary at the end [...]

– 18 – 3.5 UNINST ALLING POWER CONSOLE PLUS T ake the following steps to uninstall Power Console Plus: 1. Power on the server and start W indows. 2. Set the provided CD-ROM "EXPRESSBUILDER" in the drive. 3. Execute "SETUP .EXE" which is in the "ESMPROenPCON" in CD-ROM from Explorer , and so on. [Setup Options] sc[...]

– 19 – 4. Features of Power Console Plus This section explains the features of Power Console Plus. The screen as shown below appears when Power Console Plus is started. Power Console Plus Screen Layout Element Description Menu Bar Select options from Configuration, Adapter , Physical Drv , Logical Drv , Progress, or Help m enus. T oolbar Click [...]

– 20 – 4.1 T OOLBAR ICONS Power Console Plus includes several toolbar icons at the top of the screen. These icons provide easy access to Power Console Plus feat ures. Display Configuration Icon Click on this icon to display the cu rrent RAID system configuration. Print Icon Click on this icon to print the current RAID system configuration. Wiza[...]

– 21 – Adapter Properties Icon Click on this icon to display the properties of the selected controller . Physical Drive Icon Click on this icon to display the properties of the selected physical drive.[...]

– 22 – Logical Drive Icon Click on this icon to display the properties of the selected logical drive. Rebuild Rate Icon Click on this icon to change I/O ra te for rebuild or reconstruction. Rescan Icon When you click on this icon, the current ly selected controller scans its channels again to make sure that all drive configuration information i[...]

– 23 – Display Log Icon Click on this icon to display the log as shown below . NOTE: Power Console Plus logs all events to Raid.log. Raid.log is created in the same directory where Power Console Plus runs. If the Power Console Plus is installed in "C:Program FilesMegaRAID", then "C:Program FilesMegaRAIDClient" will beco[...]

– 24 – Help Icon Click on this icon to display info rm ation about Power Console Plus.[...]

– 25 – 4.2 MENUBAR OPTIONS The Power Console Plus menus are: Option Description Configuration Choose this option to sta rt the Power Console Plus Wizard to co nfigure the RAID system. Adapter Choose this option to select controller-rel ated functions. Y ou can enable or disable the sp eaker , and start the performance monitor . Physical Drv Cho[...]

– 26 – Automatic Configuration ： The W izard examines the system (e.g., connected physical drives and check mark on Redundancy checkbox) and automatically configures an optim al RAID system. Select [Automatic] and click on [Next]. The screen as shown below appears.[...]

– 27 – Custom Configuration ： Y ou can determine the configuration by specifying in detail the physical drives to be used and the logical drive to be created. Select [Custom], and click on [Next] . A screen as shown below appears. Select the drive to configure the array and clic k on [Add to Array]. Y ou cannot add a drive to an existing arra[...]

– 28 – Display Choose this option to display the current RAID system configuration. Print Choose this option to print the current RAID system configuration. SA VE Choose this option to save the current RAID configuration to a hard disk or flopp y disk. LOAD Choose this option to load a previously save d RAID configuration. When this option is s[...]

– 29 – Adapter Menu The options on the Adapter menu are described below . Option Description Remarks Update Firmware – This option is not available. Flush Cache Choose this option to force the controller to write the content s of cache memory to the logical drives. Performance Monitor On/Off Choose this option to graphically display the perfo[...]

– 30 – Option Description Remarks Alarm Control Choose this option to enable or disabl e the system alarm when the phy sical drive fails. Fast Initialization Choose this option to enable or disabl e Fast Initialization. Battery Status The battery information on a controller is displayed. S.M.A.R.T.Setting S.M.A.R.T . Set up a function. Please d[...]

– 31 – Properties Choose this option to display the controller properties. Rebuild Rate Choose Rebuild Rate to select the amount of system resources to be devoted to rebuilding failed disk drives. Click on the slider to sel ect the percentage of system resources to devote to the disk rebuild and click [OK]. NOTE: The higher the percentage, the [...]

– 32 – V iew Log Select this option to display the MegaRAID event log. View NVRAM Event Log The log of NVRAM is displayed. View Bad Block Log The Bad Bloc k information o n a drive is dis played. Enclosure Management Displays the status of the RAID drive enclosures. Three icons for each drive enclosure appear . Click on an icon to display the c[...]

– 33 – Alarm Control The alarm generates a beeping sound when one or m ore physical disks fail. The sound continues until Silence Alarm is selected . After a rebuild finishes, a beep signals that the rebuild is done. Choose Silence Alarm at this time to silence the ala rm. The alarm settings are: Setting Description Enable / Disable Alarm When [...]

– 34 – Disable(Enable) Check Consistency Restoration It is set up whether the mismatching detected with the adjustment check is restored. Please do not change. Disable(Enable) Temp Offline RAID A T emp Offline function is set up.Please do not change. Manage Patrol Read A Patrol Read function is set up.[...]

– 35 – Physical Drive Menu Rebuild Choose the Rebuild option to rebuild one or m ore failed disk drives. Select [Abort Rebuild] to stop the rebuild process at any time. The drive will revert to its original status before the rebuild began. A RAID 1 or 5 configuration has redundancy . If a drive in a RAID group fails, the RAID subsystem continue[...]

– 36 – Property Choose this option to display the properties of the selected physical drive. If you select [Processor] to display properti es, the [Insertion] may be incorrectly displayed.[...]

– 37 – Logical Drv Menu Initialize Choose this option to initialize the selected logical drive or drives. Y ou can view the progress of initialization. The time required fo r initialization depends on type and capacity of physical drive. IMPORT ANT : Power Console Plus allows y ou to initialize a drive at any time. Make sure that the drive bein[...]

– 38 – Properties Choose [Properties] to display the properties of the selected logical drive. Each logical drive can be displayed by selecting the [Pre vious] or [Next] buttons. Indications on the screen may not be aligned, however , it will not af fect on other operation. Change Config Y ou can change Cache Policy , change Read Po licy , chan[...]

– 39 – Y ou can choose W rite Back or W rite Th ru. Write Policy Description Write Back The controller sends a dat a transfer completion si gnal to the host when the controller cach e has received all the data in a transaction. Write Thru The controller sends a dat a transfer completion si gnal to the host when the disk array has received all t[...]

– 40 – Progress Menu The features on this menu are available only when a rebuild, initialization, check consistency , or drive reconstruction are in progress. Option Description Rebuild Prog ress Displays th e progress of rebu ild process. Diagnostics Progress Displays t he progress of diagno stics test. Initialize Progress Displays the progres[...]

– 41 – 5. Running Power Console Plus This section describes how to run Power Console Plus. Described below is simple te rminology and basic operations. Drive Status The statuses of each physical drive shown to the right of the SCSI ID or array are as follows: Drive St atus Code Description Online Onln The physical drive works normally . It is p[...]

– 42 – Displaying Physical Drive Properties Double-click on the icon that represents the physical drive to display the properties of the selected physical drive as shown in the figure. Y ou can view the vendor and size of physical drive. Y ou can view the properties of each physical drive by clicking [Previous Drive] or [Next Drive] . Displayin[...]

– 43 – 5.1 CONFIGURING ARRA YS AND LOGICAL DRIVES This section describes how to confi gure arrays and logical drives. Step 1 Choose W izard from the Configuration menu. The W izard screen appears. Choose [Custom] or [Automatic] mode and click on [Next] . Go to Step 4 i f you choose [Automatic] mode. NOTE: T ypes of Configuration Y ou can choose[...]

– 44 – Step 2 Select a physical drive in the Ready status. Click on [Add to Array] button to assign physical drives to the new array . Click on [Accept Array] button, and then click on [Next] button. NOTE: : Assign all phy sical disks used to configure a logical disk to [New Array ]. For example, to configure the array of RAID5 level, at least [...]

– 45 – Setting Advanced Parameter Set each parameter on the screen. NOTE: Some parameter values may be restricted to ensure the system performance and stable operation. Refer to the manual that comes with your controller . Step 4 V erify the array configuration on the screen. When verified, click on [Finish] button. NOTE: In the example shown b[...]

– 46 – Step 5 Click on [OK] in the confirmation screen. The new configuration is saved in the controller . Step 6 Click on [OK] in the confirmation screen. Initializes the logical drive. NOTE: If you canceled, select the logical drive on [Logical Devices V iew] in main menu, sel ect [Initialize] in [Logical Drv] menu to initialize the drive. Ch[...]

– 47 – 5.2 REBUILDING PHYSICAL DRIVE This section describes how to rebuild the physical drive. Step 1 On [Physical Devices V i ew] in the main menu, select a physical drive you want to rebuild (icon representing physical drive being failed). Select [Rebuild] in Physical Drv menu. Rebuild starts and a progress chart is displayed on the screen as[...]

– 48 – 5.3 CHECK CONSISTENCY ON LOGICAL DRIVE This section describes how to perform consistency check on logical drive. Step 1 Select an icon of logical drive to be checked in [Logical Devices V iew ] on main menu. Select [Check Consistency] in [Logical Drv] menu. Step 2 Click on [OK] in the confirmation screen. Check Consistency starts and a p[...]

– 49 – 5.4 ONLINE CAP ACITY EXP ANSION This section describes the procedur es for online capacity expansion. Add Cap acity Y ou can add a physical drive to an existing array to expand capacity only under the following conditions: Only one logical drive is configured per array . (If two or mor e logical drives are configured, Add Capacity featur[...]

– 50 – Adding Cap acity using Power Console Plus On the main Power Console Plus screen, verify th at the drive(s) that are added displa y on the appropriate channel. There are three ways you can add a ph ysical drive to an existing array . The first method is: Ste p 1 On [Physical Devices V i ew] of the main menu, select physical drive(s) you w[...]

– 51 – The second method is: Ste p 1 On [Physical Devices V i ew] of the main menu, select the physical drive(s) you want to add, and on [Logical Devices V iew], select the logical drive to add them to. Right-click on the logical drive, and select [Add Drive] in Advanced menu. Ste p 2 Click on [OK] in the confirmation screen. Ste p 3 A menu to [...]

– 52 – The third method is: Ste p 1 On [Physical Devices V i ew] of the main menu, select the physical drive(s) icon you want to add, and drag it to the logical drive icon you want to add them to. Ste p 2 A menu to select the RAID level is displayed. Select a RAID level and click on [Apply] button. Ste p 3 Array reconstruction (Add Capacity) st[...]

– 53 – 6. Periodic Consistency Check Make a periodic consistency check on array disks and correct inconsistency detected. Doing so prevents a failure in rebuilding a failing physical drive. A consistency check must be made on the whole Read section of the logical drive. This mean s that areas of the physical drives, which are not usually access[...]

– 54 – Argument Description arg1 -cons Sets a consistency check sche dule. Other arg parameters are us ed to set time. If no other arg parameters a re specified, relevant default is used. -h Sets the st art time of the consistency check. The time can be set in the range from 0 to 23. (The default st art time is 0.) -d Sets the day of the week o[...]

– 55 – 7. Notes 1. The following event log is sometimes registered w hen uninst alling Pow er Console Plus. But there is no problem. Source: Service Control Manager Event ID: 7031 Description: The SNMP Service service terminat ed unexpectedly . It has done this 1 time(s). Source: NobelNet Portmapper Event ID: 0 Description: NobelNet Portm apper[...]