Users Guide

alarms, and so on) associated with external enclosures. Physical disks can be contained in an

enclosure or attached to the backplane of a system.

In addition to managing the physical disks contained in the enclosure, you can monitor the status of the

fans, power supply, and temperature probes in an enclosure. You can hot plug enclosures. Hot plugging

is defined as adding of a component to a system while the operating system is still running.

The physical devices connected to the controller must have the latest firmware. For the latest supported

firmware, contact your service provider.

Storage events from PERC are mapped to SNMP traps and WSMAN events as applicable. Any changes to

the storage configurations are logged in the Lifecycle Log.

PERC Capability CEM configuration Capable

Controller (PERC 9.1 or later)

CEM configuration Non-capable

Controller (PERC 9.0 and lower)

Real-time If there is no existing pending or

scheduled jobs for the controller,

then configuration is applied.

If there are pending or scheduled

jobs for that controller, then the

jobs have to be cleared or you

must wait for the jobs to be

completed before applying the

configuration at run-time. Run-

time or real-time means, a

reboot is not required.

Configuration is applied. An error

message is displayed. Job

creation is not successful and

you cannot create real-time jobs

using Web interface.

Staged If all the set operations are

staged, the configuration is

staged and applied after reboot

or it is applied at real-time.

Configuration is applied after

reboot