Owner's manual

6 Mainten ance

As you perform maintenance on the VLS, keep the following guidelines in mind:

• Do not turn off the VLS using the power button on the appliance. Verify that none of the initiators

have active connections, and use the Shutdown/Restart option in the GUI to shut down the VLS.

• If a peripheral does not work, make sure that all connections are secure.

Operational m

aintenance

As long as the VLS1000i is operational, there are many tools to help you diagnose issues and correct

them:

• To appraise

you of appliance status, the VLS1000i can be conﬁgured to send E-m ail alerts (see

List of e-ma

alerts).

• Log ﬁles are automatically created to help you diagnose issues (see Log and conﬁguration ﬁles).

• The VLS conﬁguration ca n be saved to a ﬁle to make future conﬁguration recovery possible (see

Log and conﬁguration ﬁles).

• Single dri

ve failures can be found and repaired (see Single drive failure ).

List of E-mail alerts

As explained earlier in Conﬁguring e-mail alerts, the VLS continuously m onitors its performance and

routinely checks for disk failures. If the messaging option is enabled, an E-mail is sent whenever the status

of a volume on the Hardware Status page changes.

Each message includes the serial number for the appliance.

NOTE:

Messages regarding capacity levels (Warning and Critical) are only sent once.

Table 4 lists sample messages.

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