Software User Guide for Windows*

RAID Features
14 Intel
®
RSTe for Microsoft Windows* OS Software User’s Guide
2.5.43 Solid State Drives (SSD)
Intel
®
RSTe supports SSDs as if they are Hard Disk Drives.
2.5.44 AHCI Controller
Intel
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RSTe supports TRIM on the AHCI controller in a non-RAID configuration.
2.5.45 SCU Controller
Intel
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RSTe supports TRIM on the SCU controller in a non-RAID configuration.
2.6 Email Alerting and Notification
Note: This feature has a platform specific limitation. It is supported only on Intel
®
C600 series chipset
based platforms; not supported on legacy platforms/chipsets.
Intel
®
RSTe supports email notification of certain storage events (see Appendix A for supported events).
The Intel
®
RSTe UI provides the interface for enabling/disabling and configuring the email notification
feature. The default setting in the UI is disabled.
The email notification feature allows the user to configure the platform to send alert/notification emails for
each storage subsystem event that gets reported by the Intel
®
RSTe monitor service.
2.6.1 Configuration
The Intel
®
RSTe user application provides the interface to allow the user to configure the email alert
notification feature from the Preferences tab of the UI (user must be logged on with administrative
privileges).
 User can enable/disable the email notification feature.
 User can configure the level of storage system events to be sent by email notification (Storage system
Information, Warning, and/or Error). Any combination of the three alert levels can be configured to
trigger an email notification.
 User can configure the email settings:
 SMTP host (required) - Port (required) - Return email address (required) - Recipient email
addresses (one address required, up to 3 maximum)
 User can configure the email alert/notifications to send test emails to all addresses specified.
2.6.2 Email Message Format
 Message header:
 Item1. Return email address: Email address of the originating computer.
 Item2. Recipient email address: Email address of computer receiving the email notification.
 Item3. Subject: System formatted subject content with product name, the storage system event
level, and the hostname of the originating computer.
 Message body:
 Item4. Log file text: Contains the text of the event as it is displayed in the event log.
 Item5. System report: Contains the system configuration information of the originating
computer as seen in the Intel
®
RSTe GUI Preferences page.
 Optional text:
 Item6. This section is blank unless the originating computer’s OS is in a language other than
English. If the originating computer sends items 4 and 5 in non-English, the English
translation of those two items will appear in this section (for test emails, only item 4 will be
translated here).