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VTrak E-Class Product Manual
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Managing Background Activities
Background activity management includes:
• Viewing Current Background Activities (page 114)
• Viewing Scheduled Background Activities (page 114)
• Adding a Scheduled Background Activity (page 115)
• Changing a Background Activity Schedule (page 116)
• Enabling or Disabling a Scheduled Background Activity (page 117)
• Deleting a Scheduled Background Activity (page 117)
• Media Patrol (page 118)
• Redundancy Check (page 118)
• Initialization (page 119)
• Rebuild (page 120)
• Migration (page 120)
• PDM (page 121)
• Transition (page 122)
• Synchronization (page 122)
• Battery Reconditioning (page 123)
• Spare Check (page 123)
Background activities perform a variety of preventive and remedial functions on
your physical drives, disk arrays, logical drives, and other components.
You can run a background activity immediately or schedule it to run at a later
time. Scheduling options are described below.
Setting options for each activity are listed after the scheduling options. These
settings determine how the background activity affects I/O performance.
Viewing Current Background Activities
To view a list of current background activities:
1. Click the Administration tab.
2. Click the Background Activities icon.
The list of background appears.
Currently running activities show a progress bar.
Viewing Scheduled Background Activities
To view a list of scheduled background activities:
1. Click the Administration tab.