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Galaxy G3G12 / G3G16 Installation and Hardware Reference Manual
82 Section 4 Maintenance with GAM
4. Click the Start button.
Running Media Patrol
Media Patrol checks the magnetic media on physical drives. When it finds the specified number of bad
blocks, it will trigger PDM. See Making B and Running P.
You can schedule Media Patrol to run automatically, see
Scheduling an A.
To run Media Patrol:
1. In Tree View, click the Subsystem icon.
2. From the dropdown menu on the Background Activities tab, select Start Media Patrol.
3. In the next screen, click the Start button.
Running PDM
Predictive Data Migration (PDM) migrates data from the suspect physical drive to a spare disk drive, similar
to Rebuilding. But unlike Rebuilding, PDM acts before the disk drive fails and your Logical Drive goes
Critical.
You an also run PDM on a specific disk array, see
Running PDM on a D
Also see “Predictive Data Migration (PDM)”
To run PDM:
1. In Tree View, click the Subsystem icon.
2. In Management View, click the Background Activities tab and select Start Media Patrol from the
dropdown menu.
3. In the next screen, select the Source and Target physical drives.
The suspect physical drive is the source. The replacement physical drive is the target.
4. Click the Start button.
Viewing Scheduled Activities
To view scheduled activities for this subsystem:
1. Click the Subsystem icon Tree View.
2. Click the Scheduler tab in Management View.
Scheduling an Activity
To set a scheduled activity for this subsystem:
1. Click the Subsystem icon Tree View.
2. From the dropdown menu on the Scheduler tab, choose an item:
• Media Patrol. See
Running M
• Redundancy Check. See Running R
• Battery Reconditioning. See Reconditioning a B
• Spare Drive Check. See Running S
3. In the Scheduler dialog box, check the Enable This Schedule box.
4. Select a start time (24-hour clock).
5. Select a Recurrence Pattern.
• Daily – Enter the number of days between events.
• Weekly – Enter the number of weeks between events and select which days of the week.
• Monthly – Select a calendar day of the month (1 – 31).
If you select a higher number than there are days in the current month, the actual start date will occur at
the beginning of the following month.