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Chapter 3 – management tool overview, 1 front panel display – Texas Memory Systems RamSan-325/325c User Manual

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Chapter 3 – Management Tool

Overview

3.1 Front Panel Display

The Front Panel Display provides a quick and easy way view the RamSan’s

status. It displays the current progress of disk synchronization and shows
system warnings and failures.


The RamSan’s front panel allows you to:

• Inspect the state of the system

• Change the method of IP address assignment

• Shutdown the system


Figure 3-1 displays the RamSan-325’s front panel:

Figure 3-1: RamSan-325 Front Panel

Four buttons located to the left of the display are used to make selections:

Menu The

Menu button has two functions:

• Function 1:

On any of the status or performance displays, pressing the
Menu” button launches the RamSan Main Menu.

• Function 2:

Escape function. Once the menu is open, pressing “Menu
returns the user to the prior screen.


Select When a menu item is on the display, pressing “Select” will

either: execute that menu option or proceed to the next layer
in the menu. If the menu is not selected, this button is

disabled.


The “↑” button scrolls up through the menu. The “↑” button is

also used cancel certain commands, as indicated on the display.

If the menu is not selected, this button is disabled.