HP Insight Management Agents - Manual (Page 32)

Agents might need to be updated. Select any of the devices from the submenu to display more
information about the devices. The following information displays for all devices:
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Device Type—Identifies the type of ATAPI device. The following values are valid:
Disk—A direct-access device, such as a disk drive. ◦
◦ Removable Media Disk—A removable media device, such as a floppy disk drive.
◦ Tape—A sequential-access device, such as a tape drive.
◦ Printer—A printer device.
◦ Processor—An operating device, such as a central processing unit or ProLiant Storage
System.
◦ WORM drive—A write-once, read-many times device.
◦ DVD/CD-ROM—A DVD-ROM or CD-ROM device. It can be a read-only device or a
read-write device.
◦ PD-CD Drive—A combination CD-ROM drive and removable media read-write drive.
◦ Scanner—A scanning device.
◦ Optical—An optical memory or storage device.
◦ Jukebox—A media-changer device, such as a tape or CD library.
◦ Communications Device—A communications device, such as a LAN bridge.
◦
Unknown—The Storage Agents could not determine the device type. You might need to
upgrade your support software or Storage Agents.
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Model—Displays the model of the device.
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Firmware Revision—Displays the firmware version of the device.
IDE ATA disk drives
The information displayed for each IDE ATA disk drive entry in the submenu includes condition
graphic and disk drive location: Primary or Secondary channel, Master device 0 or Slave device
1. If the Storage Agents cannot determine the channel, then “Channel unknown” displays. If the
device position cannot be determined, then “Device unknown” displays and driver software or the
Storage Agents might need to be updated. Select any of the disk drives from the submenu to display
more information about the disk drives.
The following information is displayed for all disk drives:
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Model—Displays the model of the disk drive.
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Status—Displays the current status of the disk drive. The following values are valid:
OK—The disk drive is operating normally. ◦
◦ Solid State Disk Wear Out—Indicates that the solid state drive has a S.M.A.R.T wear
error and is approaching the maximum usage limit for writes (wear out). The solid state
drive should be replaced as soon as possible.
◦ S.M.A.R.T. Error—The S.M.A.R.T. predictive failure monitoring predicts imminent failure
of this disk drive. Schedule replacement before actual failure occurs.
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