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MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 9: Monitoring Controllers and Its Attached Devices | Monitoring Server Events
9.14 Monitoring Server Events The MegaRAID Storage Manager software enables you to monitor the activity of
MegaRAID Storage Manager users in the network.
When a user logs on/logs off from the application, the event message appears in the
log displayed at the bottom of the MegaRAID Storage Manager screen (the Vivaldi
log/MegaRAID Storage Manager Log). These event message have a severity level, a
date and timestamp (User log on / log off time), and a brief description that contains a
user name, client IP address, an access mode (full/view only) and a client system time.
9.15 Monitoring Controllers When the MegaRAID Storage Manager software is running, you can see the status of all
the controllers in the left panel. If a controller is operating normally, the controller icon
looks like this:
. If a controller has failed, a small red circle appears next to the icon.
To display the complete controller information, click on a controller icon in the left
panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager main menu. The controller properties appear
in the right panel as shown in the following figure. Most of the information on this tab
is self-explanatory.
Figure 253: Controller Properties
The Rebuild rate, Patrol read rate, Reconstruction rate, Consistency check rate, and BGI
rate (background initialization) are all user selectable. For more information, see
Section 8.4, Changing Adjustable Task Rates .
The BBU Present field indicates whether a battery backup unit is installed or not.