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MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide Chapter 9: Monitoring Controllers and Its Attached Devices | Monitoring Enclosures
You can change the read policy, write policy, and other virtual drive properties. To
change these properties, see
Changing Virtual Drive Properties .
NOTE: You can change the Read Policy, Write Policy, and other virtual drive properties
by selecting the virtual drive icon and then selecting Go To->Virtual Drive ->Set
Virtual Drive Properties in the menu bar.
If the drives in the virtual drive are in a disk enclosure, you can identify them by making
their LEDs blink. To identify the drives, follow these steps:
1. Click the virtual drive icon in the left panel.
2. Either select Go To->Virtual Drive->Start Locating Virtual Drive, or right-click a
virtual drive and select Start Locating Virtual Drive from the menu.
The LEDs on the drives in the virtual drive start blinking (except for the hot spare
drives).
3. To stop the LEDs from blinking, select Go To->Virtual Drive->Stop Locating
Virtual Drive or right-click a virtual drive and select Stop Locating Virtual Drive
from the menu.
9.19 Monitoring Enclosures When the MegaRAID Storage Manager software is running, you can see the status of all
enclosures connected to the server by selecting the Physical tab in the left panel. If an
enclosure is operating normally, the icon looks like this:
. If an enclosure is not
functioning normally—for example, if a fan has failed—an orange, yellow, or red circle
appears to the right of the icon.
Information about the enclosure appears in the right panel when you select the
Properties tab on the main menu screen. A graphical display of enclosure information
appears when you select the Graphical View tab.
The display in the center of the screen shows how many slots of the enclosure are
actually populated by the drives and the lights on the drives show the drive status. The
information on the right shows you the status of the temperature sensors, fans, and
power supplies in the enclosure.
To view the enclosure properties, in the physical view click on the Enclosure node. The
Enclosure Properties are displayed, as shown in the following figure.