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Filtering storage systems
The Arrays window provides a Filter button you can use to filter out storage 
systems that do not meet certain criteria. This feature is particularly useful 
if Navigator 2 is managing a large number of HItachi storage systems and 
you only want to see a subset of them.
To filter storage systems
1. In the Arrays window, click the Filter button. The Array List Filter 
window appears (see Figure 7-4)....

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Removing storage systems
If you no longer require Navigator 2 to manage a storage system, you can 
remove the storage system entry from the Navigator 2 database.
To remove a storage system
1. In the Arrays window, click the checkbox next to the storage system you 
want to delete.
2. Click the Remove Array button. The selected storage system is 
removed from the Arrays window and from the Navigator 2 database.
Running error...

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Figure 7-5:  Error-Monitoring Options
Table 7-3:  All Array Status and Error Monitoring Descriptions
FieldDescription
All Array Status Shows the status for all storage systems that Navigator 2 is 
managing:
•Normal = all registered storage systems are working 
properly.
• The characters ---: = Navigator 2 cannot identify the 
storage system (for example, if the storage system power 
supply is off, a network communication problem...

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Configuring error monitoring options
Navigator 2 comes with preset error-monitoring options. Before you enable 
error monitoring, review the settings for these options and, if necessary, 
change them to suit your requirements.
To configure error monitoring options
1. In the Arrays window, click the Edit Error Monitoring Options button 
The Edit Error Monitoring Options window appears (see Figure 7-6).
Figure 7-6:  Edit Error...

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Configuring email notifications
You can configure Navigator 2 to send email notifications when errors are 
detected. To enable this function, complete the Set up E-mail Alert window 
in the Initial (Setup) Array wizard. This wizard ran automatically when you 
started Navigator 2 for the first time. If you did not enable this feature at 
that time, or if you enabled it and now want to disable it, run the Initial 
(Setup) Array...

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Error messages
If a storage system error occurs with error monitoring running, a log file is 
generated that contains error information. The information is stored in a file 
named errlog.txt in the Navigator 2 installation folder. The error log text 
file uses the following format: 
Day, Month hh:mm:ss yyyy//
Table 7-5 lists the log messages for Hitachi AMS 2000 storage systems.
Table 7-5:  Log Messages 
MessageDescription...

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Managing alerts and events
W h e n  y o u  s e l e c t  a n  a r r a y  f r o m  t h e  A r r a y s  w i n d o w,  t h e  c e n t e r  p a n e  d i s p l a y s  
the Alerts & Events option (see Figure 7-7). Clicking this option displays 
the Alerts & Events window. This window contains the following two tabs:
• Alert Parts displays alerts if there is a hardware problem (see Figure 7-
8 on page 7-14).
• Event Log displays all...

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Figure 7-8:  Example of the Alert Parts Tab
Figure 7-9:  Example of the Event Log Tab 

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Managing RAID Groups
This chapter describes how to manage RAID group on Hitachi 
AMS 2000 Family storage systems using Navigator 2.
The topics covered in this chapter are:
ˆOverview
ˆDisplaying the RAID Groups tab
ˆCreating a RAID group
ˆExpanding RAID groups
ˆDisplaying detailed RAID group properties
ˆExecuting a RAID group spin-up or spin-down
ˆChanging RAID group expansion priority
ˆFiltering RAID groups
ˆDeleting RAID groups 

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Overview
A RAID group can be considered as a RAID container for data protection. It 
can contain single or multiple parity groups. The parity groups are partitions 
of the RAID container. When you set up a RAID group, you can specify 
multiple parity groups for the RAID group that enhances performance and 
provides better drive access and drive rebuilding capability.
Logical units are created in a RAID group or a Dynamic...