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What’s the difference between...?, Adaptec Storage Manager and the Agent?, Event notifications

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Appendix C: Quick Answers to Common Questions... ● 164 What's the difference between...? Adaptec Storage Manager and the Agent? Adaptec Storage Manager is the full software application, including the user interface (windows, menus) described in this User's Guide. It helps you build and maintain the logical drives, controllers, and disk drives that make up your storage space. The Agent is like a service that keeps your storage space running. Its job is to monitor system health and manage event notifications, tasks schedules, and other on-going processes on each system in your storage space. The Agent can run independently of the full application. See About Adaptec Storage Manager on page 14 for more information. Event notifications, email notifications, and event alerts? Event notifications (also called logged notifications) are messages about events on one system that are sent to the event log of another system in your storage space. (See page 106.) Email notifications are email messages about events on a system in your storage space that are sent to specified users. (See page 111.) Event alerts are pop-up messages or console messages about all types of events on a specific system, which are broadcast to all the users who are logged into your storage space. (See page 117.) What options are on the Actions menu? You can also access many Action menu options by right-clicking a component. For example, right-click on a system to access most of the options shown in Local and remote systems below. See About the Actions Menu on page 44 for more information. Local and remote systems In the Enterprise View, click on a system. In the menu bar, select Actions to view these options: Then select Action actions to view these options:

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Appendix C: Quick Answers to Common Questions...
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164
What’s the difference between...?
Adaptec Storage Manager and the Agent?
Adaptec Storage Manager is the full software application, including the user interface
(windows, menus) described in this
User’s Guide
. It helps you build and maintain the logical
drives, controllers, and disk drives that make up your storage space.
The Agent is like a service that keeps your storage space running. Its job is to monitor system
health and manage event notifications, tasks schedules, and other on-going processes on each
system in your storage space. The Agent can run independently of the full application.
See
About Adaptec Storage Manager
on page 14
for more information.
Event notifications, email notifications, and event alerts?
Event notifications (also called logged notifications) are messages about events on one system
that are sent to the event log of another system in your storage space.
(See
page 106
.)
Email notifications are email messages about events on a system in your storage space that are
sent to specified users.
(See
page 111
.)
Event alerts are pop-up messages or console messages about all types of events on a specific system,
which are broadcast to all the users who are logged into your storage space. (See
page 117
.)
What options are on the Actions menu?
You can also access many Action menu options by right-clicking a component. For example,
right-click on a system to access most of the options shown in
Local and remote systems
below.
See
About the Actions Menu
on page 44
for more information.
Local and remote systems
In the Enterprise View, click on a system. In the menu bar, select
Actions
to view these options:
Then select
Action actions
to view these
options: