Logging In to Remote Systems

If your storage space spans multiple systems on your network, you can use Adaptec Storage Manager to monitor and manage all of them from one system.

The system that you’re working on is called the local system. All other systems in your storage space are remote systems. ‘Local’ and ‘remote’ are relative terms—when you are working on system A (local system), system B is a remote system; when you are working on system B (local system), system A is a remote system.

To manage remote systems from the local system, you log in to them. (Adaptec Storage Manager encrypts the user name and password of a remote system during log-in.) Adaptec Storage Manager or the Adaptec Storage Manager Agent must be running on the remote system before you can log in to it.

When you log in to a remote system, you add that system to the Enterprise View of Adaptec Storage Manager. (Show Me!)

Once you have logged in to a remote system, it is automatically included in the Enterprise View each time you start Adaptec Storage Manager from the local system. You can work with its controllers, disk drives, and logical devices as if they were part of your local system. You must log in with the proper permission level to complete the tasks you wish to perform.

You can log into remote systems individually in Adaptec Storage Manager, or use the Remote system wizard to help you manage the remote systems in your storage space.