5.1 Notification Processing Center

A management program is much more useful when it includes a reporting or notification function. For this reason, RAIDWatch allows you to configure notifications which occur in response to various disk array events. The notification application is called, "Notification Processing Center" or NPC.

The notification function makes it possible to manage (or monitor) the disk array system even when the administrator is away from the manager station. When properly configured, this function can notify the administrator of event occurrences in a RAID array instantly even when he or she is at home, or in other places around the globe.

RAIDWatch NPC provides five methods of sending notifications:

You can use any or all of the notification methods mentioned above. In order to use a particular method, you must have the proper hardware (like a modem for pager notification) and software (like Windows NT with the window messaging subsystem for e-mail message notification) installed in your system.

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