MANAGING THE WD SENTINEL SERVER (DASHBOARD)
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WD SENTINEL RX4100
ADMINISTRATOR AND MAINTENANCE GUIDE
Health Tab
The
Health
tab and related tasks enable you to monitor the status of the storage drives,
RAID configuration, power supplies, temperatures, fans, CPU, and network connections.
To open the
Health
tab, click the
Monitor
icon on the navigation bar:
Settings
Description
Network Health
Ethernet 1 & 2
Displays the status (Connected or Not connected) of the server's network
connection(s). If you use both Ethernet ports and one fails, the other
takes over, allowing the WD Sentinel server to remains operational over
the network.
Storage
Displays storage information associated with the WD Sentinel server. The
WD Sentinel server holds up to four of WD’s hard drives optimized for
quality, reliability and performance and features RAID 5 to enhance
performance and data protection.
RAID is an acronym for Redundant Array of Independent Disks. The
server uses RAID 5, which offers fast performance by striping data across
all drives. This arrangement protects data by dedicating a quarter of each
drive to fault tolerance, leaving three quarters of the system capacity
available for data storage.
Type:
RAID level
Total Capacity:
Maximum amount of storage space (TB) available.
Available Capacity:
Amount of storage (TB) left available for use.
Alert Threshold:
The percentage of storage capacity used above which
you receive alert notifications that the storage is approaching maximum
threshold.
Status:
The status of the server storage may be:
•
Healthy–All drives are in the optimal state.
•
Degraded–A single drive failed; data is protected, but
performance is degraded. (A failed drive must be replaced with a
healthy drive as soon as possible to fully protect your server and
data.)
Status of drives 1-4:
The status of a drive may be:
•
Normal
•
Failed!: Visit WD Store to replace.
•
CAUTION: Imminent failure detected. Please replace this hard
drive immediately.
