Appendix A: Quick Answers to Common Questions... ● 150What’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 logicaldrives, 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 systemhealth and manage event notifications, tasks schedules, and other on-going processes on eachsystem in your storage space. The Agent can run independently of the full application.See About Adaptec Storage Manager on page 17 for more information.Internal RAID and External RAID branches of the Enterprise View?The Internal RAID branch helps you manage the local and remote systems in your storagespace that have internal (or direct-attached) storage—a RAID controller and disk drivesresiding inside or directly attached to the system. Internal RAID storage can only be accessed bythe system to which it is attached. This User’s Guide addresses the internal RAID branch only.The External RAID branch helps you set up and manage external storage—one or more RAIDcontrollers and multiple disk drives that reside in a server, and which is shared among multiplesystems on a LAN. For more information, refer to the Adaptec Web site at www.adaptec.com.Event notifications, email notifications, and event alerts?Event notifications (also called logged notifications) are messages about events on one systemthat are sent to the Event Viewer of another system in your storage space. (See page 94.)Email notifications are email messages about events on a system in your storage space that aresent to specified users. (See page 100.)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 106.)ORLocal system with RAIDcontroller and diskdrives installedLocal systemServer with RAIDcontroller and diskdrives installedStorage space resides here,not at individual systems.Server with RAID controllerand disk drives installedLocal SystemLAN
