Locating Drive Enclosures on a Drive Channel

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Use the Locate option to physically locate and identify all drive enclosures attached to a particular drive channel. An indicator light is activated on each drive enclosure in the storage subsystem.

Procedure

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From the Subsystem Management Window, select either the Storage Subsystem >> Locate >> Drive Channels pull-down menu option, or use the right mouse button to select the storage subsystem in the Logical View and select Locate >> Drive Channels from the right-mouse pop-up menu. Select the drive channel of interest from the sub-menu.

Result: The Locate Drive Channel dialog is displayed. The indicator lights on all drive enclosures on the selected drive channel in the storage subsystem flash.

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When you have located the drive enclosures, select OK.

Result: The lights stop flashing. If any other Locate operations (Locate Storage Subsystem, Locate Array, Locate Drive Enclosure, Locate Drive) are being invoked from another storage management station, these lights also stop flashing.

Note: If the lights from the Locate Drive Channel operation do not stop flashing, use the Stop All Indications option to stop the process manually.

How to Stop All Indicator Lights

Use the Stop All Indications option in the rare case when a Locate operation has not properly closed and the controller continues to flash the indicator lights on the storage subsystem drive enclosures. Normally, the indicator lights stop flashing when you select OK in the Locate Storage Subsystem, Locate Drive Channels, Locate Array, Locate Drive Enclosure, or Locate Drive dialogs.

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Either select the Storage Subsystem >> Locate >> Stop All Indications pull-down menu option, or use the right mouse button to select the storage subsystem in the Logical View and select Locate >> Stop All Indications from the pop-up menu.

Result: All indicator lights that were flashing because of any Locate operation will stop.

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If indicator lights are successfully stopped, a confirmation message is displayed. Select OK on this message box to close it.

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Locating a Storage Subsystem

Locating an Array

Locating a Drive Enclosure

Locating a Drive