Areca

The Areca plugin cyclically queries the status of the hard drives in the RAID system of a G-Scope. To this end, it uses SDK provided by Areca Technology Corporation, the manufacturer of the installed RAID controller.

If a defective disk is found, the plugin sends a SystemError action. It contains the information storage error, Raid HDD error and the ID of the defective disk.

Reactions to this action can be defined as usual by creating corresponding behavior rules in G-Set.

Installation

Starting from version 2.0, the Areca plugin is a standard feature in G-Core. A requirement for the use of the Areca plugin is a G-Scope with an integrated Areca RAID controller and the corresponding G-Core version.

Add the Plugin

After successful installation of G-Core, the G-Core server starts automatically and loads all present plugins. After the start of G-Set, the Areca plugin can be added under Hardware.

Configuration

Using the registry key TimerPeriod, the interval for the hard-drive checks can be defined. If no registry key is set, a default value of 30,000 milliseconds is used.

The entered timer period must be at least 15,000 milliseconds.