LSI Storage Authority Application Overview

The LSI Storage Authority application is a web-based application that lets you monitor, maintain, troubleshoot, and configure MegaRAID products. The LSI Storage Authority graphical user interface (GUI) helps you to view, create, and manage storage configurations.

• Monitoring and Configuring: The LSI Storage Authority application lets you monitor the controllers and configure the drives on the controller.

  The application displays the status of the controller cards, volumes, and drives on the controller. The device status icons are displayed on their respective pages to notify you in case of drive failures and other events that require your immediate attention. Real-time email notifications on the status of the server are sent based on your alert settings. The system errors and events are recorded and displayed in an event log file. Additionally, you can also import or clear foreign configurations.

• Maintaining: Using the LSI Storage Authority application, you can perform system maintenance tasks, such as updating the controller firmware.

• Troubleshooting: The LSI Storage Authority application displays information that is related to drive failures, device failures, and so on.

  The application also provides recommendations and displays contextual links, helping you to easily locate drives and devices that have issues and troubleshoot them. In addition, you can download a complete report of all the devices and their configurations, properties, and settings and send it to the support teams for further analysis and troubleshooting.