Remote Management

Another way in which you can check for a failed drive and check the drive’s details is through some forms of OOB Remote Management’s control panel.

Most new remote management’s control panel versions will allow you to monitor the RAID array and drive health; while showing you any failed drives and the physical drive’s details. Some older forms of OOB control panels, however, will not allow you to do this.

The benefits of this options is that it allows you to check the drive health and the drive’s details without any downtime. However, the remote management will have to have been already setup on the server to use it. We can add remote management at after a server is activated; but this will require downtime.