Setting the Patrol Read Properties
Perform these steps to set the Patrol Read properties.
- Select More Actions > Set Patrol Read Properties in the Controller Dashboard.The Available Logical Drives dialog appears.
- Select the logical drives for which you want to set the Patrol Read properties and click Add Logical Drives.The Set Patrol Read Properties dialog appears.
- Click Select Logical Drives.
Click the
icon to remove the logical drives you have already added.
- Click Next.
- Perform these steps to set the properties:
- Select an operation mode for patrol read from the Set Patrol Read Mode drop-down list.The options follow:
- Automatic – The Patrol Read operation runs automatically at the time interval you specify.
- Manual – The Patrol Read operation runs only when you manually start it, by selecting Start Patrol Read from the Controller Dashboard.
- Disabled – The Patrol Read operation does not run.
- (Optional) – Specify a maximum number of drives to include in the Patrol Read operation concurrently.The count must be a number from 1 to 255.
- Select the frequency at which the Patrol Read operation runs from the drop-down list.The default frequency is Weekly (168 hours), which is suitable for most configurations. The other options are Hourly, Daily, and Monthly.
- Select the month, day, and year on which to start the Patrol Read operation.
- Select the time of day to start the Patrol Read operation.
- (Optional) – Select the Start Patrol Read Now check box.
- (Optional) – Select the Run Patrol Read Non-Stop check box.
- Select an operation mode for patrol read from the Set Patrol Read Mode drop-down list.
- Click Finish.You can monitor the progress of the Patrol Read operation. See Background Operations Support.