Monitoring extensible storage locations
Windows DS-Systems can automatically detect if any extensible storage location cannot be accessed.
Linux DS-Systems cannot automatically detect if a file system is mounted. Instead, you can configure the DS-System to monitor the mount points of the storage locations. Linux DS-System will perform the check every 5 minutes.
To configure mount point monitoring on a Linux DS-System:
1. On the Setup menu, click Storage, and then click Mount-point Monitor. The Mount-Point Monitoring dialog box appears.
2. Check beside each mount point you want to monitor.
• You should monitor all mount points used as storage locations. The first mount point listed is the root folder of the DS-System computer.
For both Windows and Linux DS-Systems:
• When monitoring extensible storage locations, if DS-System detects a storage problem, it will stop all current activities and interrupt all connections to the DS-System storage.
• For the first inaccessible mount point detected, one notification email will be sent to the address configured in the
Administrator Notification settings (see:
“Configuring the notification settings”).
• DS-System will remain in this frozen state, and will check if the storage locations are accessible every 2 minutes.
• When all storage locations are accessible, DS-System will automatically revert to its normal state and will accept incoming connections.