Smart Storage Administrator (SSA) Version 5.10-44.0 1/20/2021 Description ----------- Smart Storage Administrator (SSA) is the storage configuration, diagnostics, and management utility for SmartRAID and SmartHBA adapters. * All other product names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies. Supported Operating Systems and Platforms ----------------------------------------- Linux 32-bit components: SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Linux 64-bit components: SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (x86_64) SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86_64) SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 (x86_64) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (x86_64) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (x86_64) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (x86_64) NOTE: For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 the sg driver must be manually added so that it is loaded at boot time. Without the sg driver being loaded, devices or controllers may not be discovered. Here is a recommended way to do this: sudo echo sg > /etc/modules-load.d/sg.conf sudo rebo * Any platform that requires the CCISS driver should use version 3.6.28 or newer. Supported Client Side Browsers ------------------------------ Mozilla Firefox 9.0 or later Google Chrome Microsoft Internet Explorer 9.0 or above * Please make sure the following browser options are enabled: 1. Automatically load images and other data types. 2. JavaScript. 3. Style sheets. Supported Controllers --------------------- Dynamic Smart Array B110i SATA RAID Smart Array P212 Controller Smart Array P410 Controller Smart Array P410i Controller Smart Array P411 Controller Smart Array P711m Controller Smart Array P712m Controller Smart Array P812 Controller Dynamic Smart Array B120i Dynamic Smart Array B320i Smart Array P220i Controller Smart Array P222 Controller Smart Array P420 Controller Smart Array P420i Controller Smart Array P421 Controller Smart Array P721m Controller Smart Array P822 Controller Smart Array P230i Controller Smart Array P430 Controller Smart Array P431 Controller Smart Array P530 Controller Smart Array P531 Controller Smart Array P731m Controller Smart Array P830 Controller Smart Array P830i Controller Dynamic Smart Array B140i Smart HBA H240 Controller Smart HBA H240ar Controller Smart HBA H240nr Controller Smart HBA H241 Controller Smart HBA H244br Controller Smart Array P240nr Controller Smart Array P244br Controller Smart Array P246br Controller Smart Array P440 Controller Smart Array P440ar Controller Smart Array P441 Controller Smart Array P542D Controller Smart Array P741m Controller Smart Array P840 Controller Smart Array P840ar Controller Smart Array P841 Controller Adaptec SmartHBA-SA Adaptec SmartHBA-SA 8i Adaptec SmartHBA-SA 8i8e Adaptec SmartHBA-SA 8e Adaptec SmartHBA-SA 16i Adaptec SmartHBA-SA 4i4e Microsemi Adaptec HBA 1000-16i Microsemi Adaptec HBA 1000-16e Microsemi Adaptec HBA 1000-8i8e Microsemi Adaptec HBA 1000-8i Microsemi Adaptec HBA 1000-8e Installing and running Smart Storage Administrator -------------------------------------------------------------- Installation: SSA is distributed using Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) packages. If there is an older version of SSA installed on the system, please use "rpm -e ssa" to remove it first. Use "rpm -i " to install the service. Please type "man rpm" for other details regarding RPM. The software resides in /opt/smartstorageadmin/ssa and the executable name is ssa which is located in /usr/sbin. Run the SSA client on the local server as an application: Requirements: . You must run ssa as root . You must be running on a . The background process will create a port on the loopback interface which is not visible to external network connections. 1. Run the ssa command (/usr/sbin/ssa) with the "-local" parameter. The background program will start and launch the firefox browser. 2. To change the default browser that is started, or to specify the command to use to launch the browser, modify the browserstart.sh script (under /opt/smartstorageadmin/ssa/bin) with the correct path. 3. To exit the application, close the main application window. Additional Notes ---------------- 1. To properly exit out of the SSA session, click on the Exit (X) link in the SSA window. 2. If all physical drives on a controller fail or are removed, software keys will not be saved to the controller. 3. SSA may appear unresponsive during heavy array controller I/O conditions, such as during a partition format or a logical drive rebuild. 4. Some browsers allow pop-ups to be turned off or blocked. For SSA to run, pop-ups must be enabled in the browser. 5. When using Linux as the host operating system, if a Smart RAID/HBA controller has 16 or more volumes configured, deleting any volume in the SSA will not update the /proc/partitions to reflect the deletion of the device node associated with that volume. Rebooting the server will cause the update to happen. Note that there is also a limitation that only the first 16 volumes configured will be available to the operating system. 6. When using Internet Explorer 9.0 or later to run SSA remotely, choosing the "Save Report" link to download a copy of the diagnostic report may cause the information bar to appear with the following message: "To help protect your security, Windows Internet Explorer blocked this site from downloading files to your computer. Click here for more options..." Even if the "download file" action is clicked in the information bar, the file download is blocked and the report is not downloaded. In order to successfully download the file: * Choose to view the report first and then save the file, or * Disable automatic download blocking by enabling automatic prompting for file downloads. To access the setting that controls automatic download blocking: a) Click Tools, and then click Internet Options. The Internet Options dialog box appears. b) Click the Security tab. The Internet Options dialog box shows the security levels and zones. Select the current security zone for the server that is running SSA. c) Click Custom Level. The Security Settings dialog box appears. d) Scroll down to Downloads, and then select the Enable option for Automatic prompting for file downloads. Support ------- For support for PSA and Microsemi/Adaptec RAID controllers and HBAs, please visit http://www.microsemi.com Acknowledgements ---------------- The following icons were designed by Freepik from www.flaticon.com - Port - None This application uses the following third party components, and reference to the licenses used are located in their respective JavaScript files: Node.js (c) Node.js contributors Backbone.js (c) 2010-2014 Jeremy Ashkenas, DocumentCloud and Investigative Reporters & Editor jQuery (c) 2005, 2014 jQuery Foundation, Inc. jQuery Migrate (c) 2005, 2013 jQuery Foundation, Inc. and other contributors jQuery UI (c) 2013 jQuery Foundation and other contributors jquery.scrollto.js (c) 2012 Yannick Albert trunk8 (c) 2012 Rick Viscomi Underscore.js (c) 2009-2014 Jeremy Ashkenas, DocumentCloud and Investigative Reporters & Editors gulp (c) 2013-2016 Fractal contact@wearefractal.com gulp-sass (c) 2013 David Manning gulp-autoprefixer (c) Sindre Sorhus sindresorhus@gmail.com (sindresorhus.com) gulp-clean-css (c) 2017 scniro scniro@outlook.com zlib (c) 1995-2005 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler zip/unzip (c) 1998-2005 Gilles Vollant