LSI Storage Authority Overview

LSI Storage Authority Overview

The LSI Storage Authority® (LSA) software is a web-based application that enables multiple users to perform monitoring, maintaining, troubleshooting, and configuration functions for the LSI MegaRAID® products. The LSI Storage Authority graphical user interface (GUI) makes it easy for you to view the existing server hardware configuration. It also helps you to create and manage storage configurations.

Monitoring Storage Devices

The software displays the status of the controller cards, virtual drives, and drives on the controller. The device status icons are displayed on the pages to notify drive failures and other events that require immediate attention. Real-time email notifications (based on the alert settings) about the status of the server are sent to the user. The system errors and events are recorded in an event log file and are displayed.

Maintaining Storage Devices

You can use the software to perform system maintenance tasks, such as, updating the controller firmware.

Troubleshooting Storage Devices

The software displays critical issues of failed devices and provides recommendations for troubleshooting. Additionally, the software displays contextual links, which helps you to easily locate the device and initiate troubleshooting. You can import or clear foreign configurations. The software also provides Diagnostics, which is a complete report of the all the devices and it's configurations, properties, and settings. You can download this complete report and send it to the LSI support team for further troubleshooting.

Monitoring and Configuring Storage Devices

The software enables you to monitor the controllers and configure the virtual drives and drives on the controller. You can easily create new storage configurations and modify the configurations.