# Using Identify to work with your systems

When you click Identify for a tree object, the ServeRAID Manager makes the hardware light associated with the selected tree object flash.

Depending on what you clicked in the tree, you can identify the following:

- A drive
- All drives
- A channel of drives
- A logical drive
- All logical drives
- An array
- A spanned array
- All arrays

You can make only one selection at a time. The hardware will continue flashing until you click OK in the message window.

Identify works only on controllers with a SAF-TE processor and the appropriate firmware. The processor uses a SCSI ID; therefore, it is displayed in the tree as the following:

Enclosure

If a drive light or a series of drive lights do not flash, it is because all or part of the subsystem is not controlled by a SAF-TE processor.

For example, if SCSI channel 1 has a SAF-TE processor, but SCSI channel 3 does not, and you select to identify all physical drives, only SCSI channel 1 will flash.

Identify is particularly useful for enclosures, such as the Netfinity EXP15. You can use Identify to clarify which drives in the enclosure you need to work with, before you pull them out of the enclosure.

If a SAF-TE processor is present and the controller supports drive identification, you can identify the components by doing the following:

Right-click: | To identify...
Controller | All physical drives on the controller
Arrays | All physical drives in all arrays
Logical drives | All physical drives in all logical drives
Physical drives | All physical drives
Hot-spare drives | All hot-spare drives
Array [number] | All physical drives in the selected array
Spanned array [number] | All physical drives in the selected spanned array
Logical drive [number] | All physical drives in the selected logical drive
Logical drives in array [number] | All physical drives in the selected logical drives
Logical drives in spanned array [number] | All physical drives in the selected logical drives
Physical drive [number] | The selected physical drive.
Physical drives in array [number] | All physical drives in the selected array
Physical drives in spanned array [number] | All physical drives in the selected array
Channel [number] | All physical drives on the selected channel

## More information

- Identifying drives (action)
- ServeRAID and LED flash states

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