RAID Admin: Components is Red?

We recently suffered a power drop in our edit suites and afterwards, I checked the status of our RAID (which was connected to a UPS) using RAID Admin. There are a series of buttons in the screen which denotes a status of the Arrays and Drives, Components, Fibre Channel and Network. All are green except for Components. When I click on the Components button, it shows me a diagram/image of the back of the RAID and all of the areas are lit with green dots. Note:, I am only really using the Upper Controller (Drives 1-7-- actually Drives 1-4). The right side, controlled by the Lower controller (Drive 8-14) , is not populated with any drives. This has been the case ever since we've had the RAID.
Also, when I go to the EVENTS tab, I see an error/yellow button that notes: _RAID Controller 1 Fibre LIP_. Just below it, with a green button, its says: _RAID Controller 1 Fibre Link Up_. (Same time and date) So I'm not sure what the yellow button/message means. The RAID seems to be working fine but I thought I'd better check further. Thanks for any help that is offered.

I am having an almost identical problem to your, though we didn't suffer any power drops. But over the past year everything was working fine with RAID Admin. Then one day I went to use it and it was not recognizing the Xserve RAID anymore, so I deleted the name in the RAID Admin application with the intention of just adding the system again but it did not show up. So I decided to reset both the controllers on the Xserve RAID. Once I did that, I was able to add the system again to the RAID Admin window. It showed up right away. I thought I was home free, but the components circle is RED (all others are green). To the right of it, it says its "Gathering info…" but it has been spinning for the last 5 minutes since I added it. Down below, if I click on the Components tab and look at the diagram - all the components have a green circle. When I click on the top controller in the diagram it says the status is "OK" and show the cache size and firmware version, but when I click on the lower controller, it says "OK" also but it refuses to list the cache size and the firmware version. I also noticed under the Arrays and Drives tab, the picture of the RAID drives only shows my array on the left side, it does not show my RAID on the right side as if it doesn't exist. With all this, our RAID system is working fine and serving our users data with no complaints at all. But I am concerned about the red circle for the components. The reason why I went into RAID admin in the first place is because I was going to update the firmware but now I'm concerned. If anybody has any insight to as what I have to do to get things back to normal I would appreciate it.

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... depending on the meaning of "seriously"!
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was on it) is gone.
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William, thanks for your response, comments inline below:
I have not personally experienced any of the first 3
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different systems, and monitored 100+ RAIDs, over the
past 3 years.
... it is good to hear a general level of satisfaction...
Are you experiencing this on just one system --
have you ever tried another machine?
What do you mean? We have one X Serve, and one RAID, and that's the one we need to admin. How would we introduce another machine into the scenario?
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