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Document Number: 105-01-0001
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2002/2/19
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2002/8/7
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Leo Chan/
FISC CDH English User's Guide
Henry Ho
v4.10
Henry
FISC CDH English User's Guide
v4.20

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  • Page 1 Document Number: 105-01-0001 Revision History: Revision Date Author Description 2002/2/19 Leo Chan/ FISC CDH English User’s Guide Henry Ho v4.10 2002/8/7 Henry FISC CDH English User’s Guide v4.20...
  • Page 2 FISC CDH Versatile Network Attached Storage Server User’s Guide Version 4.20 Part Number: 5019.14016...
  • Page 3 Important Notice Trademarks FISC CDH and Ingrasys are trademarks of Ingrasys Technology Inc. Microsoft® is a registered trademark. DOS, Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT are the registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. NetWare is the registered trademarks of Novell Inc.
  • Page 4 Ingrasys reserves the right to revise this publication without notice. Copyright © 2002 Ingrasys Technology Inc. All rights reserved. First Edition, August, 2000 Updated in August, 2002 Printed in Taiwan...
  • Page 5 Electronic Emission Notice Federal Communications Commission (FCC) This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a residential environment.
  • Page 6 Safety Information To reduce the risk of fire or electric shock, install the unit in a temperature-controlled indoor area free of conductive contaminants. Do not place the unit near liquids or in an excessively humid environment. Do not allow liquids or foreign objects to enter the unit. All servicing of this equipment must be performed by qualified service personnel.

  • Page 7: Table Of Contents

    TABLE OF CONTENT CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION ..........1 CD S .......1 ERVER AND ERVER UILT CHAPTER 2 INSTALLING THE FISC CDH ......3 FISC CDH..........3 ONNECTING THE ......5 NSTALLING MOUNT ODELS FISC CDH........... 11 ONFIGURING ............13 IRMWARE PGRADE ............14 VENT OTIFICATION ..........15...
  • Page 8 CD-R/RW D ..50 ECORDING IRRORED MAGE CHAPTER 7 RAID CONFIGURATION ........53 RAID G ....53 DDING A ROUP NGROUPING RAID ............55 NITIALIZING ..........55 RIVES ..........58 HINGS HOULD CHAPTER 8 TAPE BACKUP............59 ............59 ETTING TATUS .............60 ACKUP OLUMES ............61 ESTORE OLUMES CHAPTER 9 ARCHIVE .............64 ................64 ............65...

  • Page 9: Chapter 1 Introduction

    CD/DVD devices or ATA-100 hard drives, depending on your task requirements. FISC CDH gives you the flexibility you need to share a large quantity of CD information. Empowered by super high speed CD caching and mirroring functions, you can benefit from the smooth and immediate CD sharing.
  • Page 10 Universal Utilization Fitting in a variety of network environments has always been the focus of the FISC CD family of products. The FISC CDH functions perfectly under most of the network environments such as Microsoft Windows, Novell NetWare, Apple Macintosh, UNIX and Web browsers.

  • Page 11: Chapter 2 Installing The Fisc Cdh

    2.1.1 Connecting cables within a tower case After you take a FISC CDH controller out of the box, please follow the steps below to connect all the cables. 1. Fix the power control board on the back of the tower case.
  • Page 12 6. Connect the supplied ATX power cable with the power control board (DBrd) and the ATX power supply. 7. Connect the power switch (trigger switch) cable of the tower case to the power control board. C cable power switch cable from the controller from the tower case ATX power cable...
  • Page 13 Installing The Rack-mount Models 2.2.1 Setup and inspection procedure After you take a FISC CDH chassis out of the box, please verify the following items: 1. Loosen the screws in front and at the back of the chassis and remove the top cover of it. Store screws in a safe place.
  • Page 14 • Accessory Box (contains screws and cable accessory) • 4 IDE cables with label sticker near both ends • Power Cord 3. Make sure the power supply; the main board and the power board are tightly attached to the chassis. 4.
  • Page 15 Connecting the CD-ROM/R/RW or DVD drive onto the chassis (FISC CDH PRO) 1. FISC CDH uses removable metal rails that are mounted to the drive, attach the rails to both side of the drive using two screws per rail as shown.
  • Page 16 This procedure provides instructions for installing hard disk drives into the FISC CDH system. 1. FISC CDH uses removable metal box into which hard disk drives are mounted. You have to remove the metal box first, place the hard disk drive on the metal box, and then use four...
  • Page 17 2. Finally, sliding the metal box on the chassis as shown. Use two screws to mount the metal box on the chassis to ensure that it fits properly.
  • Page 18 2.2.3 Connecting the cables to the FISC CDH main board 1. Determine which end of the interface connector is PIN 1. Hard disks usually have PIN 1 of the connector next to the drive’s power connector. 2. Connect the IDE cables as indicated on the label, which is...
  • Page 19 1. Make sure the power switch on the power supply at the back of the chassis is ON. 2. Make sure all you drives and the FISC CDH main board have a power connector attached to them correctly. 3. Check the IDE cables going to all the drives to make sure that you have lined up the red edge to PIN 1 of each device.
  • Page 20 IP address, etc. Enter Config? _ 3. In the config mode, there is a cursor on the LCD screen. Press the left or right button to move the cursor. Press the middle button to change the digit. IP Address: 192.168.1.1 4.

  • Page 21: Firmware Upgrade

    Firmware Upgrade The flash memory stores the operation system and all the functions of the FISC CDH. You can upgrade the FISC CDH by writing the firmware image to the flash memory. Please follow the next steps to upgrade the firmware: 1.

  • Page 22: Event Notification

    Event Notification The FISC CDH can notify the user of system events via event logs, LCD panel, and buzzer in the FISC CDH controller and/or email. To configure the settings related to the system event notification, please go to Server Settings on the Administration Page, and click the Event Log Setting button.

  • Page 23: Multi -Languages

    Multi-Language Support The FISC CDH has built in multi-language support of the web pages in the firmware, including both the Administration Page and the User Page. You only have to change the settings of their Internet browsers to see different languages of web pages instantly.
  • Page 24 2.6.2 Code-page selection To make the FISC CDH operate more smoothly under the OS platform other than English, it is suggested to adjust the code- page according to different OS platforms. To change the code-page setting, go to the Administration Page and enter the Server Settings page.

  • Page 25: Chapter 3 Configuring The Cd/Dvd Server Functions

    Configuring Network Settings 3.1.1 Enabling the network protocol support FISC CDH works perfectly in a heterogeneous network environment. It supports user access from different operating systems. The following steps describe how to configure the network settings for Windows users. Steps for other network protocols are similar.
  • Page 26 Click the Apply button to confirm and apply the changes. There must be an active DHCP server on the LAN if FISC CDH is using the DHCP protocol to get an IP address. It is the same...

  • Page 27: Direct Cd Accessing

    CD Record, which appears only if the CD drive is a CD-R or CD-RW device, means the device is used as an output device for burning CD-R or CD-RW discs out of the mirrored images in the FISC CDH.

  • Page 28: Cd Image Sharing

    CD Image Sharing If the FISC CDH is equipped with hard drives, it can duplicate CD/DVD discs into its hard drives in the form of CD/DVD images and share them as actual CD/DVD discs. To make a CD/DVD image, please follow the steps.
  • Page 29 On the HD Initialize page, select Mirror Device and click the OK button. To set a CD/DVD device as a mirroring source, go to Device Manager of the Administration Page, and click the CD/DVD device. Select CD Mirror as the Function setting. Mirror Options will appear immediately next to the Function setting.
  • Page 30 Specify Launch Target. Auto & Smart: checks if the CD/DVD image already exists when copying CD/DVD image. It will skip if an identical CD/DVD image already exists. Auto & Force: do not check if there exists an identical CD image. It will copy the CD/DVD image anyway.

  • Page 31: Copying Cd Into A File

    you configured as the CD Mirror source to start a mirroring job. If the mirroring is successful, a CD volume will appear in Share Manager*Share a Volume. Click the Share Enable check-box of the mirrored CD/DVD image to share it to network users.

  • Page 32: Limiting User Accesst

    Limiting User Access To CD Volumes For security reasons, administrators can limit user access on FISC CDH. For Windows, Macintosh and web users, either share or user level security applies. For NetWare and NFS users, user level security is supported.
  • Page 33 Enable Microsoft Network. Select User Level Security under the Security Policy item. Click the Apply button. FISC CDH can authenticate users by the user accounts stored in its local user database or the PDC server on LAN. To add users to the local user database, go to User...
  • Page 34 Manager*Local User. Click the Add User button. On the Add New User dialog window, enter user name/password and click the Add button. Repeat the previous step if you want to add more user accounts to the local user database. Click the Close button when you are done.

  • Page 35: User License Control

    On the page, click the Local User button. (If you want to add PDC users, click Windows.) Select users from the left-hand pane, and click the Add-> button to add users to the permission list. To remove users, select users from the right-hand pane, and click the <-Remove button.

  • Page 36: Renaming The 3.8 Mirror Password

    Enter a number for specifying how many concurrent connections are allowed to the share. Then click the Apply button. If you set the number to 0, the FISC CDH will set no limit on the maximum connections to that share.
  • Page 37 CD images into the storage server via the network. It also has some basic server management capability. For doing any modifications on FISC CDH via eConsole, one must provide a password for authentication. From server management point-of-view, there are two levels of privileges, i.e., two kinds of passwords.

  • Page 38: Chapter 4 Configuring The File Server Functions

    Chapter 4 Configuring The File Server Functions FISC CDH functions as a file server and a CD server at the same time. Each hard drive can be configured to contain either CD/DVD images (which is read-only), or files (which can be read only or read/write).
  • Page 39 After a hard drive is initialized as a Files Device, the HD Partition button appears just below the HD Initialize button. Click the HD Partition button. On the HD Partition page, select the size of the partition and assign a name for it (default name will be like F1001).

  • Page 40: Limiting User Accesst

    Limiting User Access To File Volumes For security reasons, administrators can limit the user access for each CD/file volume. The security controls for different network protocols are different. For Windows, Macintosh and web clients, both share- and user-level security are supported. For NetWare and NFS users, only user-level security is supported.
  • Page 41 button in the Security column next to the share of which you would like to limit the user access. On the Share Password page, select either Read Only or Full Control, and set the Share Password. Click the OK button to confirm the changes.
  • Page 42 Policy item. Click the Apply button. FISC CDH can authenticate users by the user accounts stored in its local user database or the PDC server on the LAN. To add users to the local user database, go to the User Manager page and click the Local User button on the left.

  • Page 43: Renaming Volumel

    hand pane, and click the <-Remove button. 10. Assign a user’s access right by selecting RO (Read only) or RW (Read/Write) below the Privileged groups/users pane. When done with assigning users, click the Apply button. 11. Now only those users who are granted access rights are able to read or write the share via Network Neighborhood under Windows.
  • Page 44 Click the hyperlink of the share in the Share Name column to go to a dialog window. Enter a new name and click the Apply button. Press the Close button to go to the previous menu.

  • Page 45: Accessing From Different Clients

    Chapter 5 Accessing From Different Clients The FISC CDH integrates itself into your network once the setup and configuration are completed. You can access the FISC CDH by means of the browsing and mapping tools coming with your network operating system. The following sections describe how to access the FISC CDH from your desktop in various client environments.
  • Page 46 Disabling the user access from web In case the administrator would like to prohibit users from accessing the FISC CDH via the web, he can disable this function. To do so, go to Network Settings on the Administration Page and click Web.
  • Page 47 Apply button. Using the FISC CDH Under Windows 95/98 From the user side, FISC CDH servers act like any computer or server on LAN. To use FISC CDH in Windows 95/98, first make sure that Windows Network support of FISC CDH is enabled. To do so, go to Network Settings on the Administration page and click Windows.
  • Page 48 FISC CDH appears as a computer icon in its workgroup. Double click the icon representing the FISC CDH. You will find all the shared folders in the FISC CDH. You can access any folders (if you have the access rights). It will prompt for user name and password if required.
  • Page 49 Only user level security is available under NetWare. You must have a user account to log on to the FISC CDH and thus be able to access its content. User accounts are stored either in the local user database or in a bindery server.
  • Page 50 Please note that, in the NetWare network environment, there must be at least one NetWare server other than the FISC CDH on the LAN. 5.4.1.1 Network Neighborhood under Windows Open Entire Network in Network Neighborhood. Find and double click the FISC CDH server. It will prompt for a user name and a password.
  • Page 51 Using The FISC CDH Under MacOS To use the FISC CDH under MacOS, first enable the Macintosh protocol support of the FISC CDH. Go to Network Settings on the Administration Page and click the Macintosh button on the left. Check the Enable Macintosh Network check-box and click the Apply button.
  • Page 52 Select a zone out of the AppleTalk Zones: pane. Select a server and click OK. Click Connect. A dialog box as below will pop up. Select a share item and click OK. A network folder will appear on Desktop. Then you can read or write to the folder depending on your access right.
  • Page 53 Double click any share item that you want to access. Using The FISC CDH Under NFS Clients To use the FISC CDH under NFS clients, first enable the NFS protocol support on the FISC CDH Administration Page. Please go to the Network Settings page and click the UNIX button on the left.
  • Page 54 5.6.1 How to use the FISC CDH under NFS clients The FISC CDH can export all NFS-mountable CD and file volumes to any NFS client. Below is a sample procedure of exporting a volume to a NFS client. Add a routing entry in the UNIX client host table:...

  • Page 55: Accessing The Chapter 6 Recording Cds

    NFS, you can issue the following command on a UNIX client: # showmount -e FISC Here is a snapshot from the FISC CDH of which the IP address is 164.164.67.2 and with 7 NFS mounted volumes. # showmount -e 164.164.67.2 Export list for 164.164.67.2:...
  • Page 56 FTP access with share level security First, set the share password of a share. Second, use a FTP client to log on to the FISC CDH server. Use the share name as the user name, and the share password as the password.
  • Page 57 You can assign local users and/or remote users retrieved from the Primary Domain Controller (PDC). Second, use a FTP client to log on to the FISC CDH server. Input the user name you just assigned and its user password.
  • Page 58 Chapter 6 Recording CDs With a supported CD-R/RW device attached, the FISC CDH can record mirrored images into CD-R/RW discs. Recording Mirrored Image Onto CD-R/RW Disc If connected with a supported CD-R/RW device, the FISC CDH can record (burn) a mirrored image onto a CD-R or CD-RW disc.
  • Page 59 Source sub-window. Multiple selection are permitted. Select Speed. If the selected speed is higher than the capability of the CD-R/RW device, the FISC CDH will change the speed automatically. Specify Number of Copies if you want burn the image onto several CD-R discs.
  • Page 60 If the Launch Schedule is Immediately or the schedule is over due, the screen will show the CD recording progress. After the CD recording process is finished, the FISC CDH returns to the normal CD Settings page.
  • Page 61 Chapter 7 RAID Configuration RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) is a group of hard disks that act as one, providing fault tolerance and/or increasing performance. Although hot-swap function is not available, FISC CDH supports RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 5. 7.1.1.1...
  • Page 62 To add or delete RAID groups, please go to the Administration Page and enter Device Manager. Click the Config RAID button to the left. You should see the page below. This page lists all RAID groups and their configuration. To add a RAID group, first choose its RAID level. Next, choose its RAID group members in the left sub-window –...
  • Page 63 To ungroup a RAID, click the Ungroup check-box of the RAID to be dismissed. It will prompt for confirmation. NOTE that all data in the RAID group will vanish when the RAID is ungrouped. Its RAID group members will become separate hard drives with “no init”...
  • Page 64 To recover a RAID group, please follow the steps as below: Shut down the FISC CDH, replace the failed hard drive with a new one, and then power on the FISC CDH. Go to the Administration Page and enter Device Manager.
  • Page 65 On the page, click the Recover button on the left. On the Recover page, choose a hard drive in the HD List and click the Recover button. The server will start recovering data of the RAID into the selected hard drive.
  • Page 66 Things You Should Know Only “no init” hard drives can be configured as a RAID group. “no init” means “not initialized”. If you want to group an initialized hard drive, you have to go to the HD Initialized page of the hard drive to set its function back to “no init”.
  • Page 67 There are two kinds of volumes in the FISC CDH – mirror volumes and file volumes. Each tape can store one kind of volumes, but not both.

  • Page 68: Backup Volumes

    Backup Volumes To back up data to a tape, click the Backup Volumes button on the left of the Backup page. Select a tape drive as the backup device in the Target Device list-box. Choose to back up mirror volumes or file volumes in the Source Type field.

  • Page 69: Restore Volumes

    Restore Volumes To restore the data on the tape to the FISC CDH, click the Restore Volumes button on the left of the Backup page. 8.3.1 Restore file volumes If the tape contains files volumes, the page will be like the picture below.
  • Page 70 To restore the volume to a location other than the original one, click the Alternative button. You will see a page as below. On this page, choose the volume to be restored in the Source Volume field. Choose the volume to restore to in the Target Volume field.
  • Page 71 First, choose the volumes to be restored in the left sub-window. Click the Add-> button. They will appear in the right sub- window. Next, select a hard drive the data being restored to in the Target Drive list-box. Last, click the Begin Restore button.
  • Page 72 Chapter 9 Archive The FISC CDH supports both Tape Backup and Data Archiving. It is important to understand the difference between them. A backup keeps a snapshot of the hard disk or network volume. If the working copy of an important file is lost, then in the worst case, one can go back to the backup version (usually stored in tape) and retrieve the file.

  • Page 73: Adding Archive Task

    To add an archive task, go to the Administration Page and enter Archive page. Click the Add Task button. The following page will be shown. This page contains all the parameters that need to be configured for FISC CDH to perform the archiving task in a proper way.
  • Page 74 First, select the volume need to be archived either from the Mirror Volume or the File Volume. Note that volume selected from File Volume will be initially built into a mirrored image prior to being recorded onto a CD/DVD. Self-explanatory Filter Options are available to specify what kind of data and when the data is going to be archived.

  • Page 75: Image Substitution

    Image Substitution There are three options you can choose from Image Substitution – None, Substitute only and Substitute and delete. Note that Image Substitution can only operate under two conditions: Volume Label Extension must be set to None Archive task must be set to According to schedule Assuming the source file volume name is ABC and three consecutive archive has been done.

  • Page 76: Example Of Using Data Archiving

    However, MIS manager in ACME found that half of the data store in the FISC CDH server are mostly being read only by looking at the log provided by the combo server. Despite the fact that ACME do perform type backup for all the data store in the server, retrieve a specific historical file can be a nightmare.
  • Page 77 9.5.1 Archive data from File Volume MIS manager from ACME have come out a data archive scheme as follow: Archive all the files in the first level folder name PM in the source file volume name Doc_Center which is later than December 31 , 2001 Volume Label is old_doc...
  • Page 78 12. Configure to split the large image into 650MB in order to burn onto a CD-R. 13. When finish, click Apply.
  • Page 79 C signals. (I C is a serial signal standard.) Local User Database: user accounts kept in FISC CDH locally Mirror Device: a hard disk drive configured for storing CD/DVD images (for reading purpose or recording) Share: a representation of a CD volume or a file volume when it...

  • Page 80: Main Boardj

    Appendix B Hardware Specifications Main Board Jumpers And Connectors DIMM Flash 5530 Flash 21143 6698 J2, J5 – for engineering purposes J3 – I C connector J7,J8,J14,J15 - IDE connectors J12 - power connector J13 - TP (RJ-45) connector J17, J18 – LED connectors For the power LED of the tower case to work, the power LED cable has to be connected to Pin 1 and Pin 2 of the J17 connector.
  • Page 81 Power / Fault LED The power LED indicator (green) informs that the server power status is ON. The power LED will flash when booting up the FISC CDH. After the FISC CDH has mounted all the devices, the power LED will keep the ON status.
  • Page 82 10/100 Mbps Link Speed LED Indicates the network speed is 100Mbps (green) or 10Mbps (yellow) LAN Activity LED Indicates any network activity IDE Activity LED Indicates any IDE channel(s) activity LED Codes Status Power/Fault 10/100 Mb LAN Activity Link LED POWER ON green POWER ON SELF TEST (POST)

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