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Summary of Contents for RAIDAGE DAGE312UTL-NAS
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Page 1: Network Storage
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Page 2: Table Of Contents
Table of Contents Chapter 1: Top-Menu-Entry: “System” ………………………………………………………………………… 5 1.1 System → General ……………………….………………………………………………………………………… 5 1.2 System → Admin Password ………………………………………………………………………… 6 1.3 System → UPS ………………………………………………………………………………………………... 7 1.4 System → Sensor (limited models only) …………………………………………………………… 8 1.5 System → Update page ……………………………………………………………………………………. - Page 3 Chapter 5: Top-Menu-Entry: “Services” ………………………………………………………………………… 37 5.1 Service → SMB/CIFS page ……………………………………………………………………………………… 37 5.1a Advanced ………………………………………………………………………………………………… 38 5.1b Edit SMB/CIFS Access Control ………………………………………………………………………… 39 5.2 Service → NFS ………………………………………………………………………………………………… 41 5.2a Edit NFS Access Control ……………………………………………………………………………………… 41 5.3 Service → AFP/Atalk ………………………………………………………………………………………...
- Page 4 Before reading on with this NAS User’s Guide, first please familiarize yourself with the following documents for quick and proper reference: Default Admin ID: root ---case sensitive Default Password: 0000 ---4 zeros “Quick Start Guide” Instructions on how to quickly find the NAS user’s network and set a static IP for the NAS, then launch the Web Administrator GUI.
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Page 5: Chapter 1: Top-Menu-Entry: "System
Chapter 1: Top-Menu-Entry: “System” The “System” entry consists of the following sub-menu entries/pages 1.1 System General → Server Name: The name given to the NAS unit, such as “MyCompanyNAS”, etc. Server Description: Enter description to help identify usage of this unit. Example: “The NAS backup for my SQL server,”... -
Page 6: System → Admin Password
Chinese Simplified Chinese Traditional UTF-8 Admin Language: This setting determines what language is displayed on the NAS Admin GUI menu, accessed via web browser. Currently, supported Admin Languages are: English (default) Simplified_Chinese_UTF8 Traditional_Chinese_BIG5 Traditional_Chinese_UTF8 Note: the setting for “Language” and “Admin Language” are two different settings. -
Page 7: System → Ups
Confirm New Password: Re-key the new desired admin password to confirm. Apply: Click the “Apply” to save change of password. 1.3 System → This page is to enable/disable UPS (un-interrupted power supply) Service, to manage some UPS selections/settings. Service Control Enable Service: Checking this option box will enable UPS service. -
Page 8: System → Sensor (Limited Models Only)
“smart signal cable” which comes with the APC UPS by default. 1.4 System Sensor (for DAGE104UTL-NAS and DAGE312UTL-NAS models only) → This page will display readings for System, CPU, and Fan sensors: (will not display any info on DAGE208UTL-NAS model) 1.5 System... - Page 9 Restore configuration: Browse: Browse the admin’s local computer for selecting the previously saved configuration file. Restore configuration button: This button will restore the selected previous-saved NAS configuration back to the NAS. Reboot for the restored configuration to take effect. Save configuration: This button is used to export the current NAS configuration into a file and save it onto a local location on the administrator’s computer.
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Page 10: Chapter 2: Top-Menu-Entry: "Network
Chapter 2: Top-Menu-Entry: “Network” “Network” entry consists of the following sub-menu entries/pages: 2.1 Network TCP/IP → On this page, Static IPs can be set for specific NIC ports, along with some other properties. NIC Port is identified as “ethx”, such as: eth0, eth1, eth2, and etc. When clicking the “Edit”... - Page 11 Static IP: Allows the admin to enter the static IP address, Netmask, and Default Gateway for the NIC port. DHCP: When selected, the NIC port will get an IP assigned from the DHCP server in the network. The fields: IP address, Netmask, and Default Gateway will display what values were assigned from the DHCP server.
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Page 12: Network → Dns
Router. For bigger companies or corporations, normally there is at least one dedicated DNS server in place. RAIDAGE’s NAS implements a “multi DNS” support scheme. If the user has more than one DNS servers, up to 3 DNS Servers’ IPs can be listed, and if the... -
Page 13: Network → Bonding (Teaming)
NIC ports together under the same IP to increase bandwidth and/or provide path redundancy. Bond Type: The RAIDAGE’s NAS supports all 7 basic modes of bonding. However, in these days only 2 types are commonly used, ALB and 802.3ad. Bond Type ALB: Adaptive-Load-Balancing. This attempts to redistribute network traffic (outgoing and incoming) quickly based on current conditions. -
Page 14: Network → Routing
This mode requires a switch that supports IEEE 802.3ad with LACP, and the switch needs to be configured on the specific ports that the NIC ports are connected to. Setting the Bonding: Select the NIC Ports intended to be bonded together and then click the “Create”... -
Page 15: Network → Host
page, there is only one option field for “Default Gateway”. The “Routing” page is used to address this need by allowing additional Gateway IP and Destination IP to be associated with designated NIC port. 2.5 Network Host → The “Host” function allows the association of a network client’s name with its IP and store it locally within the NAS. -
Page 16: Chapter 3: Top-Menu-Entry: "Storage
Chapter 3: Top-Menu-Entry: “Storage” The “Storage” entry consists of following sub-menu entries/pages: 3.1 Storage Speedy RAID → Under the “Physical Volumes” Window: SCSI ID: Disk ID, in format of: 0:0:0:0 = Disk 1 1:0:0:0 = Disk 2 2:0:0:0 = Disk 3 3:0:0:0 = Disk 4... -
Page 17: Basic Steps To Create A Raid
Info: disk Info, such as: Brand, Model, and Firmware Size: Disk size Select/Stat: Disk-selection/disk-status. The empty box means the disk is not selected. Check-marking the box selects his disc. Next to the box is that stat of the disc. “OK” means the disk is at normal status. It could show “Failed” or “Removed”... - Page 18 Notice that the disks selected have disappeared from the “Physical Volumes” window, and have shown up in the “Software RAID Volume” Window. Now under the Software RAID Volume window, we have: Volume: SW-RAID#0, if there are more than one SW-RAID, they will be, SW- RAID#1, SW-RAID#2, so forth and so on.
- Page 19 Select/Stat: RAID volume-selection/RAID volume-status. When the selection box is empty, its means that the RAID is not selected. Status can be: Normal, Degraded, Failed, Degraded recovering %, etc. Remove button: Select by check-marking a RAID, and then if the “Remove” button is clicked, the selected RAID volume will be removed/deleted.
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Page 20: Storage → Iscsi Initiator
3.3 Storage → iSCSI Initiator RAIDAGE’s NAS has a built-in iSCSI initiator function which allows the administrator to pull in a remote iSCSI Target volume as the local physical volume. Basic Steps to connect to a remote iSCSI Target / LUN: Step 1: Check-marking “Enable Service”... -
Page 21: Storage → Usb/1394 Page
3.4 Storage USB/1394 → When an USB or 1394 disk is plugged into the system, a device and corresponding capacity will be displayed in the “Raw USB/1394 Volume Pool” window. Give it a name in the “Name” field and click “Import” and the format screen will appear. -
Page 22: Storage → Logical Volume Page
Check-mark to select the Physical Volume (aka PV), and click the “Create VG” button. Now, the selected PV will turn into VG and display under the “Volume Group” window. With multiple PVs, multiple VGs can be created. To increase the size of an existing VG, just simply add a new PV to the existing VG by check-marking both the PV and VG, and then clicking “Add PV to VG”. - Page 23 Volume Types: XFS/EXT4 – a XFS/EXT4 volume is to be created for network share(s). “Assign Home Directory” is an option used to create a “home” folder for each user on that network share. Regardless of how many XFS/EXT4 shares you may have, only one XFS/EXT4 share can be used to create “home”...
- Page 24 When clicking on an existing LV name, the “Modify Logical Volume” window will display the corresponding LV info. In the “Modify Logical Volume” window, you can do: Change the volume name: Enter the new volume name replacing the old volume name.
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Page 25: Chapter 4: Top-Menu-Entry: "Account
Chapter 4: Top-Menu-Entry: “Account” “Account” entry consists of following sub-menu entries/pages: Account entry is used to allow the administrator to do following functions: Create local users and local groups Join Windows Active Directory Service Server or PDC Join NIS server for Unix/Linux NFS clients ... -
Page 26: What Is 'Home' (Home Directory / Home Folder)
For Mac clients, they are considered local users, user accounts need to be created for them on this page. For Windows clients on a Workgroup network, they are considered as local users, and need user accounts to be created for them on this page. In other words, for Windows clients and Mac clients, if they are not syncing their user account info from ADS Server, NIS Server, or LDAP Server, then a local user account must be created on this page. -
Page 27: How To Create And Use 'Home Folder
Most of the NAS units in the data center do not use this option. But some IT staff found this “Home” option to be handy and are very used to it. 4.3 How to create and use ‘Home Folder’? There are two steps to creating the ‘Home Folder’, and one step to assigning access permissions. -
Page 28: Account → Local Group
With the given example here: share0, user1, user2, and user3; it works like below. Inside the share folder ‘share0’, there are the sub-folders: ‘user1’, ‘user2’, and ‘user3’; the directory looks like this: \\share0 \\share0\user1 \\share0\user2 \\share0\user3 When user1 logins to the share, user1 will see it like this: \\home \\share0 \\user1... - Page 29 users who share the same permissions instead of individually assigning rights to each user one by one. Creating Local Group: Key the group name in the Local group name field, up to 31 characters long, without any spaces in between, and then click the “Create” button.
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Page 30: Account → Ads
4.5 Account → This section defines if the NAS will be in a stand-alone network (Workgroup), or if it will join the Microsoft PDC server, or if it will join the Microsoft Active Directory Service server. 4.5a Workgroup If PDC or AD Servers are absent in your network or if you have PDC/AD Server in your network but you don’t plan to join the NAS to the domain for domain users, and then just select the “Workgroup”... -
Page 31: Domain
4.5b Domain Domain is referring to the PDC created on a Windows NT or Windows 2000 Server. If using a Windows Active Directory Service server, do not use the “Domain” option, instead use the “ADS” option instead. To join a PDC: ... -
Page 32: Joining Ads Server
AD here is referring to the Microsoft Active Directory Service server. If using a PDC based on Windows NT, then please do not use the “ADS” option, use the “Domain” option instead. Prerequisites for Joining AD Server: • Time Syncing The time on the NAS should be in-sync with the ADS server, meaning that the time on the NAS should be set to the same time zone as the ADS server, and the time difference should be less than 2 minutes apart. -
Page 33: Account → Nis
even without importing the users and groups to the NAS, the administrator can manually type in the group names and assign access rights to them, plus a few exceptions on users. This step is done in the Top-Menu-Entry: Service → SMP/CIFS sub-menu. -
Page 34: Account → Ldap Page
Click “Apply” button 4.7 Account → LDAP page LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) is a protocol used to access network directory for user/client authentication. Note: the LDAP service supported by our NAS system is for NFS clients only. LDAP service for SMB/CIFS clients are not supported yet. (NFS client = Unix / Linux clients;... -
Page 35: Account → Quota
4.8 Account Quota → Quota means to assign storage limits to users or group of users. Quota can be either by size (MB – number of Megabytes) or by number of files. Logical Volumes: Pick the Logical Volume which you will assign quota for. Enable Quota: Check-mark the option box to enable the Quota service. - Page 36 that the administrator does not need to assign quota user by user or group by group. Enter the number of Megabytes in the field: Quota ______ MB or enter the Number of files for each user/group, in the field: Number of files _______ EA Click on ‘User’...
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Page 37: Chapter 5: Top-Menu-Entry: "Services
Chapter 5: Top-Menu-Entry: “Services” 5.1 Service SMB/CIFS page → Windows Screen Sharing Service Management: The SMB/CIFS Submenu allows access to settings in order to manage sharing on Windows-based systems. All Logical Volumes created on the NAS are automatically enabled for SMB/CIFS Service. -
Page 38: Advanced
5.1a Advanced The “Advanced” button brings up additional options Advanced Options: Recycle Bin: By checking this option box, the Recycle Bin function for SMB/CIFS client is enabled. Keep Tree: This option specifies if a directory structure should be kept, or if deleted files should be categorized separately in the recycle bin. -
Page 39: Edit Smb/Cifs Access Control
Audit: In the case of an audit log being greater than 10MB in size, it will be renamed “audit.log.1.” and begin looping to “audit.log.” Rotations: The number entered into this text box dictates on how many rotations will be saved. For example, entering 4 into the box will result in log files being generated up to “audit.log.4.”... - Page 40 Permission: Use this option to assign share access rights to selected users. Use the “Add” Button to apply permission to a group/user. Inheritance: Use this setting to apply ACL’s, permissions, owner and group properties to sub-folders and files created using the Inheritance option. DFS Root: This option generates links on the Access Control Page for DFS Targets.
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Page 41: Service → Nfs
Allow: This option allows you to list all users who are allowed to access a share. All others will be denied access. Deny: This option allows you to list all users who are not allowed access to the share. Those who are not listed will be granted access. 5.2 Service →... - Page 42 Read Only- Limits users from writing new data or changing existing data Secure- Requires requests to be made on internet ports less than IPPORT_RESERVED (1024). To turn off this feature, check “Insecure Locks.” This must be disabled for access on Macintosh. Async- This option allows NFS server to violate NFS protocol and reply to requests before the disk commits said request.
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Page 43: Service → Afp/Atalk
5.3 Service AFP/Atalk → The Apple Filing Protocol (AFP) Access Control Path: Use this function to set the location of the share Name: Use this function to name the share. The adjacent option box enables or disables the share. Assigned Users: This window displays users who have been granted access to the share. - Page 44 Mswindows- checking this option box improves performance for Windows NT, 2000 and 2003 systems. Prodos- This function improves communication with Legacy Apple II OS. CRLF Conversion- This feature converts line feeds and carriage returns from UNIX to Windows and AFP compatible formats. Read Only- This option forces read only communication Nohex-This option disables hex translations for all files but DOT files Usedots- This option shows file names with configurations that begin with “.”...
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Page 45: Service → Iscsi Target Page: Iscsi Target Service Management
5.4 Service iSCSI Target page → iSCSI Target Service Management This sub menu displays the settings to enable/disable access via iSCSI. Enable Service: This option box enables iSCSI service when checked. Target IQN: Shows the IQN of iSCSI target. Node ID: Up to 8 digits, used to avoid having the same ID generated by VMWare ESX hosts when multiple NAS systems are used on the same network. -
Page 46: Service → Replication Page
Enable/Disable- used to grant/prevent access to iSCSI Target Edit- Use this function to edit iSCSI target functions:. IQN Name, IQN Description, CHAP controls, Host IP Block, and Logical Volumes Assignments. Edit LUNS- Used to manage block-type logical volume access via iSCSI Target. Edit LUNS 1. -
Page 47: Adding A New Replication Schedule
5.5a Adding a new Replication Schedule 1. Click “add” button to access the Replication Schedule editor screen 2. Name- Set name for replication job 3. Source- click “browse” to find source volume 4. Target- click “browse” to find target volume 5. -
Page 48: Adding New Snapshot Schedule
5.6a Adding new Snapshot Schedule 1. Snapshot Name- Enter desired name of snapshot schedule 2. Volume List- Select the desired volume from the drop down menu 3. Description- Enter a description for the snapshot schedule to aid in identification 4. Size- Enter the desired snapshot size 5. -
Page 49: Edit
5.7a Edit Use this button to open menu to configure user access controls. Name: Displays the user that is being edited Owner: Drop down menu that sets the owner of the share Group: Drop down menu that sets a group to assign user to Search User/Group: Feature used to search for a specific user or group Permissions: Used to set certain permissions granted to owner, group, others, or sticky... -
Page 50: Tape Backup
5.8 Tape Backup This page displays the settings to manage tape backups. Name: Enter desired name of backup policy Source: Select the source directory Target: Select device where backup will be written Software Compression: Enable this option to turn on software compression Hardware Compression: Enable this option to turn on hardware compression Schedule: Set the desired schedule of backup frequency... - Page 51 Source Directory: Choose a source directory from the browse list Target Directory: Choose a target directory from the browse list Delete deleted files: Checking this option box deletes files that have been deleted Checkers: Enter number of checkers to run in parallel Transfers: Enter number of file transfers to run in parallel Schedule: Check this option box to enable cloud backup scheduling.
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Page 52: Chapter 6: Top-Menu-Entry: "Features
Chapter 6: Top-Menu-Entry: “Features” “Features” entry consists of the following sub-menu entries/pages 6.1 Features FTP Service Management → Enable Service: This check option box enables FTP Service Create Home on User Login: Enabling this feature automatically creates a “home” folder for the user Allow Anonymous Access: Enabling this feature grants anonymous users access to the FTP folder Allow Upload: Enabling this feature allows users to upload files to the FTP folder... -
Page 53: Features → Dhcp Management
Anonymous Root: Use the browse button to select a location for the Anonymous Root folder Enable SSL: Enables SSL encrypted communication between User and FTP Service Generate PEM-Generates certificate for SSL service Force Anonymous Logins to use SSL- Forces Anonymous Users to only access via Force Anonymous Data to use SSL-Forces data transmissions to be logged as “Anonymous User“... -
Page 54: Features → Network Time Service Management
6.3 Features Network Time Service Management → To enable NTP Service: 1. Check the “Enable Service” option box 2. Select a pre-existing NTP Server or add a new NTP server by entering its IP address and subnet fields and clicking “add” 3. -
Page 55: Features → Ddns Management
6.5 Features DDNS Management → This page displays the menu for configuring the DDNS Service. To enable DDNS Service: 1. Check the “Enable Service” option box 2. Select a service via the drop down menu 3. Enter a desired username for the DDNS Service Account 4. -
Page 56: Chapter 7: Top-Menu-Entry: Status
SFTP Access: Enable this option for Secure File Transfer Protocol access Chapter 7: Top-Menu-Entry: “Status” “Status” entry consists of the following sub-menu entries/pages: The Status menu shows an array of information to help ensure that your NAS system is running at an optimal level. -
Page 57: Status → Log
7.2 Status → The log page displays a list of events: shutdowns, reboots, critical software errors, and etc. Refresh: Updates log to show most recent activity Download: Saves the entire log as a .txt file. (Useful if contacting technical support) Clear Warning: Removes all outstanding warnings Remove: Clears entire NAS log 7.3 Status... -
Page 58: Status → Notification Page
7.4 Status Notification page → This menu displays the settings for configuring communication with internal and external SMTP servers to provide information to IT staff. SMTP Server: Simple Mail Transport Protocol used to send email notifications User Name: Usually is the email address of the person receiving notifications Password: Password of User’s Mail Account From: Used to identify device generating notifications (optional) Email Addresses: Enter email addresses of all persons monitoring and... -
Page 59: Smart (Disk & Raid)
SNMP, short for Simple Network Management Protocol is used to manage networks. SNMP can be used to configure network devices such as printers, hubs, switches, and servers. Enable SNMP 1. Check “Enable Service” option box 2. Click “Apply” to save changes 7.6 SMART (Disk &... - Page 60 To silence the alert, select “SMART (Disk & RAID)” under “Status” tab. Click “Clear Warning” – will stop beeping for 5 minutes and will start beeping again if hard drive SMART Error issues remain.