Seagate ST320005SHA10G-RK - BlackArmor NAS 420 Server User Manual page 4

4. Getting the Most from Your BlackArmor® Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Your Role as a BlackArmor Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Your BlackArmor Server's Default Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Managing BlackArmor Volumes, Shares and Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Managing BlackArmor Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Protecting Your BlackArmor Files with Network Backups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Setting up Aggregation Failover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Setting Your BlackArmor Server as a Media Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Monitoring Your BlackArmor Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Changing the BlackArmor Server's Advanced Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Maintaining Your BlackArmor Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Resetting Your BlackArmor Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
BlackArmor® NAS 440/420 User Guide (Version 3)
Understanding Volumes and Shares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Working with Volumes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Working with Shares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Setting Storage Space Limits for BlackArmor Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Setting Grace Time for Exceeded Quotas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Controlling Web File Downloads to the BlackArmor Server . . . . . . . . . 35
Working with User Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Creating and Modifying User Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Monitoring Status with the Server's LCD Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Monitoring Status with the Server's LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Using Email Alerts to Monitor Server Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Checking Disk Drive Status Using SMART . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Dynamic Domain Name System (DNS) Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
File Protocol Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Network Time Protocol (NTP) Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Power Saving Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Secure Socket Layer (SSL) Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Web Access Protocol Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Workgroup and Domain Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Basic Hardware Safety and Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Keeping the Server's Firmware Current . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
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