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  • Page 1 4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410...
  • Page 2 NAS-7410 Copyright Copyright © 2013 by PLANET Technology Corp. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language or computer language, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, magnetic, optical, chemical, manual or otherwise, without the prior written permission of PLANET.
  • Page 3 Do not dispose of WEEE as unsorted municipal waste; they should be collected separately. Revision User’s Manual for PLANET 4-Bay SATA NAS RAID SERVER with iSCSI Model: NAS-7410 Rev: 1.00 (June.2013) Part No. EM-NAS-7410...

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 Table of Contents Chapter 1. Product Introduction ..................6 1.1. Package Contents .................... 6 1.2. Overview ......................6 1.3. Features ......................10 1.4. Product Specifications ................... 10 Chapter 2. Hardware Interface ..................13 2.1 Physical Descriptions..................
  • Page 5 4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 6.5 Caching windows domain user accounts............. 62 6.6 Creating UNIX/Linux host................63 6.7 Managing quotas ..................... 64 Chapter 7. Disc Sharing and Data Archiving ............. 66 7.1 Starting to use the disc server function ............66 7.2 Sharing discs....................

  • Page 6: Chapter 1. Product Introduction

    1.2. Overview High Performance Shared Storage Server PLANET NAS-7410, a reliable and high-performance business-class network storage is a 4-bay RAID network storage system for those seeking reliable and affordable server virtualization and file storage. The network storage unified architecture supports both NAS and IP-SAN applications and solves numerous data management problems with a single system.
  • Page 7 NAS-7410 Space Saving & Tray-less Design The NAS-7410 is designed to allow the installation of up to four 2.5”/3.5” SATA hard drives. Each hard drive door has a multi-locking latch mechanism in order to prevent a door from being opened easily.
  • Page 8 The Extension of Network Communication by WebDAV The NAS-7410 supports WebDAV, which is an extension of the HTTP protocol for users to edit and manage documents and files that are stored on servers over the Internet. It also allows iOS and Android WebDAV clients to access files from NAS server.
  • Page 9 Scheduled power on/off feature provides flexibility to only allow the NAS-7410 to operate in designated time and therefore minimize power usage. The NAS-7410 can be powered on remotely and reduce the power consumption by Wake on LAN.

  • Page 10: Features

    4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 1.3. Features Hardware High performance Intel Dual Core 1.8GHz processor Provides scalability up to 16TB (with 4TB per hard drive) Tray-less design for genuine plug & play and hot swap use Integrated dual Gigabit LAN with Fault Tolerance and Link Aggregation...
  • Page 11 4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 File system: FAT16/32, NTFS COM Interface 1 x COM port for UPS 1 x quiet cooling fan (12 cm, 12V DC, Max. 15400rpm) Alarm Buzzer System warning Secure Design Lock security slot for Hard drive prevention Network and Configuration IEEE 802.3 10Base-T...
  • Page 12 4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 Data Backup to Multiple External Storage Devices Network Access：SSH, HTTPS, FTP, CIFS/SMB, AFP Encrypted Access: HTTPS, FTP with SSL/TLS, SSH/SFTP, Encrypted Remote Replication between NAS Servers Security Built-in Trend Micro antivirus software...

  • Page 13: Chapter 2. Hardware Interface

    4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 Chapter 2. Hardware Interface 2.1 Physical Descriptions 2.1.1 Front Panel Interface Description Power Button Press the button to start the NAS Reset Button This button is used to restore all the factory default settings...

  • Page 14: Real Panel

    4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 2.1.2 Real Panel Interface Description Power Jack Connect the two power supply cords shipped with the system E-SATA Connect to external hard drive case Connect to UPS These RJ-45 ports support auto negotiating Gigabit Ethernet LAN Jack (LAN1) interface.

  • Page 15: Hardware Installation

    4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 2.2 Hardware Installation 2.2.1 Installing the Hard Disk Drive 1. Release the HDD tray by pulling the lock to the right. 2. Pull the HDD tray out of the case. 3. Place the HDD in the tray by unscrewing and screwing it.

  • Page 16: Network Installation

    5. Push the tray door back to the case to secure it. 2.2.2. Network Installation The NAS-7410 provides GUI (Web based, Graphical User Interface) for management and administration. The default IP address of NAS server is 192.168.0.100. You may now open your web browser, and insert http://192.168.0.100 in the address bar of your web browser to login web...
  • Page 17 4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 Default DHCP Client Default IP Address 192.168.0.100 Default Login User Name admin Default Login Password admin Search Tools NAS Finder If the networked device’s default IP Address (192.168.0.100) is already used by another device, the other device must be turned off until the device is...

  • Page 18: Initial Utility Installation

    The utility is designed to perform a quick setup and put your NAS server online in just a few minutes. During startup, NAS Finder begins to discover the entire NAS server on the network. The default server name would be NAS-7410. 1. Highlight the server you want to configure from the left hand pane.
  • Page 19 4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 3. The default is Assign an IP address manually. If you want IP settings to be assigned automatically, click Obtain IP settings automatically.
  • Page 20 4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 4. Enter the Server Name, Server Comment, and Workgroup/Domain Name and select either the Workgroup mode or Domain mode. 6. Change the admin password if necessary. 7. Click the OK button to save the settings.

  • Page 21: Chapter 3. Server Configuration

    4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 Chapter 3. Server Configuration This chapter describes how to name the server, specify the server date and time, upgrade the OS firmware, shut down the system and use UPS with the NAS server.

  • Page 22: General

    Address their types. Display the type of the add-on adaptor installed in the system. PCI-E Slot The NAS-7410 cannot support this function. 3.2 General The General Settings section shows the parameters which can be modified on the Server→General page. 3.3 Modifying the administrator’s password Admin is a built-in user account for the administrator.

  • Page 23: Enabling Ups Support

    4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 The administrator can delegate the administrator’s privilege to other users by including them into the Admins built-in group. Please select the Security→Account menu. Select Admins* in the Local User/Group window and click Property. Specify the users to have the privilege and click Apply.

  • Page 24: Shutting Down The Server

    4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 Item Description Specify whether to shut down the server when UPS battery is low. Shut down immediately when battery is low When utility power fails, the NAS server will always shut down.
  • Page 25 4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 Item Description Recalculate the storage consumption per user during the next Recalculate user startup. It may take much time if there are a huge amount of files quota information in disk. Reset configuration Reset all configurations to default.

  • Page 26: Upgrading The Firmware

    4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 3.6 Upgrading the firmware Updating OS firmware will accommodate new functions or bug-fixes. Once you get new releases of an OS firmware image, you can upgrade the OS firmware by using the web browser. The process is simple and fast.

  • Page 27: Chapter 4. Network Configuration

    4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 Chapter 4. Network Configuration This chapter details concepts and procedures for configuring the NAS server and establishing the system that can communicate among various OS platforms. Management protocol and email notification setting are also covered in this chapter.

  • Page 28: Tcp/Ip Settings

    4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 The “TCP/IP Suite Settings” section shows the various TCP/IP settings of the server. Item Description Display Ethernet port #. Port IP Address An identifier for a network resource on a TCP/IP network.
  • Page 29 4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 Item Description The NAS server provides two on-board 10/100/1000 or Gigabit Ethernet ports (LAN1 & LAN2). You can configure the Ethernet ports using the following operating modes: Stand Alone: Each LAN1 & LAN2 is configured with a unique IP address, which is independent to each other.

  • Page 30: Windows Settings

    4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 Configuring TCP/IPv4 settings 1. Select a Network Teaming Mode from the pull-down menu that suits your needs. 2. Enable or Disable Wake on LAN (Available for LAN1 or LAN2). 3. Click the Obtain IP settings automatically radio button to obtain IP addresses of your NAS server from DHCP, BOOP or RARP server on the network.

  • Page 31: Unix/Linux Settings

    4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 NAS server becomes a member of a workgroup and communicates with the clients using its internal user database for Workgroup Mode authentication and does not require other authentication servers to be present in the network.
  • Page 32 4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 Item Description User ID. The numeral is assigned to a user with Unix/Linux permissions. NFS uses UID to determine permissions on files and directories. Group ID. A part of POSIX permissions that determine groups of users.

  • Page 33: Macintosh Settings

    4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 3. Click Apply to save the settings. 4. Click the Modify icon and enter the default UID and GID. (Default setting = 0) 5. Choose to map all users to the default UID/GID or assign UID/GID for each user manually.

  • Page 34: Web Data Access Settings

    4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 Item Description Local Account Authenticate user using NAS server’s internal user database. Authentication Local and Domain If Windows Network is enabled, you can enable both local and Authentication domain authentication for AFP client.

  • Page 35: Ftp Data Access Settings

    4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 Configuring web data access 1. Click the Enable Web Data Access (HTTP Protocol) checkbox to enable Web data accessing. 2. Choose Allow file download only or Allow file upload and download. 3. Click the Local account authentication radio button to authenticate user using the server’s local user database.
  • Page 36 For example, use anonymous to login FTP server c. Allow individual user login: You can allow Local accounts only for login NAS-7410 from FTP clients, or both Local accounts and Domain accounts have the access rights to the NAS-7410 via...

  • Page 37: Snmp Settings

    4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 4.8 SNMP settings Simple network management protocol (SNMP) provides the ability to monitor and gives status information of the SNMP agent to the SNMP management console. NAS server behaves as an SNMP agent that answers requests from management console and sends trap information to it.

  • Page 38: Email Settings

    4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 2. Enter a Community name. 3. Enter the IP address of the management console. 4. Select “Yes” from the pull down menu if you want the corresponding management console to receive trap message.

  • Page 39: Ssl Settings

    4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 setting. 7. Click Apply to save the setting. 4.10 SSL settings The NAS server enables secure web access by supporting SSL 3.0, both for the user homepage and the administration homepage. To use SSL 3.0, the NAS server will generate a server certificate for authentication and data encryption.
  • Page 40 4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 Configuring TCP/IPv6 settings 1. Click the IPv6 checkbox to enable IPv6 in Web→IPv6. 2. Select Obtain IPv6 address automatically or use self settings. 3. Input the LAN1 and LAN2 IPv6 address, prefix-length and gateway respectively if the self settings selected.

  • Page 41: Chapter 5. Volume Configuration

    4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 Chapter 5. Volume Configuration This chapter describes how to create a single-disk volume or a RAID volume. It also outlines the steps of deleting a volume, expanding a RAID-5 volume and assigning hot-spare disks. After a volume is created, please refer to the next chapter for more information about sharing data and assigning permissions.
  • Page 42 4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 Two or more hard disks in the volume are Faulty not functional. It is not possible to perform any data access or recover any data. Faulty (RW) Two or more volume members are defective.

  • Page 43: Creating A Volume

    4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 Item Description In Volume Shows to which volume the hard disk belongs. Indicates the SATA channel position of the hard disk and USB position. Location Model Name Shows the model or the manufacturer of the hard disk.
  • Page 44 4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 Item Description Just a Bunch Of Disks. JBOD A JBOD-type volume contains only one hard disk as its member. RAID level 0 is disk striping only, which distribute data evenly over multiple disks RAID 0 for better performance.

  • Page 45: Deleting A Volume

    4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 Assigning Hot-spare disks The hot-spare disks are global, which means they are not bound to any specific RAID volumes. Whenever a RAID volume goes degraded because of a bad hard disk, a hot-spare disk will be taken immediately to recover that RAID volume.

  • Page 46: Expanding A Raid-5 Volume

    4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 5.4 Expanding a RAID-5 volume RAID-5 volume expansion makes it possible to enlarge volume capacity without rebooting the NAS server. Volume capacity grows on the fly. Moreover, you do not have to change any share permissions, security controls and quota settings after volume expansion.

  • Page 47: Volume/Disk Scan

    4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 5.6 Volume/Disk scan Volume/Disk scan is especially useful for disk diagnostics and repairs lost or cross linked clusters in Volume/Disk. All readable data will be placed in new clusters and defective cluster will mark as bad in the file system.

  • Page 48: Iscsi (Ip San)

    4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 perform disk-scanning before taking such actions as creating a volume, expanding a volume, migrating data or assigning a hot-spare disks. If disk auto-scanning is enabled, the NAS server can scan disks automatically when you perform these actions. If the hard disks have ever been scanned in the last 30 days, the auto-scanning will be skipped so that the auto-scanning will not be activated too often.
  • Page 49 4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 The NAS supports 8 iSCSI devices at the maximum. 4. The LUNs created can be mapped to and unmapped from the iSCSI target anytime. You can deactivate or activate by clicking icon, respectively. You can delete a target by clicking icon.

  • Page 50: Recycle Bin

    4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 2. Click “Add initiator”. 3. New initiator will be displayed on the below allowed list. Remove an initiator: 1. Click the checkbox in front of the name/IP of an initiator. 2. Click “Delete initiator” to remove the initiator from allowed list.

  • Page 51: Chapter 6. Security Control

    4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 Chapter 6. Security control This chapter covers how to set up the security control of the files, folders and shares stored in NAS server. Managing Access Control List (ACL) file level security, file ownership and user quota are also covered in this chapter.

  • Page 52: Creating Share And Assigning Share Permissions

    4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 Number of Shares Total number of shares created in NAS server. Total number of ACL nodes created. ACL tells NAS server which Number of ACL Nodes access right each user has to a folder or an individual file.
  • Page 53 4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 To create a new share: 1. Go to Security→File/Folder menu. 2. Locate the volume you want to share on the volume lists. 3. Click the Create hyperlink to share the corresponding volume. Then go to Step 9.
  • Page 54 4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 To assign share permission of a share for local account and domain account: 1. Go to Security→Share menu. 2. Locate the share and click permission icon to assign or modify share permission to this share.
  • Page 55 4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 To assign share permission of a share for UNIX/Linux host: 1. Go to Security→Share menu. 2. Locate the share and click to assign share permission to this share. 3. Click the UNIX/Linux Setting tab.

  • Page 56: Configuring File And Folder Security And Acl

    4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 Read Only (RO) –The host is allowed to read the share. Read Write (RW) –The host is allowed to read and write to the share. 6.3 Configuring file and folder security and ACL Access Control Lists (ACL) are associated with each file and folder, as well as the list of users and groups permitted to use that file or folder.
  • Page 57 4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 There are two built-in user accounts: Admin and Guest. And two built-in group accounts: Admins and Everyone. Every user of NAS server including local and Domain user is the member of the Everyone group.
  • Page 58 4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 Write Only (WO) – Account is allowed to write to the file or folder. Read Write (RW) – Account is allowed to read and write to the file or folder, but not to delete it.

  • Page 59: Creating The Local User And Local Group Accounts

    4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 ownership to all sub folders and files. 4. Click Apply to save the setting. 6.4 Creating the local user and local group accounts A local user or group is an account that can be granted permissions and rights from your NAS server.
  • Page 60 4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 To create a local group: 1. Go to Security→Account→Local Account menu. 2. Click the Add Group button. 3. Type in the group name. 4. If you want to grant the administrator privilege to this group, click the Grand administrator privilege check box.
  • Page 61 4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 The NAS server provides a mechanism for administrators to create multiple accounts at one time. It imports accounts from a text file and create local accounts accordingly. The text file defines some parameters related to the accounts, like passwords, user quotas, groups, etc. Also it can be used to create user folders in a batch.

  • Page 62: Caching Windows Domain User Accounts

    4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 6.5 Caching windows domain user accounts Domain users and groups are managed by your network administrator. Windows network uses a domain controller to store the information of all the domain users and groups. When the Windows Network is set to use Domain Mode in your NAS server, you need to cache domain account in the NAS server’s local user database.

  • Page 63: Creating Unix/Linux Host

    4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 Filter Rules: Item Description You can filter windows domain pool that displays domain users or User/Group domain groups or all. Domain You can filter which one domain displays pool or all. Authorized / You can filter authorized or unauthorized domain accounts or all.

  • Page 64: Managing Quotas

    4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 To create a list of the UNIX/Linux host: 1. Go to Security→Account menu. 2. Click the UNIX/Linux Host tab. 3. Enters a single host IP address in the first text box. 4. Or, enter the start IP address in the first text box and the last 3 digits of the end IP address in the second text box to input a range of the host IP addresses of the Host IP field.
  • Page 65 4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 3. You can click the Recalculate icon to obtain the most updated information of the total amount of disk space used by each user. 4. Click Apply to save the setting. To set all quotas to the same value, please specify the quota value in the Set all quotas to xx MB input field.

  • Page 66: Chapter 7. Disc Sharing And Data Archiving

    4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 Chapter 7. Disc Sharing and Data Archiving Disc Server creates and manages CD and DVD disc images for easy and fast disc sharing. It relieves the efforts of handling huge amount of discs. Thousands of discs can be kept online for user access.

  • Page 67: Sharing Discs

    4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 server. 7.2 Sharing discs Administrators can choose to share a single disc, multiple discs or a disc image folder. If a single disc is shared, its content will be shown when users open the network share. If multiple discs are shared, the discs will appear as individual folders under the network share.
  • Page 68 4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 To share multiple discs: To share multiple discs, go to the Disc Server→Disc Shares page. Click the Create Group Share button. Specify the share name and click Apply to save settings. Select the discs to share in the Share Target tab and click Apply.

  • Page 69: Creating Disc Images

    4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 To share a disc image folder: To share a disc image folder, go to the Disc Server→Disc Images→Disc Image Folder menu of the administration page. Click the Create hyperlink in the Share column. Specify the share name and click Apply.
  • Page 70 4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 The disc image’s name can be either inherited from the CD label or user-defined. A user-defined name will only apply once to the next duplicated disc image. If you set the CD function to 'Direct Access', it will mount any disc inserted in the CD/DVD device.

  • Page 71: Managing Discs

    4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 To discover disc images manually, please open the Disc Server→Disc Images administration page and click the Rescan images hyperlink to the right of the page. To set up the NAS server to discover disc images regularly, please open the Disc Server→Information page.

  • Page 72: Burning Disc Images

    4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 Once the disc image is created in the NAS server, it can be seen on the Disc Server→All Disc Images menu of the administration page. If the disc images are not created or duplicated by the NAS server or by the remote mirroring software, administrators will have to re-scan the disc image folders for disc images manually.

  • Page 73: Archiving Data To Cd/Dvd Discs

    4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 To change the CD function, please click the hyperlink in the Function column of the Device List table. Next, select a disc image by clicking the Select a Disc hyperlink. After the selection is made, the disc image information will be shown underneath, including image size, disc format and disc volume label.
  • Page 74 4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 Disc Label Specifies the labels of the CD/DVD discs. If the date extension is enabled, it will append the date of archiving to the disc labels. For example, PLANET20041010_01 is the first disc created Date Extension by the data archiving task on October 25, 2004 with the date extension.

  • Page 75: Chapter 8. User Access

    4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 Chapter 8. User access The NAS server fits into the network environment as soon as it is properly configured. This chapter describes how to get the NAS server ready for user access from various network operating systems.

  • Page 76: Accessing From Windows

    4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 8.2 Accessing from windows There are some configuration jobs to do before Windows users can access the NAS server. Please enter the administration homepage first. 1. Go to Server → Maintenance page select a volume as system folder then click Apply button 2.
  • Page 77 4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 In addition to the administration homepage, the NAS server provides the user homepage for normal users to access data in the server. With a web browser, users can download files, create folders, upload files and modify ACL. To enable user access from web, please follow the steps.

  • Page 78: Accessing From Macos

    4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 Upload File: uploads files to the current path if the login user has the access right. Help: opens a new browser window with help information File browsing When the user page is opened, the file-browsing window shows all the shares in the server. All the folders and files are presented as hyperlinks.
  • Page 79 4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 on whether the NAS server is in the workgroup mode or the domain mode. 3. Share the volume to network users. Go to the Security→File/Folder menu. Find the volume01 entry and click Create in the Sharing column (or click Modify if the volume has been shared).

  • Page 80: Accessing From Ftp Clients

    Unlimited: Don’t limit how many FTP clients can login to NAS-7410 at the same time. b. Allowed number of Users: Select this option and you can set a number to limit the total number of FTP clients to login to NAS-7410 at the same time for saving some network bandwidth or system resource.

  • Page 81: Accessing From Nfs Clients

    3. Select a folder as the Home Directory of FTP clients and Set ACL for file base security management. a. Home Directory: Select a folder under NAS-7410; it will be easier for you to manage all of FTP clients and to know how many data under the folder.
  • Page 82 4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 permission as you specify in the configuration steps. The users on the NFS client with proper access rights will be able to access the /mnt directory and hence the NAS server.

  • Page 83: Chapter 9. Backup And Recovery

    4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 Chapter 9. Backup and Recovery 9.1 Snapshot – Fast Point-In-Time copies Snapshots are read-only copies of file-systems at a specific point in time. Snapshot distinguishes itself in its speed. Creating a snapshot is not involved with copying user data, thus usually taking less than a second.

  • Page 84: Smartsync - Nas-To-Nas Data Replication

    4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 created snapshots, instead of the current active file-system, to prevent the open-file issue. Deleting snapshots To delete snapshots, check the check-boxes in the List of Snapshots table and click the Delete icon to delete the selected snapshots. You can make multiple selections to delete several snapshots at a time.
  • Page 85 4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 SmartSync server is like an ftp server. The SmartSync clients can either replicate their data to the SmartSync server, or copying data from the SmartSync server, depending on the task settings. There are three operating modes of SmartSync - "mirror" for one-to-one data replication, "backup"...
  • Page 86 4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 To create a sync point, please go to the Backup→SmartSync →Server menu on the Administration Page. Click the Add button to open the page below. On the page you should provide the sync point name and specify which group is allowed to replicate data to this sync point.
  • Page 87 4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 Administration Page. Click the Add button to open the page below. On the page you should provide the sync point name and specify which group is allowed to request data from this sync point.
  • Page 88 4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 9.3 Loading and writing CD/DVD discs Connecting a CD or DVD writer to the NAS server, you will be able to load data from CD/DVD discs or burn files on writeable CD/DVD discs. The CD and DVD burning feature turns the NAS server into a device that publishes data, beyond the powerful data storage function.
  • Page 89 4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 The NAS server supports CD or DVD burning. It can use ISO-9660 CD format to write data to CD or DVD discs. Supported devices are CD-RW, DVD-RW and DVD+RW writers and Blu-ray Disc.

  • Page 90: Backup And Restore System Profiles

    4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 9.4 Backup and restore system profiles To recover from system failures, it requires restoring data and system configurations. Backup and SmartSync are for restoring data, while system profiles are used for recovering system configurations.
  • Page 91 4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 If there is any system failure which causes corrupt system configurations, the first step is to reset the system configurations to factory default. Go to the Server→Shutdown page. Check the Reset configuration to factory default option and click the Reboot button. The second step is to restore system configurations using one of the system profiles.

  • Page 92: Backup Usb Device

    4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 9.5 Backup USB device NAS server supports the USB flash drive and external hard disk (support FAT/FAT32/NTFS) backup in optional models with USB ports. Press the button on the LCD front panel to activate the USB backup when plugging in a USB flash drive or hard drive.

  • Page 93: Chapter 10. Virus Protection

    4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 Chapter 10. Virus Protection Most storage systems are vulnerable to virus attacks. An infected file in you NAS server can be exchanged among the client systems in the network, resulting in corrupted data or causing productivity loss.

  • Page 94: Real-Time, Manual And Schedule Scanning

    4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 Display the folder name and path where virus infected files are located Quarantine Folder and quarantine. The real-time scan history displays the date and time where the virus is found. Action is then taken as to virus name and the full path name of the infected file.

  • Page 95: Configuring Scan Settings

    4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 Configuring schedule scanning 1. Click the Enable Scheduled Scan for Infected Files checkbox to enable scheduled scanning. 2. Click the Select Folders hyperlink to specify the folders you want to perform the scheduled scan.

  • Page 96: Updating Virus Pattern File

    4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 2. Click Apply to save the settings. 10.4 Updating virus pattern file Virus pattern update can be performed either manually or according to the schedule. It is required to perform a manual update immediately when the antivirus function is activated for the first time.

  • Page 97: Chapter 11. Event Logs

    4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 Chapter 11. Event Logs This chapter covers the Event Notification. You can collect information about the system, hardware and security event of you NAS server. 11.1 Event and Thermal settings NAS server records three kinds of logs: All the events are categorized into three levels: Info, Warning and Error.

  • Page 98: Checking The Event Logs

    4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 Thermal settings User can also define the thermal scheme of the NAS server so that NAS server can give off warning message or shutting down when the system or CPU temperature is over a predefined threshold temperature.
  • Page 99 4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 Web Reminder is the warning message that appear at the first screen of the administrator home page to alert administrator that one or multiple critical events of your NAS server has been found.
  • Page 100 4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 In the Event→Device Log menu, you can: 1. Select the number of most recent events show on a screen. 2. Select the severity level for the events you want to see. 3. Click Refresh button to refresh the screen.

  • Page 101: Chapter 12. System Status

    4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 Chapter 12. System Status This chapter covers the System Status pages. You can collect information about the system, hardware and security event of your NAS server. 12.1 Viewing system status System Status displays a comprehensive view of the system fan status, thermal status and system voltage.
  • Page 102 4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 File Name Lists the name and path of the opened file. Viewing the active connections In the Status→Connections: Item Description Configure and show the protocol used by the client that is currently...

  • Page 103: Saving System Settings And Status As Html Files

    4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 In the Status→Load: Item Description You can see the CPU usage and memory usage here. Total memory CPU & Memory and the current free memory are also shown here. Network The network throughput in percentage is showed on here.

  • Page 104: Share Access Counts

    4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 To email the saved files, choose the files to save and check the Send the saved files by email check-box. Enter the email address to send to. And click Apply to send them out by email, while saving copies in the system folder.

  • Page 105: Appendix A Hot-Swapping

    4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 Appendix A Hot-swapping You may have to change hard disks in some situations, such as hard disk failure, degraded RAID, Critical RAID or general maintenance. The NAS server supports HDD hot-swapping. Below are the instructions of replacing hard disks when using the HDD module.
  • Page 106 4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 Appendix B Utility for NAS system NAS Finder is powerful software that discovers and administers NAS Servers on the network, and remotely loads disc images into the NAS Server. You can either duplicate a whole CD or build an image from a group of files.
  • Page 107 4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 Follow the instructions in the setup wizard to install NAS Finder. It will create shortcuts on Desktop and in the Programs folder of the Start me. Discovering NAS system When started, NAS Finder automatically discovers all the NAS systems on the network and displays a list of servers under the node Local Server.
  • Page 108 4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 Importing and Exporting System Settings This section describes how to export the system settings of a NAS Server into a file. This file can be read into another NAS Server on the network by using the import feature. “Import System Settings”...
  • Page 109 4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 The main window consists of a file menu, a tool bar, a tree view pane on the left, a list view pane on the right and a status bar on the bottom.
  • Page 110 4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 NAS Server: represents a NAS Server Disc Image Folder: contains disc images of the NAS Server. You can double click to view its content. Disc Image: represents a mirrored CD/DVD image. The following are some examples of browsing the servers.
  • Page 111 4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 Tree View Mode: expands or shrinks the directory tree in the tree view pane (to the left). List View Mode: changes the view mode of items in the list view pane (to the right).
  • Page 112 4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 2. Choose one or more servers as the destination. Select a server in the “Target & File Path” list-box, select “Smart” mode for redundancy check of the CD image or select “Force” mode to allow a second copy of the same CD image.
  • Page 113 4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 3. Change the volume label of the CD/DVD image if necessary. If you want to change the volume label, click “2” -- User Define -- and enter the volume label in the input-box. Then click the “Update”...
  • Page 114 4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 5. Set the Mirror CD options if necessary. 6. Click “OK” to start the task. The Task Manager will show the progress. Archiving Files as a CD/DVD Image This chapter describes how to build CD image from “My Container” into a NAS Server. Please follow the steps below.
  • Page 115 4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 2. Click the “Build Image” icon on the tool-bar to bring up the “Build Image” wizard. You can click the “Validate” button to check if the file/folder information in My Container is correct.
  • Page 116 4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 being added to the right-hand pane. Click the “Next” button to go to next page. 4. Name the CD/DVD image to be created. Enter the name in the “Volume label” input-box and...
  • Page 117 4-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server with iSCSI NAS-7410 5. Specify the date/time to run the task. Then press “OK”. 6. The Task Manager will show the progress. Burning Disc Images If the NAS server is equipped with CD or DVD writer, it can burn any existing disc image in it.

  • Page 118: Appendix C Troubleshooting & Frequently Asked Questions

    NAS-7410? Hardware Installation No, OS of NAS-7410 is not stored in hard disk drive. Instead, OS and Is the OS of NAS-7410 system configuration information of NAS-7410 are stored in the CF stored in the hard disk drive? Card.
  • Page 119 SATA channels. For example, you have SATA channel while creating 6 hard disk drives connected to the NAS-7410 and you want to create a RAID device? two RAID level 5 devices. RAID group A should consist of HD1, HD3, HD5 (all drives connected as "master"...
  • Page 120 CPU power for calculation. Can I adjust the "strip size" No, the RAID feature of the NAS-7410 does not provide a parameter in the RAID 0 or 5 groups of to adjust the strip size.
  • Page 121 240GB more. At this time, you just plug in two 120GB HDDs to NAS-7410 and join them into that RAID-5 group. You will get a RAID group with the capacity of (480GB + 240GB) = 720GB. All these are done while the system is still on-line.
  • Page 122 Thus it reduces the loading on the network bandwidth and the processing time. NAS-7410's solution for remote backup is SmartSync. Just like the What solutions for remote other NAS storage systems on the market, current synchronization backup does NAS-7410 mode is remote mirroring.
  • Page 123 NAS-7410 appear in "Network Neighborhood". You can find four kinds of solution for your reference below: 1 Set up all of client PCs and NAS-7410 register to WINS server, you Why did I cannot find can use "Find Computer" to find NAS-7410.
  • Page 124 OpenView) to receive relative traps. traps to the administrator? You can follow the steps below to set up email event: 1. Go to NAS-7410 Admin Home page and select "Network Settings". 2. Select the sub menu "Email". 3. Enable SMTP Protocol.
  • Page 125 Only the accounts that are of Admins group member can add user Why can’t I add user account account to NAS-7410 user database through mouse right-click. If the to NAS-7410 user database login account does not belong to Admins group, although the login...

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