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  • Page 1 Users Manual...
  • Page 2 All Rights Reserved. Visionman makes no warranty or representations, expressed, implied, or statutory, with respect to its products or the contents or use of this documentation and all accompanying software, and specifically disclaims its quality, performance, merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Introduction _____________________________________________________________ 5 Front View __________________________________________________________________ 5 Rear View ___________________________________________________________________ 6 System Setup _____________________________________________________________ 7 Connecting Visionman VCM400/VCM200 to the Network___________________________ 7 Connecting the Ethernet cable and power:________________________________________________ 7 Connecting a USB drive: _____________________________________________________________ 7 Connecting a USB printer: ____________________________________________________________ 8...

  • Page 5: Introduction

    The VCM400/VCM200’s Web-based & Internet style file sharing, in addition to its industry standard network file sharing methods, allows you to store all of your...

  • Page 6: Rear View

    The functionality of the buttons and LED’s are the same between the VCM400 and the VCM200. This manual will use examples for the VCM400, and exceptions for the VCM200 will be noted where necessary. Power Button: Press the power button to turn the VCM400/VCM200 on. The Green LED under the button will indicate that the system is powered on.

  • Page 7: System Setup

    The functionality of the connections on the back is the same between the VCM400 and the VCM200. USB Port: The VCM400 has three USB ports, two in the back and one in the front. The VCM200 has two USB ports in the back. These ports allow for the connection of USB devices like a USB hard drive, a USB flash drive, or a USB printer.

  • Page 8: Connecting A Usb Printer

    Connecting a USB printer: Connect the USB cable to the top USB port on the rear of the VCM400/VCM200. Connect the other end of the USB cable to your USB printer. Install the printer driver if it is not installed on the computer you are printing from.

  • Page 9: System Configuration

    In some cases it may be necessary to open the configuration file directly. You can do this by clicking on Start, Run, and then typing in //VCM200 or //VCM400 depending on which unit you have. You will be prompted for a username and password.

  • Page 10: System Configuration

    It will be the same as previously mentioned (admin/admin). Once you have clicked on OK or hit ENTER, you will see the following screen: Open the configuration folder by double-clicking on that folder’s icon. Once inside this folder, open the Index file by double-clicking its icon. This will bring you to the configuration login screen in the same way as typing the IP address or name directly into your browser.
  • Page 11 NOTE: If at any time you have questions about any of the screens, when you are configuring your VCM200/VCM400, you can just click on the button and on online help screen will appear. This can be a source of good information for you and eliminate...

  • Page 12: General Setup Screen

    General Setup Screen This screen allows you to configure the basic information about the VCM400/VCM200 storage appliance, such as give a name and brief description for the machine, select the web GUI protocol, and set the time zone for your storage device. You can also set the date and time or enable automatic time synchronization via NTP (Network Time Protocol) Service.

  • Page 13: Alerts Setup

    Alerts Setup In the Alerts setup screen, you can configure the system to automatically send e-mails or pop-up messages for event notification, to the administrator to monitor the functionality of the storage device. These messages can be warnings or errors related to Fan, temperature, Hard Drive functionality, Volume, Network, USB, Users and Groups.

  • Page 14: Change Admin Password

    Change Admin Password Change the administrator password: nter the old password. Enter the new password. The maximum length of the password must not be more than 15 alphanumeric characters. Password is case sensitive and should be entered exactly in the same way each time. Re-enter the new password.

  • Page 15: Firmware Update

    Select Browse to locate the file that you downloaded and select the correct IMG file (e.g. VCM200_V0_1_6.img). Select Submit to transfer the firmware file from your computer to the VCM400/VCM200 storage appliance. Do not interrupt the firmware upgrade process. This may cause the system to become disabled, and unable to function.

  • Page 16: Printer Management

    Connect the USB printer to the storage device. Open My Network Places > Entire Network > Microsoft Windows Network > Workgroup Name > Machine Name (where Machine Name is the name of the VCM400/VCM200 storage appliance), then right-click on the printer icon and select Connect.

  • Page 17: Configuration Management

    Selecting General Restore restores all features except the settings for data volume and shares to its previously saved settings. While Full Restore erases all data on the VCM400/VCM200 and revert the data volume and shares to its previously saved settings.
  • Page 18 To restore VCM400/VCM200 to factory defaults: Performing a factory default reset will erase all settings in VCM400/VCM200. System settings such as the IP address, machine name, admin user name, password, RAID reconstructs, and media files stored in VCM400/VCM200 are lost.

  • Page 19: Advanced Setup

    SSL is a protocol for managing the security of passing data back and forth between a client computer and VCM400/VCM200 over the network. SSL uses two keys — a public and a private key, to encrypt data and to ensure a scalable, efficient, and secure file- sharing over the Internet.
  • Page 20 Enter the necessay information for generating an SSL certificate, then click Submit. To use the “extend disk mode” feature: By default, your storage system will place the installed disks in what is called a “span” configuration. This utilizes all available disk space for networked storage. If your storage system does not have all the disk slots used you may want to add more capacity later.

  • Page 21: Network: Lan Setup Screen

    Network: LAN Setup Screen This screen allows access to all network configuration options; such as setting the connection method, changing the IP address, netmask, gateway, DNS (Domain Name Service) server IP address, and the ability to configure the optional jumbo frame size. DHCP is the default network IP setting for the storage device.
  • Page 22 Click Submit. You must restart the system for these changes to take effect.

  • Page 23: Network: Services

    For example if your VCM400/VCM200’s IP address is set to 11.45.57.82, entering ftp://11.45.57.82 in a browser or Windows Explorer address bar will access the VCM400/VCM200’s public contents. NFS services allow you to share files with other Linux or UNIX clients or clients who have the NFS...
  • Page 24 To enable the NFS file service on VCM400/VCM200: On the Services page, click the NFS service Enable checkbox. The IP Allowed box appears. Enter the IP filters that are allowed for NFS service, then click Add to add the new IP filter, and select Submit.

  • Page 25: Workgroup/Domain Setup

    When configured as a domain member, the storage system requests are coordinated by the domain controller on your network to authenticate users. Domain mode has more restrictive security levels, as network users must enter appropriate passwords before gaining access to VCM400/VCM200. When joining a domain, VCM400/VCM200 needs the authorization of the domain’s administrator.
  • Page 26 To join a domain as a member: Select the Domain Member button. In the Domain Name box, enter the domain name. In the Domain Controller IP Address box, enter the domain controller’s IP address. In the Administrator box, enter the administrator’s user name. In the Administrator Password box, enter the administrator’s password.

  • Page 27: Storage Screens

    Disk Management Screen The Disk Management screen provides a detailed summary of the hard drives, installed on VCM400/VCM200. Again, on a VCM400, you will see up to four drives listed, unlike the two drives on the VCM200. The drive status allows you to monitor hard drive fault conditions and activity.

  • Page 28: Volume Management

    The Manage Volume tab contains a table that shows all volumes currently defined on the VCM400/VCM200’s hard drives and provides access to configuration details relating to how the disks are partitioned and how RAID volumes are created on these partitions.
  • Page 29 Degraded - A drive is missing or contains corrupted data for the existing volume. Recovering - Occurs when the system detects a spare drive that was inserted into a degraded RAID volume.

  • Page 30: Manage Raid

    WARNING: CHANGING THE RAID TYPE WILL ERASE ALL DATA. PLEASE BACKUP YOUR FILES BEFORE CHANGING THE RAID SETTINGS. Manage RAID The Manage RAID screen allows you to configure the SATA hard drives into different RAID types. RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disk Drives) refers to an array of multiple independent hard drives that provide high performance and reliability.
  • Page 31 • RAID configuration is span. VCM400 supports the following RAID levels: Stripe (RAID 0) - All data are distributed evenly to all existing drives. The two drives work in unison to maximize system performance. However, RAID 0 has high risks of data security.
  • Page 32 Default RAID configuration: The default RAID configuration for each hard drive installed on VCM400 is as follows: If one drive is installed to an empty drive bay, the default RAID configuration •...

  • Page 33: Share Management

    Share Management This screen provides access to configuration details relating to how shares are made available by the VCM400/VCM200. This menu contains a table that shows all the shares, logical volumes, and protocols currently defined on the VCM400/VCM200 system.
  • Page 34 VCM400/VCM200 using a Web browser. This method of access is unique, as most NAS boxes will not allow you to access the files in this way. You can, quite literally, access the files on the VCM400/VCM200 from any system with a web browser regardless, including some PDA’s and cell phones.
  • Page 35 Assign a new share name. The share name can contain up to 32 characters, including alphabetic, numeric, or underscore. Enter a brief description, if desired. Select a file sharing protocol. Click Submit to save your changes. To delete existing shares: Select the share you want to delete.

  • Page 36: Usb Management

    Select the USB hard drive you want to format and click the Format icon. A dialog box appears warning that all data will be erased. Click OK. To disconnect a USB hard drive from VCM400/VCM200: On the USB Disk tab, select the device you wish to remove. Click the Safely Remove Disk icon.

  • Page 37: Usb Backup

    USB port number one, which is next to the Ethernet port on the VCM200 and on the front for the VCM400, has been configured to handle the automatic backup of the contents of a USB drive attached to the VCM200/VCM400. You can use the other USB port(s) for transferring data to and from the storage system, but only USB port one can be used for automatic backup.

  • Page 38: Access Control Section

    Access Control Section The Access Control screens allow you to configure access to files and folder in the Storage Appliance. User Management The User Management screen allows the system administrator to create, edit, and delete user accounts on the system. Administrators can create Public or Private user accounts and further customize these accounts with privilege levels.
  • Page 39 password in the Password box. The user name and passwords are case sensitive, and can contain up to 15 characters, including alphabet, numbers, underscore, and some special characters. In the Confirm Password box, re-enter the password for confirmation. In the Group List select a previously created Group for the user to join in. Click the >>...
  • Page 40 The above screen shows the new user has been added successfully. To modify a user account: Select the user account you want to modify. Click the Modify icon. The following screen will come up:...
  • Page 41 Make the changes you want, then click Submit. To delete a user: Select the user account you want to delete. Click the Delete icon.

  • Page 42: Group Management

    You will get a warning about deleting of the user. Click on OK, and the user will be deleted. Group Management The Group Management submenu allows administrators to create, edit, and delete a group of users on the system.
  • Page 43 To create a new local group: Click the Create icon. And the following screen will come up:...
  • Page 44 Assign a new group name for the new group. As before, the name can be up to 32 characters long. Enter a description for the new group. In the User List, add the users that you want to have access to the group. And Click Submit.
  • Page 45 Make the changes you want, and then click Submit. To delete a local group: Select the group you want to delete. Click the Delete icon.
  • Page 46 You will get a warning to confirm the deletion of the user group. You will get the above screen to confirm that the group has been deleted.

  • Page 47: Share Access

    Full Access Read Only No Access When there is a conflict in the access rights of the user and group, VCM400/VCM200 uses the following rule to handle the conflict: No Access has the highest priority. Read Write + Read Only = Full Access.
  • Page 48 To assign privilege levels for users or groups: Select a user or group, then click the Edit icon. The upper section of the page contains an information table that lists the share folder’s logical volume name and supported file service protocol. Each defined user or group must have a privilege level for every shared folder you create.

  • Page 49: Usb Access

    The USB Access submenu allows you to set the access control for the two USB ports on the rear of VCM200, and the one additional USB port in the front of the VCM400. There are three privilege levels that you can assign to a user or group are Full Access, Read Only, or No Access.

  • Page 50: Using The Media Server

    Using the Media Server This feature allows the Storage appliance to automatically sort media files into Music, Photo and Video categories and make them available on the network. Enable the Media Service by selecting the Enable button. You can also decide if you want the media files sorted in alphabetical order or by the date the file was created.

  • Page 51: Using The Status Menu

    The above screen will show that media content in the storage system has been identified and sorted. Using the Status Menu The Status menu displays general information about the system, such as machine name, firmware version, current date/time, machine up-time, and volume of the storage space that is being used.

  • Page 52: Logs

    Logs Logs screen includes five tabs — System, CIFS, FTP, Printer, Settings. It displays a record of activity that has occurred on storage device. Each activity displays a time and date associated with the event and a description of the activity that took place. Settings Tab...
  • Page 53 In the settings tab, you can decide the sequence that the log should be showed and the size of the log. System In the System tab, you will view information about the system, file and services requested, Web pages transferred from VCM400/VCM200 to a client computer, or print events.
  • Page 54 The above is an example of the display from the system logs screen. The System Logs records significant problems that occur in the system. You can obtain information from the following conditions or errors that may occur in the system components, hardware or software components.
  • Page 55 The CIFS (Common Internet File System) tab displays the file and print services log of CIFS clients. The FTP (File Transfer Protocol) tab displays file transfer sessions to and from the VCM400/VCM200. Printer The Printer tab displays the print services log.

  • Page 56: Product Support

    VCM400/VCM200. Troubleshooting For any issue, first ensure that you are using the latest firmware for the Visionman VCM400/VCM200. If you are unable to resolve your server problems on your own, contact your dealer or Visionman for assistance. First Steps Checklist...
  • Page 57 Try a different network cable. Cannot view System Configuration Utility in the Web browser. Make sure JavaScript is enabled in your browser. The following describes how to enable JavaScript using Internet Explorer 6.0 and Mozilla Firefox (1.0 and 1.5) for Windows.

  • Page 58: Technical Specifications

    8 MB cache and above RAID Constructs RAID 0 (Stripe), 1 (Mirror), 5 (Parity), Linear (Span) USB interface 3 (VCM400) and 2 (VCM200) x USB 2.0 ports for USB device extension and file backup Ethernet (10/100/1000) Gigabit Ethernet port DHCP (Auto IP, changes), Static (Manual, constant)

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