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SnapServer GuardianOS 6.5 Setup Guide
Configuring Email Notification, Task Scheduling, and Security
Configuring Email Notification
The SnapServer can provide email notification when certain events occur on the
system.
1. Navigate to
Server > Email Notification
in the Web Management Interface.
2. Enable Email Notification, specify the SMTP server’s IP address and email
addresses, and indicate whether you want to use SMTP Authentication or
Secure Connection.
3. Optionally, change the default ‘from’ email address for server event notices.
4. Check the box by each event requiring administrator notification and click
OK
.
Scheduling Data Protection Tasks
Scheduling snapshots and antivirus scans, and creating a disaster recovery image
preserves your server configuration and protects your data from loss or corruption.
Snapshots can be taken to provide a point-in-time image of files and changes to files to
help in quickly recovering from accidental deletion or modification, or to facilitate
performing an offline tape backup of an active data partition.
Navigate to
Storage > Snapshots
in the browser-based Web Management Interface to
schedule snapshots or modify the space available for storing snapshots. Snapshots
should be taken when the system is idle or under low data traffic.
Click the
SnapExtensions
icon
, and then click
CA Antivirus
.
Click the checkbox to
enable antivirus, and click
OK
.
Then
click the
configure
link to launch the
e
Trust
administration user interface for configuration and scheduling of virus scans and
virus signature file updates.
Create a disaster recovery image (DRImage) on the
Maintenance > Disaster Recovery
page.
This DRImage should be created after the server configuration is complete, and can be
used to recover the server or a replacement server to the configured state.
Configuring Share and Folder Security
SnapServers support file access in Windows, UNIX, and Apple networks, as well as
access via FTP and HTTP. Although the GuardianOS runs on an optimized Linux
kernel and has many Linux characteristics, the cross-platform features make it very
different than a pure Linux distribution. Systems running GuardianOS are storage
appliances dedicated to file services. Administrators should not expect the same
behavior as a pure Linux system when administering the SnapServer.
By default, volumes are created with the Windows/Mixed security model (Windows-
style ACLs for files created by SMB clients and UNIX-style permissions for files
created by other protocols and processes), and allow all users to create, delete, and
configure permissions on their own files and to access files and directories created by
other users.
New shares are created by default with full read-write access to all users, subject to
the file system permissions on the share target directory. The first step to securing a
SnapServer is to specify access at the individual share level. Administrators can
assign Read/Write or Read-Only share access to individual Windows (and local) users
and groups.
Hidden Shares
There are three ways a share can be hidden in GuardianOS:
