Planet NAS-3410 User Manual Download

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Chapter 1

Introduction

To accommodate the increasing storage demands for enterprise, small business, SOHO, and

home use, PLANET provides a reliable and affordable solution, the NAS-3410. Regardless of the

operating systems installed in your network, the NAS-3410 has straightforward setup procedures

and can be installed in any existing network environment using its simple and intuitive

management interface.

1.1 Features

• 4 ATA 133 hot swappable IDE trays

• Supports RAID 0, 1, 5, JBOD with global hot-spare and RAID expansion

• Support smart-signaling & network-type UPS

• Two integrated 10/100/1000M Gigabit Ethernet ports

• Multi-protocol system support for Microsoft, Apple, UNIX/LINUX, and Novell networks

• Multi-language support and user friendly web management interface

• Fully integrated ability for Windows 2000 domains, NT 4.0 domains, and UNIX NIS domains

• Supports ACL (Access Control List) settings

• User quota control and folder quota control

• Built-in Trend Micro antivirus software

• NAS-to-NAS data synchronization with SmartSync

• Advanced RAID bad sector recovery mechanism

• E-mail notification, SNMP management (MIB II) and system buzzer alerts

• NAStart software utility for quick setup and system configuration backup

• Environmental monitoring of system/CPU temperature, CPU fan speed and CPU voltages

• Snapshot provides the ultimate solution to satisfying short-term backup needs (optional)

• The SmartExtend technology (IP Storage Aggregation) allows you to add NAS capacity on

demand (optional)

• Backup and archive important data to the local tape drive, or CD/DVD writer (optional)

1.2 Package Contents

The following items should be included:

• NAS Server unit (including 4 HDD trays)

• Power cord

• Screws

Summary of Contents for NAS-3410

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Page 4: ...ling UPS Support 11 3 4 Server Maintenance 12 3 5 Shutting Down the Server 13 3 6 Upgrading the Firmware 13 3 7 License for Optional Features 13 Chapter 4 Network Configuration 15 4 1 Network Information 15 4 2 TCP IP Settings 16 4 3 Windows Settings 17 4 4 UNIX Linux Settings 18 4 5 Macintosh Settings 20 4 6 NetWare Network Settings 20 4 7 Web Data Access Settings 21 4 8 FTP Data Access Settings ...

Page 5: ...curity and ACL 40 6 8 Managing Quotas 42 Chapter 7 Disc Sharing and Data Archiving 51 7 1 Start to Use the Disc Server Function 51 7 2 Creating Disc Images 51 7 3 Managing Discs 52 7 4 Sharing Discs 53 7 5 Burning Disc Images 53 7 6 Archiving Data to CD DVD Discs 54 Chapter 8 User Access 56 8 1 Workgroup or Domain Mode 56 8 2 Accessing from Windows OS 56 8 3 Accessing from Web Browsers 57 8 4 Acce...

Page 6: ...ts 87 Appendix A NAStart Utility 90 Installation 91 System Requirement 91 Installing TCP IP Protocol for Microsoft Networks 91 Installing NAStart 91 Discovering NAS 3410 92 To set the automatic refresh interval 92 Server Quick Setup Using NAStart 92 Importing and Exporting System Settings 93 To export system settings of a NAS Server 93 To import system settings into NAS Servers 93 Browsing Adminis...

Page 7: ...b management interface Fully integrated ability for Windows 2000 domains NT 4 0 domains and UNIX NIS domains Supports ACL Access Control List settings User quota control and folder quota control Built in Trend Micro antivirus software NAS to NAS data synchronization with SmartSync Advanced RAID bad sector recovery mechanism E mail notification SNMP management MIB II and system buzzer alerts NAStar...

Page 8: ...t your dealer immediately 1 3 Physical Details Front View Power button When the A C power cable is in socket the NAS 3410 will start to initiate Press this button twice to shutdown the NAS 3410 Press once again to switch on the server LED definition On Off Blink Amber 1000M link No link 1000M activity Green 100M link No link 100M activity LAN 1 Yellow 10M link No link 10M activity Amber 1000M link...

Page 9: ...Green Power on Power Fault Yellow Fault NAS System Board Diagram 3 ...

Page 10: ...CS before installing to the hard disk tray Refer to your hard disk s user manual for the instruction Step 3 Secure and mount a hard disk onto the HDD tray using four screws under the tray Warning When connecting the power connector to the HDD the connector has rounded edges on the top of the connector that should be placed in the proper position to avoid equipment damage or electric shock 4 ...

Page 11: ...e server to boot up The boot up process takes approximately 2 minutes and the real time status will be displayed on the front LCD panel More Info About HDD Trays The NAS 3410 has 4 hot swappable HDD trays which can be used to install 3 5 IDE hard drive each You don t need to turn off the server when replacing a failed hard drive The hard drive must be 3 5 ATA66 100 133 IDE compliance However DO NO...

Page 12: ...ast Red On RAID building rebuilding expanding or disk scanning Amber On Off HDD is ready for being hot unplugged Amber Blinks Fast Off HDD carrier fan error Blinking interval is about 0 5 second Amber Blinks Slowly Off Disk faulty Blinking interval is about 2 seconds Green Amber Interleaves Off IDE cable connect error Off Off No power Hard disk is absent IDE cable is not connected ...

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Page 14: ...55 255 0 0 LAN 3 gateway 192 168 3 1 LAN 1 IP 192 168 1 1 Enter Yes Configure LAN 1 IP Gateway Mask Configure LAN 1 Yes No No Enter Yes Configure LAN 2 IP Gateway Mask Configure LAN 2 Yes No No Enter Yes Configure LAN 3 IP Gateway Mask Configure LAN 3 Yes No No Only display when Gigabit Ethernet Adapter is installed System will automatically display the next screen every two seconds when idle LCD ...

Page 15: ...ndicates that the IP address can be configured using the LCD console LAN1 IP 192 168 1 1 3 Move the cursor to Yes by pressing the left button and then press the middle button to confirm Configure LAN 1 Yes No 4 Move the cursor to the correct position using the left or right button Then press the middle button to change that number LAN1 IP 192 168 1 1 7 ...

Page 16: ...the cursor to Save and save the setting or Edit to repeat the above process or Abort to quit the configuration process without saving Exit LAN 1 Menu Save Edit Abort 8 Repeat the above process to configure the other LAN port 2 3 Accessing the Administration Home Page You can configure the detail settings of your NAS 3410 in the administration home page To access the administration home page type t...

Page 17: ...ded in the CD ROM right click on a NAS server on the left hand tree view pane Select Admin page item from the right click menu to open the administration page It will prompt for username and password By factory default the username is admin and no password is needed ...

Page 18: ... in Windows Network Neighborhood Date Time Server date and time in 24 hour format Time Zone The time zone setting of the server relative to the Greenwich standard time Language Codepage The language used by the server to interpret the server name user names share names file names etc Technically it specifies the codepage which is used to interpret the characters CP437 DOSLatinUS Latin characters f...

Page 19: ... Using this account users have access to the administration homepage and all the storage resources By default the password for this user account is empty To prevent security vulnerability it is strongly suggested to specify the password when performing the first time setup of the NAS 3410 To specify or modify the administrator s password please select the ServerÆPassword menu on the administration...

Page 20: ...times necessary to have an overview of all system settings current system status and event better all event logs It also helps a lot if a server itself can send out these files by email The NAS 3410 does all the above within several mouse clicks First of all you have to create a system folder which is used for storing these files The system folder is also required when performing tape backup jobs ...

Page 21: ...The settings related to the storage like shares ACLs user database will not be cleared Scheduled shutdown and power on To set the automatic power on and shutdown schedules select the ServerÆShutdown menu Click the Schedule tab to modify the schedules On the schedule settings page you can set daily or day of month schedules Check the Enable check boxes and specify the time of powering on or shuttin...

Page 22: ... English letters Please note that license keys are case sensitive 3 Click Apply to save the settings 4 The activation is successful if the License Type becomes Full Enable Trials Administrators can have trials of the optional features Each trial spans 30 days During the trial period the optional features are full functional Click the Activate Trials hyperlink to enable the trial It activates all t...

Page 23: ...he security policy of the network protocol The TCP IP Suite Settings section shows the various TCP IP settings of the server Port Display Ethernet port IP Address An identifier for a network resource on a TCP IP network Subnet Mask A subnet mask used to determine what subnet an IP address belongs to Gateway A node on a network that work as a point of entry to another network Speed Mode 10 100 1000...

Page 24: ... which are independent to each other Fault Tolerance Uses LAN2 to take over for the LAN1 if LAN1 is fail to connect to the network which designed to ensure server availability to the network Load Balancing Offers increased network bandwidth by allowing transmission to multiple destination addresses using both LAN1 and LAN2 If the traffic of one of the LAN port starts to get congested requests are ...

Page 25: ...save the setting To disable a LAN port enter 0 0 0 0 in its IP address field If you happen to disable all LAN ports and cannot access the administration page please use the LCD panel to change the IP address to non zero values 4 3 Windows Settings NAS 3410 is using SMB CIFS protocol short for Server Message Block Common Internet File System a protocol used by Microsoft to share files directories a...

Page 26: ...eterogeneous network files created by non NFS client could possess incorrect ownership information and generate inaccurate quota information for UNIX Linux clients due to the unmatched UID and GID A mapping is needed to maintain the correct identity of the user using multiple protocols to access NAS 3410 for example Windows and UNIX Linux clients Windows based clients need to map the Windows user ...

Page 27: ...value 1 represent that the UID GID is equal to the default UID GID configured above Or 7 Click Apply to save the settings Configuring NIS settings The NIS network information services formerly known as Yellow Pages is a UNIX standard for centralizing the management of UNIX resources The NAS 3410 supports the retrieval of user accounts and their UID GID from a NIS server If the NIS support is enabl...

Page 28: ... dot is the network number The number to the right of the dot is the node number Configuring Macintosh Network Settings 1 Click the Enable Macintosh Network AFP Protocol checkbox to enable access for AFP client 2 Select a protocol and click the radio button beside it 3 Click the Local account authentication radio button to authenticate user using the server s local user database 4 Or click the Loc...

Page 29: ...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 4 Or click the Local and domain account authentication radio button to use both local account and Microsoft domain security authentication 5 Select th...

Page 30: ...work management protocol SNMP provides the ability to monitor and gives status information of the SNMP agent to the SNMP management console NAS 3410 behaves as an SNMP agent that answers requests from management console and sends trap information to it The following options should be configured to using SNMP protocol Community A name serves as a simple authentication The communication between the ...

Page 31: ...ter the SMTP Server Address 3 Enter an existing user account name of the SMTP server 4 Enter the password of the account 5 Enter up to two email addresses you want to send email notification to when event occurred 6 Click the Send a test email checkbox if you want to send out a test email to validate your email setting 7 Click Apply to save the setting 4 11 SSL Settings The NAS 3410 enables secure...

Page 32: ... Suppose that the server IP address is 192 168 1 10 To access the NAS 3410 s web pages with SSL connection please open https 192 168 1 10 for the user homepage or https 192 168 1 10 admin for the administration homepage If the server certificate with the server name is chosen please open https server_name instead ...

Page 33: ... to the next section for more information about RAID Free Space indicates the volume usage by showing the free storage space in the volume and the percentage Total Space indicates the volume size Status indicates the disk activity on the volume The disk activity may be one of the following Ready The volume is mounted and ready for data access Not Ready The volume is not mounted successfully It is ...

Page 34: ...ks are not used yet They can be used to create volumes or assigned as hot spare disks Volume Details and Renaming a Volume To change the name of a volume click its Volume Name hyperlink in the List of Volumes table It brings to another page for displaying detailed information of the volume You can modify the volume name on that page Device View It is a list of all the storage devices connected wit...

Page 35: ... Ultra DMA which is a faster DMA mode PIO Modes PIO Mode 2 8 3 Mbytes sec PIO Mode 3 11 1 Mbytes sec PIO Mode 4 16 6 Mbytes sec DMA Modes Multiword DMA Mode 2 16 6Mbytes sec Ultra DMA Mode 2 33 Mbytes sec Ultra DMA Mode 3 44 Mbytes sec Ultra DMA Mode 4 66 Mbytes sec Ultra DMA Mode 5 100 Mbytes sec Ultra DMA Mode 6 133 Mbytes sec 5 2 Creating a Volume The first thing for the administrator to do wit...

Page 36: ...me When setting a Write Once volume you are not allowed to erase or change what you have written on this volume This setting CANNOT be reverted in any situation please think it twice before you enable it 5 3 Deleting a Volume To delete a volume go to the VolumeÆDelete page Select the volume to be deleted and click the Delete button Please be very careful because all data in the volume will be dest...

Page 37: ...Extend target volumes via the Giga or Fast Ethernet ports A target volume can provide up to 2TB of capacity so it can increase NAS capacity by as much as 20TB The following table explains some terms used by SmartExtend SmartExtend Initiator A NAS head It can add more capacity by connecting with SmartExtend target volumes over network A SmartExtend initiator can connect to 10 SmartExtend target vol...

Page 38: ...ional feature which must be activated by a license key Please contact the vendor to obtain the license key All NAS 3410 can become SmartExtend targets You do not have to activate the function Follow the steps below to build a SmartExtend connection between an initiator and a target on the SmartExtend initiator system 1 After getting the license key go to the Server Æ License page to enter the lice...

Page 39: ...p 6 b d Click the Finish button 9 On the VolumeÆSmartExtend page you will see the target volume listed in the table It will need about 10 30 seconds to build the connection depending on network traffic Click the Refresh hyperlink to refresh the page The device name should be SED01 standing for SmartExtend Device number 01 10 Go to the VolumeÆInformation page check if SED01 is in the Free Disks lis...

Page 40: ...To enable the feature please click the Configure hyperlink on the VolumeÆScan page Set the Disk Auto scanning item to Enabled 5 8 Hot swapping You may have to change hard disks in some situations such as hard disk failure degraded RAID or general maintenance The NAS 3410 supports HDD hot swapping Below are the instructions of replacing hard disks 1 Identify which hard disk fails The amber LED of t...

Page 41: ...and the status of the operation mode The Information page is divided into two sections The Security Database section display the number of shares number of ACL nodes and number of user group Number of Shares Total number of share created in NAS 3410 Number of ACL Nodes Total number of ACL node created ACL tells NAS 3410 which access right each user has to a folder or an individual file Number of A...

Page 42: ...name You can also grant administrator privilege to a local group Groups with administrator privilege are indicated by a sign at the suffix of the name To create a local user 1 Go to SecurityÆAccountÆLocal Account menu 2 Click the Add User button 3 Type in the user name and enter the password 4 Re type the password to confirm 5 Click Apply to save the setting To create a local group 1 Go to Securit...

Page 43: ...nes some parameters related to the accounts like passwords user quotas groups etc Also it can be used to create user folders in a batch Below is an example of the text file username password group user quota user folder folder quota create default ACL user001 aa1aa1 groupA 1GB vol 1 users user001 1GB yes user002 bb2bb2 groupA 1GB vol 1 users user002 1GB yes user101 101101 groupB 10GB vol 1 users u...

Page 44: ...se This function synchronizes the domain accounts cached in the NAS user database with the native domain controller New domain accounts in the domain controller will be added to the NAS user database while the non existent domain accounts will be removed from the NAS user database Due to the limitation of system resource the user database synchronization will be skipped if there are more than 10 2...

Page 45: ... the host list 6 Click Apply to save the setting 6 5 Creating Share and Assigning Share Permissions You can share a specific folder in any volume created in the NAS 3410 with others on the network When you create a share you can assign the permission to the share that other users will be allowed or denied when they access the share over the network To create a new share 1 Go to SecurityÆFile Folde...

Page 46: ...owing share permission to a user on NAS 3410 No Access NA Account has been denied access to the share Read Only RO Account is allowed to read the share Change CH Account is allowed to read and write to the share Full Control FC Account is allowed to read both read and write and change permission to the file or folder To assign share permission of a share for UNIX Linux Host 1 Go to SecurityÆShare ...

Page 47: ...ess to multiple volumes from one single share with each volume appearing as a single folder under the share Utilized on SmartExtend volumes which are usually big in size an aggregation share can present several tera bytes of data to network users The NCP protocol does not work on aggregation shares The directory hierarchy is like nas share01 vol 001 nas share01 vol 002 nas share01 vol 003 vol 001 ...

Page 48: ...wo built in user accounts Admin and Guest And two built in group accounts Admins and Everyone Every user of NAS 3410 including local and Domain user is the member of the Everyone group By default when a volume is created Admins and Admin will be granted Full Control permission and Everyone will be granted Read Write permission to the volume After you set permissions on a volume all the new files a...

Page 49: ...cient way to set up and maintain file folder security in Windows Network To change permissions you must have been granted permission to do so by the administrator Below is the permission mapping table of NAS 3410 in Windows Network File Folder Permission in NAS 3410 Folder Permission in Windows Network File Permission in Windows Network No Access NA Full Control Modify Read Execute List Folder Con...

Page 50: ...from an existing groups or users click the Allow or Deny checkbox 4 Or remove the groups or users by clicking the Remove button To change owner of a file or folder 1 Go to SecurityÆFile Folder menu 2 If you want to change the owner s name of the corresponding file and folder click the owner s name hyperlink Select a new owner from the user list 3 Check the checkbox beside Apply to all sub folders ...

Page 51: ...y the quota value in the Set all quotas to xx MB input field Click the Set hyperlink to save settings Configuring folder quota Folder quota monitors the amount of data that can be stored on the folder on which folder quota is applied regardless of who saves there It can limit the total amount of data stored in the NAS 3410 to effectively control the proper consumption of the storage resources Note...

Page 52: ...calculate to obtain the most updated information of the total amount of disk space in use on each folder To set all quotas to the same value please specify the quota value in the Set all quotas to xx MB input field Click the Set hyperlink to save settings 44 ...

Page 53: ...ages Click Apply to save the settings Insert a disc into the CD or DVD device It should start duplicating the disc image immediately When it finishes network users can access the disc by opening the MIRROR share of the NAS server 7 2 Creating Disc Images Using the local optical device to duplicate disc images The simplest and fastest way to create a disc image is to use the CD or DVD device of NAS...

Page 54: ...nd click the Re scan images hyperlink to the right of the page To set up the NAS to discover disc images regularly please open the Disc ServerÆInformation page Configure the Disc Server Settings to enable the NAS server to scan for disc images every one hour Using the remote mirroring software to create disc images Please refer to Appendix A for how to use the remote mirroring software 7 3 Managin...

Page 55: ...You can also go to the Disc ServerÆDisc Shares page to share a single disc Click the Create Disc Share button Specify the share name and click Apply to create the share Select the disc to share in the Share Target tab and click Apply To share multiple discs To share multiple discs go to the Disc ServerÆDisc Shares page Click the Create Group Share button Specify the share name and click Apply to s...

Page 56: ...es first which can be mounted by the Disc Server function to share to network users in read only forms When the archived data are not in use for a long time you can then choose to burn them to discs freeing the hard disk space The Archive Folder During data archiving the NAS server will first create disc images in the archive folder which is a disc image folder specifically for storing archived da...

Page 57: ... Or you can choose to include only the files of which the archive bits are set The NAS server will clear the archive bits of the source files which are archived if not deleted Advanced Settings Skip Archiving Do archiving only if You can set constraints so that the archiving task is activated only when one of the following conditions is met if the free volume space is lower than n in other words t...

Page 58: ...er requests to access a shared folder the user will be authenticated with the domain accounts first then the local accounts If the user is assigned with proper access rights in the share permissions and the ACL settings the user will be allowed to access the shared folder For those using MacOS web browsers or FTP to access the NAS 3410 the security control mechanism is similar If set to the workgr...

Page 59: ... box and click Apply 5 Set the share permissions After sharing the volume specify the access rights of local users groups and domain users groups Now Windows users can access the NAS 3410 They can run the Windows Explorer and open the path of nasserver The shared folder volume01 will appear in the window Windows users can also map a network drive to nasserver volume01 or use the net use command in...

Page 60: ...ned it prompts for user name and password Then it will display all shared folder after user login The user homepage will be like In the top right corner of the user page are the tool bar icons which provide access to various functions like creating folder or uploading files Below the tool bar are the server name and the login user Lower on the page is a file browsing area Tool bar icons Admin Page...

Page 61: ...omain mode follow the steps below to configure for MacOS user access 1 Enable the Macintosh Network support the AFP protocol Open the administration page and enter the NetworkÆMacintosh menu Check the Enable Macintosh Network check box and specify the security policy and the AppleTalk zone Then click Apply In the workgroup mode you can only select Local account authentication as the security polic...

Page 62: ...checking the ACL of the FTP home directory During an FTP session the server always checks ACL when it receives any FTP requests such as ls put get etc Local accounts and domain accounts are both supported depending on the security policy After setting the NAS 3410 to operate in the workgroup mode or the domain mode follow the steps below to configure for FTP access 1 Enable the FTP Data Access fea...

Page 63: ...r NFS clients to mount 1 Enable the UNIX Linux Network support the NFS protocol Open the administration page and enter the NetworkÆUNIX Linux menu Check the Enable UNIX Linux Network check box and click Apply 2 Go to the SecurityÆAccountÆUNIX Linux Host page and add the hosts that might be trusted to access the NAS 3410 3 Export the volume to NFS clients Go to the SecurityÆFile Folder menu Find th...

Page 64: ...ment To manage snapshots please open the administration page Enter the BackupÆSnapshotÆManage page and select a volume Viewing Snapshot Information On the page shows the snapshots existing on the volume and their information Snapshot Used Space indicates the disk space used by snapshot data In the table List of Snapshots Space to Free indicates the disk space which will be freed if a snapshot is d...

Page 65: ...o 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 The NAS server will delete the snapshots one by one Snapshot Roll back Snapshot roll back is to restore the volume to the state when the selected sn...

Page 66: ...kup Tasks To arrange backup schedules please open the Administration Page and go to BackupÎTape Backup page Click the Backup tab You will see a list of scheduled tasks on that page To add a task click the Add Task button Then follow the steps below 1 Select a tape drive for backup 2 Input the tape label for identifying tapes It will append backup start date time to the tape label when running a ba...

Page 67: ...e Backup page Click the Restore tab and follow the steps below 1 Specify the Tape Drive for restoring 2 Specify a backup set to restore by selecting a backup index The backup indexes are required to restore data from tape When the backup indexes are missing you have to import them from tapes for further restoring operation To import backup indexes please select a tape drive and click the Import hy...

Page 68: ...ith the files 8 Specify whether to overwrite the existing files with the backup files 9 Click the Apply button to start to restore Checking Task Progress Viewing Logs When a tape task is running you can view its progress on the Summary page On the upper Summary page is a list of tape drives Any task currently running will be shown as a hyperlink in the Status column Click a hyperlink to watch task...

Page 69: ...e NAS server will initialize the tape library at start up and lock the door To insert or remove tapes from the tape library with no cartridge access ports CAP please unlock the door first Then follow the tape library s instruction manuals to insert or remove tapes Afterwards lock the door again so that the tape library can resume to work It will start the inventory process automatically to read in...

Page 70: ...venly so that it is properly tensioned Use this feature only when there are errors accessing the tape To retension a tape please click the radio button in front of the slot and click the Retension button Scanning a tape for backup indexes If the backup index files are missing the NAS server will not be able to restore the data In this case please insert the tapes and scan them for backup indexes T...

Page 71: ... the NAS server backs up data to a tape the tape is moved to the save set After the retention period is passed the tape expires and is moved to the scratch set for recycling The retention period is the number of days for which the tape must be kept in the save set after it is last written You can define the retention period when creating a backup task Backing Up Data To start a backup task immedia...

Page 72: ...ckup task 4 Choose to make full backups or incremental backups A full backup will copy all source data An incremental backup will only copy those data with archive bits set After backup the archive bits of the source data will be cleared 5 Specify what to backup by selecting the folders to be backed up 6 Specify whether to enable the hardware compression capability of the tape drives 7 Click Apply...

Page 73: ... the tape retention period A retention period is the number of days in which you want to keep the backup data from being overwritten For example if the retention period is set to 7 days the tape will remain in the save set as long as it has been used and be moved to the scratch set when it has not been used for 7 days F Set overwrite options If Overwrite the media is selected it will only use blan...

Page 74: ...s on the Devices page On the upper page is a list of tape libraries and tape drives Any currently running tasks will be shown as hyperlinks in the Status column Click a hyperlink to watch task progress and details It shows Idle with no hyperlinks if there is no running task After a backup or restoring task finishes it will keep summary logs in the system folder On the Summary page you will see the...

Page 75: ...tSync client and builds an identical data copy in it To create a sync point please go to the BackupÎSmartSync ÎServer 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 Set the mode to Mirror On the NAS 3410 which acts as the SmartSync client set up a ...

Page 76: ...ge you should provide the task name select the source folder to replicate specify the schedule and configure the SmartSync options Step 4 is for confirmation showing the brief information of the task settings Making Disk to disk Backups Two or more NAS 3410s are required one as the SmartSync server the rest as the SmartSync clients It will backup data from the SmartSync clients to the SmartSync se...

Page 77: ...day in the last X days except today c It will keep one backup version per week in the last Y weeks prior to the X days d It will keep one backup version per month in the last Z months prior to the Y weeks On the NAS 3410 which acts as the SmartSync client set up a SmartSync task which defines the schedule settings and the source folder To set up a SmartSync task please go to the BackupÎSmartSync Î...

Page 78: ...s Restore from server Please also provide a user account with the privilege to replicate data to the sync point Step 3 is to complete the task settings On the page you should provide the task name select which backup version to restore specify the target folder and configure the SmartSync options and the overwrite options The overwrite options specify whether to overwrite the target with the files...

Page 79: ...tSync task Step 1 is to specify the IP address of the SmartSync server Step 2 is to choose a sync point of Distribute mode in the SmartSync server Please also provide a user account with the privilege to request data from the sync point Step 3 is to complete the task settings On the page you should provide the task name select the target folder to receive data specify the schedule and configure th...

Page 80: ...e synchronization a lot while taking the risk that files might not be made identical Generate transaction logs when checked it will record which files are added updated or deleted during the data replication The transaction logs are displayed on the SmartSync Summary page 9 5 Loading and Writing CD DVD Discs Connecting a CD or DVD writer to the NAS 3410 you will be able to load data from CD DVD di...

Page 81: ...existing files Overwrite with newer files means it will overwrite the target if the files on the CD DVD disc are newer 4 Click Apply to start copying data When it is copying disc you can see the progress by clicking the hyperlink in the Status column of the Device List A separate browser window will pop up The progress is indicated by the progress bar the Processed Folders item the Processed Files...

Page 82: ... BackupÆLoader Writer page Then follow the steps below 1 Click the Writer tab in BackupÆLoader Writer menu 2 Select the Target Device where you want to burn the blank CD DVD disc s Above the Target Device item you will see a device list for your reference 3 Specify the source folders Please click Select Folders and specify which folders to burn 4 Specify the volume label of the CD or DVD disc 5 Ch...

Page 83: ...current disc 9 6 Backup and Restore System Profiles To recover from system failures it requires restoring data and system configurations Tape backup and SmartSync are for restoring data while system profiles are used for recovering system configurations System profiles are the backups of all system configurations user database and security information Backing Up System Profiles To back up system c...

Page 84: ...m profile Specify restore options and click the Restore button Restore options are Server network and backup settings includes all settings in the Server Network Backup and EventÎConfiguration menus Please note that the admin password will not be restored during the recovery User accounts and quota settings includes local accounts current domain accounts and trust domain accounts together with the...

Page 85: ...isplay schedule virus scanning is either disabled or enabled Virus Scan Status Display virus scanning is either idle or scanning Pattern Update Schedule Display the status schedule for the next virus pattern file update Last successful update Display the date time of the last successful virus pattern file update Scan engine version Display the current scan engine version Virus pattern version Disp...

Page 86: ...n any folders for infected files The scan results will be listed as a scan task summary on the Information page 1 Go to Virus ScanÆ Setting page to configure the scan settings required See Configuring Scan Settings on Section 10 3 2 Click the Manual tab to go to the manual scanning page 3 Click the Select Folders hyperlink to specify the folders you want to perform the manual scan 4 Click Apply to...

Page 87: ...al time manual and scheduled scan Actions When Virus Found 1 Click the desire action when virus was found 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 Configuring a manual update 1...

Page 88: ...rmat here and specify the location of the virus pattern file 3 Click Apply to save the settings Configuring a scheduled update 1 Click the Enable Scheduled Update of Virus Pattern Files checkbox to enable scheduled update 2 Configure the download schedule Select the start time and recurrence pattern for the scheduled update 3 Click Apply to save the settings ...

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Page 90: ...d error level notification o Warning level notification such as very low disk space is detected on volume hot spare disk is consumed and so on o Error level notification such as CPU fan failed volume is degraded or faulty and so on Web Reminder provides instant notification in the administration homepage Email Alert provides notification via email SNMP Trap sends SNMP trap to the Network Manager S...

Page 91: ...severity of each event will be determined by NAS 3410 and displayed in different colors Information Green Warning Yellow Error Red Viewing Web Reminder 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 3410 has been found Administrator can therefore be aware of the status of the...

Page 92: ...curity event of your NAS 3410 that is not related to any protocols 11 3 Viewing System Status System Status displays a comprehensive view of the system fan status thermal status and system voltage You can use this information to quickly find out the problem of your NAS 3410 and take appropriate action In StatusÆEnvironment page you can monitor the CPU fan status CPU and System temperature plus the...

Page 93: ...oad In the StatusÆLoad CPU Memory You can see the CPU usage and memory usage here Total memory and the current free memory are also shown here Network The network throughput in percentage are showed on here 11 4 Share Access Counts On the StatusÆAccess Counts menu page it displays how many times the shares have been accessed The count is added by one whenever a connection to the share is establish...

Page 94: ...Server to avoid tedious setup process to each individual unit on the network Features Server Management z Discovers all NAS Servers on the network z Configures NAS Servers for the first time setup or quick setup z Export Import NAS Servers system settings Creating CD Images Remotely z Remotely loads CD images from a local CD ROM drive into a NAS Server z Collect and duplicates files into NAS Serve...

Page 95: ...nstall Client for Microsoft Networks and the TCP IP protocol in Windows to use NAStart Installing NAStart You are ready to install this utility if the TCP IP protocol is installed in your computer To install NAStart insert the Utility CD into the CD ROM drive On the auto run interface click NAStart Utility If the auto run interface does not appear go to E Utility NAStart and run NAStart exe where ...

Page 96: ...orm initial setup for your NAS 3410 using NAStart 1 Click the button on the toolbar 2 Or go to Server Server Quick Setup 3 Select a NAS Server from the server list and click Next button 4 Choose the Network Teaming Mode from the pull down menu If you are not clear about this feature continue with the default value 5 If you want the IP settings to be assigned automatically click Obtain IP settings ...

Page 97: ... go to Server Export System Settings menu 4 You will prompt for the administrator password to proceed 5 Select a location where you want to save and specify the name of the export file 6 Click Save To import system settings into NAS Servers 1 Right click any NAS Server and select Import System Settings 2 Or go to Server Import System Settings menu 3 You will prompt for the administrator password t...

Page 98: ...the NAS Servers found by the NAStart on the network Also included is My Computer as the one in Windows Explorer My Container keeps information of the files folders that can be built as a CD image in a NAS Server using the Build Image function If you click on any item on the tree view pane its content will be displayed in the list view pane The status bar indicates NAStart status information The le...

Page 99: ... mirrored CD DVD image The following are some examples of browsing the servers Example 1 Content of a disc image folder It displays all the disc images path name size status and file system Tool Bar Functions The tool bar provides an easy access to the main functions of NAStart The following explains what the tool bar icons represent Refresh manually updates the directory content of My Computer or...

Page 100: ...cating CD images into the NAS Server Build Image starts the Build Image wizard to build a CD image from My Container into a NAS Server Server Quick Setup configures some fundamental parameters of a selected NAS Server You can configure an un initialized or initialized server Wizard brings up a wizard for access to major functions Mirror CD Build Image and Server Quick Setup Task Manager opens a ta...

Page 101: ...vokes the Mirror CD wizard as shown below Select a PC CD ROM drive as the source Press Next to continue 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 Then click the button You can see the task being added to the right hand pane C...

Page 102: ...t to change the volume label click the 2 User Define radio button and enter the volume label in the input box Then click the Update button Click the Next button afterwards 4 Specify the date time to run the task Then press Next 5 Set the Mirror CD options if necessary 98 ...

Page 103: ...6 Click OK to start the task The Task Manager will show the progress 99 ...

Page 104: ...The first thing to build a CD DVD image is to collect files Open Windows Explorer and drag drop files into My Container 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 If not you can choose to update My Container 100 ...

Page 105: ...Force mode to allow a second copy of the same CD image Then click the button You can see the task 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 click the Update button Press Next afterwards 5 Specify the date time to run the task Then press OK 101 ...

Page 106: ...6 The Task Manager will show the progress 102 ...

Page 107: ...k menu Specify the parameters in the wizard and click the Add CD R Option button Click Next to continue On the next page specify the launch schedule and click OK Supported CD Formats The Mirror CD function copies CD or DVD discs from a PC CD DVD drive into a NAS Server Below is a list of the supported CD formats that can be mirrored remotely ISO 9660 level 1 2 3 including Romeo Joliet and Rock Rid...

Page 108: ...45 port x 2 COM Port 1 for UPS Network Protocol Supported TCP IP IPX AppleTalk Network Clients Supported Microsoft Windows Red Hat Linux Solaris FreeBSD Novell Netware Macintosh Power Supply Single ATX 370W power supply Dimension 431x177x450mm H x W x D Weight Approximate 4kg no hard disk Operating Environment Temperature 10 40 degree C Humidity 10 80 non condensing Safety Approvals CE FCC Class A...

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