1. ReadyNAS L2 Training Session 2 (Wizard Install, RAIDar & Frontview)
Presented by xxx
May 31, 2007

2. Wizard Installation (up-and-running)

3. RAIDar Installation

4. RAIDar Installation

5. RAIDar Installation

6. RAIDar Installation

7. RAIDar Installation

8. RAIDar Installation

9. RAIDar

10. RAIDar
RAIDar is a simple monitoring tool allowing users to monitor multiple NAS units in a single application
Accessed through the RAIDar desktop or Quick Launch icon

11. RAIDar 1 4
1) The info column displays boot and installation status, or OS version when ReadyNAS is ready to use
2) The Setup button starts the FrontView program
3) Hovering over buttons brings context sensitive help
4) Indicator lights change color depending on the state 3 2

12. Security Certificate Warning
If your browser security blocks access to the Frontview Admin screen, select “Continue to this website” to proceed.

13. When logging into Frontview you may receive an error if there is a problem with one or more drives.

14. Frontview Admin screen
URL for direct access to Frontview (

15. Select the correct time zone

16. Add a valid email account
(Note: You must have at least one specified to use Alerts)

17. By default , the IP assignment is DHCP client.

18. If needed you change the default hostname here.

19. To easily recover the Admin password, enter a recovery question and a valid address to send the password to.

20. File Protocols (screen 1 of 2)
Use this screen to set the default protocols that will be supported
By Default CIFS, AFP, HTTP and HTTPS are selected

21. File Protocols (screen 2 of 2)

22. Change the workgroup name to your default workgroup
Note: If you are on a domain, you will need to select the Domain setting and enter the correct information

23. Media Servers (screen 1 of 2)
Slimdevices, Itunes, UPNP AV, and Syabas based clients are supported

24. Media Servers (screen 2 of 2)
The ReadyNAS supports Syabas based clients using the Home Media Streaming Server selection

25. All existing Shares are shown on this screen
You can set which file protocols are supported on each share
Any USB devices that are attached to the ReadyNAS will be listed here

26. Use this screen to create shares, set passwords, and set quota limits

27. If a USB UPS device is connected to the ReadyNAS it will be listed here

28. Once the Wizard installation is finished the registration key will be provided

29. Wizard Installation Finished

30. FrontView

31. Frontview (Main) Welcome Accessed through RAIDar or URL
Gives Overview of system info

32. Frontview (Network) Options Network options consist of: Ethernet
Global settings
WINS
DHCP

33. Frontview (Network) Ethernet (pg 1 of 2)
Any NIC card errors can be seen through the Show errors button
Default MTU value can be changed to fix some throughput issues
You can change the IP setting from DHCP client to static here

34. Frontview (Network) Ethernet (pg 2 of 2)
Do not enable VLAN unless the clients also support VLAN
The ReadyNAS only supports one VLAN (on 1100 two, one for each NIC)
Enable Jumbo Frames is off by default. Only enable this if client systems (and router) support Jumbo Frames
Jumbo frame size for the ReadyNAS is 7936

35. Frontview (Network) Global Network Settings
The default hostname is nas- followed by the last 3 bytes of the MAC address
The Default Gateway and DNS settings can only be changed when the ReadyNAS has a static IP

36. Frontview (Network) WINS
Specify the WINS server if you want the ReadyNAS to be browsable from other subnets
Only select Enable WINS if there are no other WINS servers on the network

37. Frontview (Network) DHCP
The DHCP Server setting is only available if the ReadyNAS is assigned a static IP

38. Frontview (Security) Options SECURITY options consist of:
Admin Password
Security Mode
User & Group Accts

39. Frontview (Security) Admin Password
The Admin user is the only user that can access FrontView and administer privileges
Create a password recovery question and enter a valid address in case you forget your password

40. Frontview (Security) Security Mode (pg 1 of 2)
ReadyNAS offers 3 security modes
Workgroup name must be 15 characters or less
Workgroup name must start with a letter
Only 3 special characters supported: dash, underscore and period

41. Frontview (Security) Security Mode (pg 2 of 2)
Domain should be automatically auto-detected, if not then specify the domain servers IP
Use of ReadyNAS in a Domain with more than 1000 users is not recommended

42. Frontview (Security) Users and Group Accts
Default Quota setting is 0 (no quota) on shares
Note: Quota entries are in megabytes (MB) not gigabytes

43. Frontview (Services) Options Services options consist of:
File Protocols
Streaming Services
Discovery Services

44. Frontview (Services) Standard File Protocols (pg 1 of 2 )
Standard File Protocols that are enabled by default are CIFS; AFP; HTTP; HTTPS

45. Frontview (Services) Standard File Protocols (pg 2 of 2 )
Default HTTP folder is Media
Webserver requires index.htm or index.html file in web access share

46. Frontview (Services) Streaming Services (pg 1 of 2)
Four streaming services are supported: Slimserver; Itunes; UPNP AV, Syabas based server
All streaming services stream directly from the ReadyNAS
The Slimserver and Itunes server only stream audio

47. Frontview (Services) Streaming Services (pg 2 of 2)
The UPNP AV server is DLNA compliant
The UPNP AV server and the Home Media Streaming Server stream video, music and photos
Note: The media servers do not support “all” media formats (and codec's). Check the documentation or support site for supported formats

48. Frontview (Services) Discovery Services
Note: Only uncheck the services you do not plan on using. When unchecked the ReadyNAS will not advertise it’s services on the local network

49. Frontview (Volumes) Options Volumes options consist of:
Volume Settings
USB Storage

50. Frontview (Volumes) Volume Settings RAID Configuration
Note: FlexRAID configuration includes a Remove button to allow deletion of individual drives. X-RAID does not allow this option
Note: FlexRAID includes a Delete Volume button, which X-RAID does not

51. Frontview (Volumes) Volume Settings Snapshot (pg 1 of 2)
Snapshots are designed to allow backing up of a volume while it is still being used
Snapshots can be scheduled from once every 4 hours to once a week
By default the ReadyNAS ships with a Snapshot reserved space of 5GB.
You can manually take a snapshot by selecting the Take Snapshot now button.
Volume Settings
Snapshot (pg 1 of 2)

52. Frontview (Volumes) Volume Settings Snapshot (pg 2 of 2)
Note: Space reserved for snapshots is set in percent of drive space, not in MB/GB.
If you are constantly getting snapshot invalidation alerts, either increase the frequency of the snapshots, or change the snapshot reserve space size
Partitions on USB devices must be either FAT32; NTFS (Read-Only supported); Ext2 or Ext3
Snapshot (pg 2 of 2)

53. Frontview (Volumes) USB Storage
When the USB Flash device option is selected, if a USB Flash device is connected to the ReadyNAS the USB Flash device will have it’s entire contents automatically copied to the default selected share.

54. Frontview (Shares) Options Shares options consist of: Share Listing
Add Shares

55. Frontview (Shares) Share Listing
Note: Quota settings are in MB (not GB)
Note: The File Protocol icons are color coded for permission level (see Users Manual for full description)

56. Frontview (Shares) Add Shares
In User and Domain security modes, the Add Share tab only consists of fields for the share name and description
User and Domain screen

57. Frontview (Printers) USB Printers Printers options consist of:
USB Printer Settings
The ReadyNAS supports standard IPP over HTTP printing.
If using OSX, the simplest way to use IPP printing is to use Bonjour to discover and setup print queue

58. Frontview (Backup) Options Backup options consist of: Backup Jobs
Add New Backup Job

59. Frontview (Backup) Backup Jobs
Any backup jobs that have been scheduled through the internal backup tool will be listed
The backup button on the front of the unit can be assigned to automatically run a specific backup job(s)
Example: NV+

60. Frontview (Backup) Add new Backup Job (pg 1 of 2)
Note: The specific source and destination type must be selected
Note: There is no “browse” button when setting the source and destination. The specific path for source and destination must be entered

61. Frontview (Backup) Add new Backup Job (pg 2 of 2)
The backup scheduler is designed to do incremental backups. You will need to set when to do full backups.

62. Frontview (System) Options System options consist of: Clock Alerts
Performance
Language
Update
Power Management
Shutdown

63. Frontview (System) Clock
The default NTP servers can be changed to servers closer to your locale.
Select Current Time option is only available when you deselect the Synchronize clock selection

64. Frontview (System) Alerts (pg 1 of 4) Contacts
You can specify up to 3 addresses where system alerts will be sent

65. Frontview (System) Alerts (pg 2 of 4) Settings
All Alerts in grey are mandatory alerts which cannot be deselected
In Other Alerts, the Power-off NAS when… selections will perform a graceful shutdown of the ReadyNAS

66. Frontview (System) Alerts (pg 3 of 4) SNMP
Used with SNMP management systems such as HP Openview
Trap Destination is where all alert messages will be sent

67. Frontview (System) Alerts (pg 4 of 4) SMTP
The ReadyNAS has a built-in message Transfer Agent (MTA) to send alerts. If a firewall or ISP blocks MTA messages, specify a valid SMTP server to send the messages through

68. Frontview (System) Performance
If Disable Journaling is checked unexpected power failures will cause a long file system check on reboot.
It is always recommended to put the ReadyNAS on a UPS

69. Frontview (System) Languages
Currently the ReadyNAS supports 18 different language settings

70. Frontview (System) Update Remote
The update process only updates the firmware image, but doesn’t modify the data volume
Note: It is always a good idea to backup your data before updating firmware (just in case)

71. Frontview (System) Update Local
Note: The update process will take several minutes: DO NOT click on the browser refresh button during the update.

72. Frontview (System) Update Settings
If the Automatically check for updates option is the only one checked, an will be sent whenever a new firmware is available
If Download updates automatically is checked, the update image will be downloaded and an will be sent notifying you to reboot the NAS to perform the update.
Settings

73. Frontview (System) Update Factory defaults
NOTE: Resetting to Factory Default will erase everything! (data shares, volumes, user and group accounts, and configuration info) There is no way to recover after you confirm this command.

74. Frontview (System) Power management
Enabling disk spin-down will “disable” journaling. Make sure to use a UPS if this is selected

75. Frontview (System) Shutdown
When performing a volume scan or a quota check these can take several minutes to several hours to complete

76. Frontview (Status)
Options
Status options consist of:
Health
Logs

77. Frontview (Status) Health
The Health page displays the disk, fan, power, temperature, and UPS status
Hard drive Smart logs can be viewed by clicking on the “SMART+” selection next to the drive

78. Frontview (Status) Logs
Management tasks are listed in the status log with a timestamp
Logs are available in case of problems that require technical support
The Download All Logs button is an alternative to the Send All Logs in case the ReadyNAS has problems sending s

79. Questions ?