Seagate NAS OS 4 Reviewers Guide: NAS / NAS Pro / Business Storage Rackmounts

Seagate NAS OS 4 Reviewers Guide: NAS / NAS Pro / Business Storage Rackmounts

Seagate NAS OS 4 Reviewers Guide 2 Purpose of this guide Experience the most common use cases for the product, learn about the innovative design elements and navigate the new Seagate NAS OS 4 interface. Connecting to your Seagate NAS To access your Seagate NAS you have two options. Option 1: Access the NAS through your web browser with Discovery.seagate.com. NOTE: This option only works the very first time you try to connect. Once you ve connected to the NAS you will have to use the Seagate Network Assistant or the dedicated NAS url to connect. Option 2: You can access the NAS through Seagate Network Assistant or the dedicated Seagate NAS url (See Quick Start Guide for specific link to your NAS). To wake a Seagate NAS that is turned off, but is still connected to a live Ethernet port on your router, right-click on the Seagate Network Assistant icon in your taskbar and select Wake Up a Device. Type in the MAC address for the device you want to wake up. The MAC address can be found on the back of the NAS/NAS Pro products. The software will remember the MAC address for the next time you want to wake the device. Simply use the drop-down menu and click the Wake Up button for future use.

Seagate NAS OS 4 Reviewers Guide 3 What s New with NAS OS 4? Redesigned Home Screen Once logged-in you ll find a completely redesigned home screen that allows you to access the various functions of the NAS. Notifications in the top right alert you when settings change, and activities are completed, like backup jobs. From the Home screen you will also be able to switch between Seagate NAS s, put the current NAS to sleep, turn off and even restart. By clicking on the title labeled Home you can access all the other managers without having to go back to the Home Screen. If you re in the Backup Manager, you can use the same button to access all of the other various functions

Seagate NAS OS 4 Reviewers Guide 4 Device Manager: Overview The Device Manager has been updated to with an interactive dashboard simplifying the steps needed to add users, turn on settings and view the overall health of the NAS. By clicking on various services like Health, the Device Manager will route you specifically to the Monitoring tab for a more detailed view of the NAS s current state. Device Manager: Settings Attention Reviewers: Product reviewers, please use this page (Device Manager: Settings Tab) to check for the latest Firmware before proceeding with your review.

Seagate NAS OS 4 Reviewers Guide 5 Device Manager: Services By Clicking on the Services tab you can enable key software features and protocols to make you Seagate NAS compatible with the devices on your network and to customize the NAS for your particular needs. Highlighting your mouse over an item gives you an option to enable/disable the service and edit its advanced settings. A green light means the service is running properly. A yellow light means the service is enabled and waiting for another device to be found (ex. Network printer). A red light indicates that there is an error running the service (ex. Firewall blocking a port). Device Manager: Maintenance Monitoring The Monitoring tab gives you everything you need to keep up to speed with your NAS s health. Live CPU, RAM, Network and Fan gauges display exactly the speed, percentage of usage, speed and RPM s(fan only) of the NAS. Below the gauges, each running process is shown with a display of the CPU and RAM usage being used to run the process.

Seagate NAS OS 4 Reviewers Guide 6 Under the Drive tab, the drive status is displayed. Click on each drive to view the health, model, firmware, capacity and temperature of each drive. For larger systems like the NAS Pro 6-Bay, this page comes in extremely handy when trying to access information of a particular drive. Device Manager: Storage Overview For detailed information on your volumes, RAID configurations, available space and total storage, you ll want to use the Storage Overview tab. Here, you get a list of every volume located on the NAS internal and external volumes connected through the USB port.

Seagate NAS OS 4 Reviewers Guide 7 When you select a volume in the Storage Overview tab, a specific page for that volume will appear. This page allows you to view detailed capacity information, available space and used space. As well, it shows the drive status and a graphic illustrating your RAID configuration and the available space vs. protected space. Device Manager: Storage Overview Adding Volumes From the Storage Overview Tab, click on Volume 1 Here you can add a volume by clicking the Manage button. By default, the drives should be configured with SimplyRAID technology and have 1 drive failure protection. SimplyRAID is a software RAID system that makes it easy to configure your drives based on your goals such as maximum capacity or drive failure protection. SimplyRAID supports volumes with mixed capacity drives, upgrading to larger drives without having to move data from the volume and offers a performance benefit over other supported RAID options (with the exception of RAID 0). Another benefit of SimplyRAID is that you can begin storing and accessing data immediately after configuring a volume, compared to traditional RAID configuration which needs to go through a lengthy build process before the volume is usable. Note: full file

Seagate NAS OS 4 Reviewers Guide 8 transfer performance will be available once the SimplyRAID volume has completed its Synchronization process. On the bottom of the page, you have the option to add an iscsi target. There is an option for Multiple sessions, select this option only if your iscsi target will be managed within a SAN cluster environment. The SAN cluster allows multiple iscsi initiators to access the iscsi target at once. Device Manager: Power In the Device Manager click on Power. When Power saving mode is enabled, you can set a schedule for when the NAS turns on and off to save power during non-business hours. At any time, the NAS can be turned on manually with the power button or by using the remote wake feature mentioned above in the Seagate Network Assistant section. Note: to use the remote wake function while outside of the LAN, you will need to configure port forwarding on your router or VPN into your office network

Seagate NAS OS 4 Reviewers Guide 9 New to NAS OS 4 is Network UPS. Now you can get more out of your Network UPS and save your storage by connecting your NAS to an existing Network UPS. Backup Manager From the Home Screen click on the Backup Manager icon to create and schedule various backup job. You can also restore from an existing backup here. When you click on Add backup, you have three options, Local backup, Network backup and Restore.

Seagate NAS OS 4 Reviewers Guide 10 Under Network Backup there are multiple options. You can backup your NAS to another Seagate NAS OS device, Cloud Backup to Amazon S3 and/or Box, and another NAS or server that s Rsync compatible. App Manager With NAS OS 4 comes the App Manager. The App Manager allows you to download both Seagate apps and 3 rd party apps letting you to do more with your Seagate NAS. By default you will land on the My Apps tab, which is empty because there are no apps loaded on the NAS.

Seagate NAS OS 4 Reviewers Guide 11 To view all of the available apps in the App Manager click on the All tab under the Categories title. Once an app is selected you will have the option to install the app. From there you ll be able to enable/disable and even uninstall. File Browser In the Home screen click on the icon labeled File Browser. This will open up a web-based file browser, which can be used to access files in and out of the office directly from the NAS. The file browser gives you the option to upload and download files and view select file types in the web browser. Popular video and audio formats stream directly from the browser, photos can be viewed in a slideshow and select photos can be edited with the built-in Pixlr image editor. Pixlr image editor

Seagate NAS OS 4 Reviewers Guide 12 Device Manager: Network Remote Access In Device Manager click on the Network box. From there select the Remote access tab. Here you can setup a custom url with the mynas.seagate extension or your own custom url through DynDNS. This mode of remote access gives you full access to the NAS OS 4 interface with file access through the File Browser. Device Manager: Services Sdrive (Remote Access) Back inside the Device Manager, click on Services and scroll down and click on the row titled S:drive. If not enabled, click on the Edit button that appears when hovering over the status icon. Once enabled, click on the learn more link to download the Sdrive desktop app for PC or Mac. After installing the Sdrive application, create a new account or login with an existing account.

Seagate NAS OS 4 Reviewers Guide 13 Then navigate to Devices on the left side nav. If you are on the same local network (wired or wireless) as the Seagate NAS, the device will be displayed in the window. Select a device and login with your Seagate NAS credentials. This will link your Seagate NAS account with your Sdrive account, enabling remote access and syncing capabilities to the Seagate NAS. Sdrive: Desktop App After the Sdrive service is enabled on your NAS device and the desktop app for PC or Mac is installed, you can use the desktop app to view, download, upload and sync files stored on your NAS and manage remote access privileges. Sdrive will appear in your Windows Explorer or Mac Finder just like any other external drive making access to your NAS seamless even when you re out of the office. Begin by starting the Sdrive desktop app. The app will ask you to create a login and password. After a user is created and you login you will see all of the Seagate NAS devices available on the network. Note: You must be on the same network add these devices to Sdrive.

Seagate NAS OS 4 Reviewers Guide 14 You can also access Sdrive in the task bar. All of the available Seagate NAS devices will appear in the drop-down menu. Once your device is added, you can access its contents from anywhere, including outside of your local network. Sdrive: Mobile App The Sdrive mobile app can be installed from the Apple app store or Google Play store. Once installed, you can login with your Sdrive account to access files and manage your NAS device remotely.

Seagate NAS OS 4 Reviewers Guide 15 From the home screen of the app, tap on the Devices icon to view the NAS devices accessible by your Sdrive account. Tap on a device to see the shared folders you have access to. Before tapping on one of the shared folders, you also have the option of tapping on the wrench icon (ios devices only) on the bottom center of the screen. This will take you to the NAS OS 4 management interface. Once a file is selected you have the option of downloading the file, playing the file(movie or song), or sharing the file. Opening other document types gives you similar options at the bottom of the screen. If you open items such as music or videos, note that the entire file must first be downloaded and decrypted before it can be opened. Although this is less convenient than streaming a file, it offers enhanced security for business users.

Seagate NAS OS 4 Reviewers Guide 16 Additional features to note: Download Manager Easily download files directly to your NAS without having to drag and drop from your desktop. You can limit the amount of downloads at one time and/or the amount of bandwidth you want to use. Virtualization through iscsi Built-in support for iscsi enables maximum performance and delivers additional storage for virtualized appliances on the network. SNMP Support Manage your NAS through popular Network Management Systems via SNMP support. Network Recycle Bin The Network Recycle Bin adds another layer of protection of data loss in case a file or folder is deleted by accident. Join a Domain Import users and groups from your Active Directory server for ease of setup and user account maintenance.