Seagate NAS OS 4 Reviewers Guide: NAS / NAS Pro

 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 3rd 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.