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  • Page 1 ADMINISTRATION GUIDE Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System...
  • Page 2 © 2008 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. OL-17960-02...

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Chapter 3: Adding the NSS to your Network Physical Interfaces Virtual Interfaces Viewing the Network IP Settings. Configuring the Network Link IP Resetting the DHCP Lease on a Link Viewing VLANs Configured on the NSS Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 4 Adding a Disk Drive to an Array Deleting an Array Migrating a RAID Array to another Storage Device Virtualizing Storage within your Network Currently Exported Storage Exporting Storage to your Network Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 5 About the Volume Quota Page Creating Volume Quota for a User or Group Setting up the Grace Period for a Volume Quota Changing a Volume Quota for a User or Group Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 6 Rebooting or Shutting Down the NSS Upgrading the NSS Firmware Restoring the Factory Default Configuration Managing the NSS Configuration Saving the Current Configuration Restoring a Configuration File Deleting a Configuration File Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 7 Chapter A: Troubleshooting NSS LEDs Power Button LED System LED LAN LED Hard Disk Drive LEDs ACT LED ERR LED Reset Button Using the NSS3000 LCD Panel Repairing a Degraded Array Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 8 Handling an Unexpected (Unclean) Shutdown Boosting the Performance of NFS Transfers Appendix B: Environmental Specifications Appendix C: Support Contacts Appendix D: Additional Information Regulatory Compliance and Safety Information Warranty End User License Agreement (EULA) Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 9: Chapter 1: Introduction

    Introduction Thank you for choosing the Cisco Small Business Network Storage System (NSS). The NSS is a Network Attached Storage (NAS) unit that appears as a native file server for the various clients within your network, including Windows, Apple Macintosh, UNIX, and Linux platforms. The biggest benefit to your users is that they can now access data that might be stored across different physical platforms as simply as if it were on their own computers.

  • Page 10: Using The Help

    Click it to display help on the specific configuration area. For example, if the current configuration topic is about the status of your system, click the Help button for information about the details that appear on the System Status page. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 11: Refreshing The Gui Pages

    After running the wizard you must map a network drive to the share on the PC running the camera utility and configure the camera utility to save the video to this mapped network drive. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 12: Approved Vendor List For Drives

    The RAID is built using the capacity of the smallest disk in the array. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 13: Chapter 2: Managing The System

    Status pages like the System Status page automatically refresh on a regular interval and are helpful for monitoring the progress of certain processes such as building a RAID. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 14: System Alerts

    • Volumes: The number of configured volumes. • Total Configured Capacity: The total aggregate size of all configured volumes. • Percent Used: The total amount of the configured capacity used. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 15: Network Status

    The Backup area displays the following: • Last Backup: The date and time of the last backup run. If a backup has never been run on the system, the word "never" appears. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 16: Power Status

    Firmware Version: The current version and date of the firmware installed on the NSS. • Uptime: The number of days the NSS has been running since it was last rebooted. • Last Boot: The date when the NSS was last rebooted. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 17: Viewing The Hardware Monitor

    If the temperature of the system or disks is over or under the ideal temperature, the temperature is color-coded red. When the temperature is within the normal range the color-coding is green. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 18: Viewing And Managing The System Logs

    This information helps you detect unauthorized attempts to access the NSS configuration interface. • CIFS Sharing: A time-stamped event log of events initiated by users accessing shares through CIFS. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 19 Remote Log Host fields. (If you set up two remote hosts, the log file is sent to both servers.) Note that the remote server must be running a syslog server. Click Update. STEP 3 Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 20: Configuring The System For Ups Support

    Battery Status: The percentage of power still available is also listed and is color-coded according to the amount of battery remaining. To enable the UPS: From the Manager Menu, click System Power. STEP 1 Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 21: Nss-Supported Ups Product Families

    The NSS supports these UPS product families: • APC Back-UPS Pro USB • APC Back-UPS RS USB • APC Back-UPS USB • APC Back-UPS LS USB • APC Back-UPS ES/CyberFort 350 • APC Smart-UPS USB Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 22: Chapter 3: Adding The Nss To Your Network

    Link: The number of the physical link attached to the NSS. The number appears as 1. • Status: The status of the physical link. • Dropped Pkts: The total number of IP packets dropped on the VLAN interface since the last boot. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 23: Virtual Interfaces

    (0 being best effort data and 7 being network critical data). • Label: The text description defined for the VLAN. • Rx Pkts: The total number of IP packets received on the VLAN interface since the last boot. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 24: Viewing The Network Ip Settings

    DHCP: The IP configuration was assigned by a DHCP server. Or, if the interface was configured to use DHCP for IP configuration but no DHCP server was found, the IP address was assigned by the AutoIP protocol. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 25: Configuring The Network Link Ip

    From the Manager Menu, click Network STEP 1 The Network IP page appears listing each interface. Click Edit on the row of the interface you want to configure. STEP 2 Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 26: Resetting The Dhcp Lease On A Link

    The Network IP page appears listing each physical and virtual interface. Click Edit on the row of the link IP you want to reset. STEP 2 The Network Link Configuration page appears. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 27: Viewing Vlans Configured On The Nss

    To configure a port-based VLAN, configure the switch to assign the port to which the NSS is connected to the desired VLAN. In this case, no NSS configuration changes are required. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 28 Label: A text description for the VLAN (for example, "Data," "Voice," "Video," and so on). This description is used solely as a reference within the NSS interface and does not affect its operation. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 29: Allowing A Vlan Access To The Nss

    Valid options range from 0 to 7 (as defined by the IEEE 802. 1 p standard). VLAN Ethernet frames contain a three-bit priority tag ranging from 0 to 7 (where 0 is best effort and 7 is network-critical traffic). Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 30 Obtain IP Address Automatically: Use a DHCP server to retrieve the IP address, netmask address, and gateway address for the VLAN. • Use the Following IP address: Enter the IP configuration details manually. Click Update. STEP 7 Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 31: Changing A Vlan Configuration

    To edit a VLAN configuration: From the Manager Menu, click Network VLAN. STEP 1 The VLAN Configuration page appears. Click Edit for the VLAN you want to change. STEP 2 Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 32: Removing A Vlan's Access To The Nss

    VLAN only affects the VLAN’s ability to access the NSS. It does not impact the VLANs operation within your network. To disconnect a VLAN’s access to the NSS: From the Manager Menu, click Network VLAN. STEP 1 Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 33: Configuring The Nss Network Identification

    (from the Manager Menu, click Access and then Options). If you make a change to the range after the you join the domain, you must rejoin the NSS to the domain after the change is made. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 34 To assign the hostname for the NSS using the DHCP server, select Assign STEP 3 automatically via DHCP. If the DHCP server is not available or if it is not configured Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 35 Domain Controller: Enter the hostname or IP address of the domain controller. Username: Enter the username of an account that has administrator privileges for this domain. Note: The username cannot contain the "%" character. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 36 If you are joined to a domain and make changes to the fields on this page, NOTE make sure that you re-enter the domain password as the NSS automatically rejoins the domain when you click Update. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 37: Configuring Dns Or Wins For Name Resolution

    • Assign automatically via DHCP: Select this to assign the IP address for the DNS server using the DHCP server. If the DHCP server cannot be found or Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 38: Joining The Nss To A Network Information System (Nis) Domain

    ID range on the User/Groups Settings page. This minimizes the risk of collisions of user or group IDs within your network. To configure the NSS for NIS: From the Manager Menu, click Network NIS. STEP 1 Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 39 The Bind State field shows the current bind status of the NSS. Options include: "Invalid" (the NSS is not joined to an NIS domain), or "Enabled" (the NSS is successfully joined to a NIS domain). Click Update. STEP 5 Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 40: Editing Access Control Lists (Acls) From Windows Explorer: Restrictions

    The diagnostics test is only supported when the NSS is connected to a Gigabit NOTE Ethernet switch. To test the physical link from the Configuration Interface: From the Manager Menu, click Network Diagnostics. STEP 1 The Network Diagnostics page appears. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 41: Running Cable Diagnostics From The Lcd

    Short: If the pair has a short, the message appears as "pair a-b short@ Xm" (where "a" and "b" are the numbers of the pair, "X" is the location in the cable where the short was found, and "m" stands for metres). Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 42: Configuring The Network Ports

    NSS may connect to that service. This is a shortcut to manually defining an equivalent network filter. To set up the network services: From the Manager Menu, click Network Ports. STEP 1 Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 43: Setting Up The Ethernet Frame Size & Advertising Modes

    Setting up the Ethernet Frame Size & Advertising Modes The Network Properties page lets you set the Ethernet frame size and determine how you want to advertise the presence of the NSS within your network. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 44 • Advertise using UPnP: The NSS is advertised within the network using UPnP. • Advertise using Zeroconf/Bonjour: The NSS is advertised within the network using Zeroconf/Bonjour. Click Update. STEP 5 Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 45: Chapter 4: Configuring Your Storage

    The LCD on the front of the chassis also lets you view the state of the RAID arrays and volumes. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 46: Storage Status Tables

    Offline: The disk drive is failed. • Action: There are available action buttons associated with each installed disk drive: Get Details: View the current, detailed S.M.A.R.T. report for the disk drive. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 47: Raid Arrays Table

    Storage Options page. Volumes associated with a stopped array are unmounted and unusable. To start the RAID array, click the Start button. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 48: Volumes Table

    %Used: The percentage of space used on the USB flash device. • Action: The Unmount button unmounts the USB flash device so that it can be safely removed from the AUX-1 port. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 49: Managing Raid Arrays

    About the RAID Arrays Page The RAID Arrays page is where you manage the local RAID and JBOD arrays. To display the RAID Arrays page, from the Manager Menu, click Storage RAID. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 50: Choosing A Raid Array Level

    • Total capacity: m • Advantages: Increased reliability. The array can sustain the loss of all but one disk without any data loss. Each mirror disk added to the array Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 51 Minimum Number of Disks: 4 • Total capacity: m * (n-1) • Advantages: The hot spare is available in case of a failure of one of the disks in the array. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 52: Creating A Raid Array

    For example, if you install two, 250 GB disks and one 500 GB disk in a RAID0 array, the total capacity is only 750 GB. From the Manager Menu, click Storage RAID. STEP 1 Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 53 RAID level. You can monitor the progress of the RAID build from the Storage Status page. When the build finishes, the array appears in the RAID Arrays table. The disks used in the array are no longer available for creating additional arrays. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 54: Adding A Disk Drive To An Array

    To add a disk to an array: If not already installed in the chassis, insert the disk into the NSS. STEP 1 From the Manager Menu, click Storage RAID. STEP 2 The RAID page appears. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 55: Deleting An Array

    (including the volumes, shares, and quotas). If you delete an array that contains the volume that is used as the location of your users’ Home Directories, you must assign a new volume as the Home Directory location. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 56: Migrating A Raid Array To Another Storage Device

    RAID array from the NSS3000 or to another network NSS3000, make sure that you power down the RAID array (versus hot-plugging it) before migrating it into the new system. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 57: Virtualizing Storage Within Your Network

    Storage table appears. It shows the details for any exported disks or arrays: • Device: The name of the exported disk or array. • Size: The size of the exported storage. • Exported As: The serial number of the exported NSS. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 58: Exporting Storage To Your Network

    Log into the configuration interface for the device from which you are exporting STEP 1 storage. From the Manager Menu, click Storage Virtualization STEP 2 The Storage Virtualization page appears. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 59: Creating Virtualized Storage

    If you affect the physical disk drives (e.g., shut down the power to the unit), this affects any logical storage built using those disk drives. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 60 JBOD. Select JBOD as the RAID level. STEP 4 Click Add. STEP 5 The JBOD appears in the RAID Arrays listing. You can now create volumes from the virtualized JBOD. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 61: Unexporting Storage

    STEP 4 The disk drive(s) or array no longer appears in the Currently Exported Storage list. It now appears in the Export a device list and is again available for use. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 62: Volume Management

    % Used: The amount of space, as a percentage, that is currently used. • Crypto: Whether the volume is encrypted or not. Note that file transfer performance to encrypted volumes is generally lower than to non- encrypted volumes. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 63: Creating A Volume

    From the New Volume area, set up the following fields: STEP 2 • Array: Click the drop-down menu to select the array on which you want to create the volume. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 64 You can then restore the configuration, and then use that password to unlock the volume. See ”Restoring a Configuration File” on page Re-enter the password in the Confirm Password field. STEP 5 Click Add. STEP 6 Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 65: Expanding A Volume

    To increase the size of a volume: From the Manager Menu, click Storage Volumes. STEP 1 The Volumes page appears. Click Edit for the volume you want to expand. STEP 2 Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 66 If you selected "Grow By", the new number is added to the existing volume size. If you selected "Resulting Size", the new number becomes the total size for the volume. Click OK. STEP 5 Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 67: Deleting A Volume

    To delete a volume: From the Manager Menu, click Storage Volumes. STEP 1 The Storage Volumes page appears. From the Volumes area, click Delete for the volume you want to delete. STEP 2 Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 68: Volume Encryption Overview

    (you cannot create or use shares stored on the locked volume). This provides an extra layer of security against the theft of data. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 69: Unlocking A Locked Volume

    When an encrypted volume is locked, either automatically as a result of the NSS being rebooted or manually locked through the configuration interface, you must unlock it before it can be used for tasks such as creating shares or quotas. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 70 To unlock a volume: From the Manager Menu, click Storage Volumes. STEP 1 The Volumes page appears. Click Unlock for the volume you want to unlock. STEP 2 The Unlock Volume page appears. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 71: Changing The Password For An Encrypted Volume

    ”Restoring a Configuration File” on page To change the password on an existing encrypted volume: From the Manager Menu, click Storage Volumes. STEP 1 Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 72 Changing the Password for an Encrypted Volume The Volumes page appears. Click Edit for the volume you want to change. STEP 2 The Edit Volume page appears. In Current Password field, enter the password. STEP 3 Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 73: Storage Options

    Degraded Mode Grace Period: Set the period of time after which the system automatically shuts down degraded arrays. You can manually restart a RAID array that has been automatically stopped by the degraded Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 74 A system limited to local disks lets you only build up to two, two-disk RAID arrays, but have no spares. If you make changes to any of the storage options, click Update. NOTE Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 75: Chapter 5: Setting Up End-User Access

    Status pages automatically refresh on a regular interval and are very helpful for monitoring the progress of certain processes such as the current end-user connections to the NSS. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 76: Cisco Small Business Nss3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide

    "ea" to display any list items that contain "ea" such as "Sean" or "BillyJean".) To clear the filter, delete the contents of the User List Filter field, and then click Filter. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 77: Creating A User Profile

    In the Username field, type the username. The name must be made up of STEP 3 alphanumeric characters (that is, a-z, 0-9), any case, to a maximum of 32 characters. This field is required. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 78 To record the user’s email address, enter it in the Email Address field. This field is STEP 8 optional. Click OK to create the user and exit the New User page. Click Apply to create the STEP 9 user and then add another new user. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 79: Editing A User Profile

    Filter field, and then clicking Filter. (For example, enter "ea" to display any list items that contain "ea" such as "Sean" or "BillyJean".) The end user’s profile appears in the Edit User page. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 80: Integrating Users From An Ads, Ntv4, Or Nis Domain

    Set up your User and Group ID ranges before you join the NSS to an ADS, NTv4, or NOTE NIS domain. After you join the NSS to a domain, you do not make any changes to the ranges as this might lead to an ID collision. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 81: Logging Into The Nss As A Local User

    From the Manager Menu, click Access Users. STEP 1 The Configured Users page appears. Click the username and then click Delete. To delete multiple users, use the STEP 2 following mouse-key combinations: Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 82: Working With Groups

    Group membership, other than the primary group, is defined in either the Add Group or Edit Group page and is used only to control access to shares and files. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 83 You cannot grant security privileges to a group for a CIFS share through an ACL. NOTE To create a group: From the Manager Menu, click Access Groups. STEP 1 The Configured Groups page appears. Click Add. STEP 2 The New Group page appears. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 84: Changing The Users Assigned To A Group

    From the Manager Menu, click Access Groups. STEP 1 The Configured Groups page appears. From the list of configured groups, select the group that you want to change. STEP 2 Click Edit. STEP 3 Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 85: Integrating Groups From An Active Directory, Ntv4, Or Nis Domain

    Set up your User and Group ID ranges before you join the NSS to an ADS, NTv4, or NOTE NIS domain. After you join the NSS to a domain, do not make changes to the range as this might lead to an ID collision. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 86: Deleting A Group

    Ctrl-click: To select a non-contiguous set of groups that you want to delete, hold down the Ctrl key, and then click each group from the list. Click Delete to delete the highlighted groups. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 87: Managing Volume Quotas

    NSS, the previous primary group continues to be the group charged until the user’s connection is closed. The new primary group becomes the group charged only after the connection is re-opened. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 88: About The Volume Quota Page

    To give certain users or groups assigned to a volume full access to the space on the volume, do not create a quota for that user or group. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 89 To create a quota for a user or group: From the Manager Menu, click Access Quota. STEP 1 The Filesystem Quota page appears. Click Create Quota. STEP 2 The New Filesystem Quota page appears. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 90 Click Update. STEP 7 Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 91: Setting Up The Grace Period For A Volume Quota

    Warn for <time period> before denying access field. Enter the number in the first part of the field, and the time unit in the second part of the field. For example, to Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 92: Changing A Volume Quota For A User Or Group

    From the Manager Menu, click Access Quota. STEP 1 The Filesystem Quota page appears. Click Edit for the user or group for which you want to change the quota. STEP 2 Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 93: Clearing A Quota

    (other than the actual unused storage space on the volume). To clear a quota for a user or group: From the Manager Menu, click Access Quota. STEP 1 Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 94: Network Filters Overview

    Defining network filters lets you specify which network hosts have access to the NSS through the various supported protocols. To view the network filters: From the Manager Menu, click Access Network. STEP 1 Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 95: Defining The Default Network Policy

    The default policy can be defined to either accept or reject such traffic. To define the default network policy: From the Manager Menu, click Access Network. STEP 1 Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 96 FTP connection type on the host to "active". (If you set the connection type to "passive" you can connect to the NSS but are not able to list, transfer the data, and so on.) Click Change Policy. STEP 3 Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 97: Creating A Network Filter

    From the New Network Access Filter table, type the IP/MAC address to which STEP 2 you are applying the filter, in the IP/MAC Address field. You can also enter addresses for the following: Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 98: Available Access Filters

    When you configure network filters, determine which protocols can or cannot access the NSS. To display the list of available filters, click the drop-down arrow next to the Filter field on the Network Filters page. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 99 • Reject NFS: Do not allow NFS filesharing access. The NSS informs the system initiating the connection about the denial of service. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 100: Deleting A Network Filter

    Drop NFS: Do not allow NFS filesharing access. The NSS does not inform the system initiating the connection about the denial of service. Deleting a Network Filter To delete a network filter: From the Manager Menu, click Access Network. STEP 1 Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 101: Configuring The User/Group Ranges And Home Directory Location27

    NIS, NTv4, or ADS domain as you should not change the range after the domain has been joined. In addition to setting the ID ranges, you also need to define which volume you are using to store your users’ home directories. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 102 Home Directory Location field. The hostname must start with a letter (it can be any character after that) and be a minimum of one character (no maximum). Click Update. STEP 4 Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 103: Chapter 6: Managing The Shares

    There is no limit to the number of users that you can assign to an individual group. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 104: Creating A Share

    The New Share page appears. In the Share field, enter a name for the share. STEP 3 From the Location field, select the volume on which you want to configure STEP 4 the share. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 105 For files created through CIFS, the group is automatically assigned as the owner’s default group. This group cannot be edited at a later time. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 106 NSS must also be configured to allow NFS access.) • FTP: Enable FTP access to the share. (To allow FTP access to the share, the NSS must also be configured to allow FTP access.) Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 107: Editing An Existing Share

    There is no limit to the number of users that you can assign to an individual group. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 108 Select this field: By selecting this field, users with write permissions can rename or delete files or folders within the assigned share even though they are not the owners of the files or folders. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 109 CIFS: Enable CIFS access the share. • NFS: Enable NFS access the share. (To allow NFS access to the share, the NSS must also be configured to allow NFS access.) Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 110 Read-Only Groups: Groups that appear in this list have read-only access to the share. • Read-Write Groups: Groups that appear in this list have full read-write access to the share. Click OK. STEP 10 Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 111: Adding A Dfs Shared Folder

    ”Creating a Share” on page From the Manager Menu, click Shares Shares. STEP 2 The File Shares page appears. Click Edit for the share to which you want to add a folder. STEP 3 Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 112 Managing the Shares Adding a DFS Shared Folder The Edit Share page appears. Click Add Shared Folder. STEP 4 Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 113: Restrictions Using Microsoft Dfs From The Nss

    Otherwise, an authentication error occurs and the user may not be able to re-authenticate with different user credentials. As a Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 114: Setting Up Cifs Access

    To set up the idle disconnect time for a CIFS connection to the NSS: From the Manager Menu, click Shares CIFS Setup. STEP 1 Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 115: Setting Up Network Filesystem (Nfs) Access

    The NSS only supports NFSv3. NOTE To set up global NFS access to the NSS: From the Manager Menu, click Shares NFS Setup. STEP 1 Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 116 NSS suffer an unexpected power loss or if the NFS client crashes. Click Update. STEP 5 Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 117: Configuring The Nss For Ftp Access

    NSS storage through FTP regardless of their per-share settings. To set up the FTP protocol: From the Manager Menu, click Shares FTP Setup. STEP 1 Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 118 If you allow anonymous access, select the volume that you want to set as the STEP 6 anonymous root directory from the Anonymous Root Directory drop-down menu. To allow anonymous users to have write access to the NSS, click Anonymous STEP 7 Upload. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 119 STEP 14 required. This field determines if users who have write permission to a share can delete or rename files or folders within that share that they do not own. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 120 The default is 4000. Ensure your router is configured to forward the entire configured Passive Mode FTP port range to the NSS. Click Update. STEP 17 Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 121: Creating Or Running A Backup Of A Share

    The backup can be saved to a remote CIFS server or to another share on the NSS. To set up a scheduled backup: From the Manager Menu, click Shares Backup. STEP 1 Click Schedule Backup. STEP 2 Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 122 Local File System: Select the share on which you want to store the backup. To create a compressed backup, check Compress backup image. STEP 5 Compressed backup images are smaller than non-compressed images but take longer to create. Click Next. STEP 6 Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 123 To set up a backup that backs up just the changes made to the share since the last STEP 9 backup, click Incremental Backups. Leave it unchecked to take a full backup of the share each time the backup is run. Click OK. STEP 10 Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 124: Initiating A Backup For A Share

    Shares to Backup list. (The single angled bracket "<" or ">" moves the selection in the direction of the bracket. The double angled bracket "<<" or ">>" moves the entire list in the direction of the bracket.) Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 125: Deleting Backup Images

    NSS at one time, you can set the connection profile to allow a greater number of simultaneous FTP connections and less simultaneous CIFS connections. The number of connections possible is different between the different NSS models. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 126 NSS. • Advanced - Network Video Recorder: Select this option to allow up to 16 FTP and 8 CIFS simultaneous connections to the NSS. Click Update. STEP 3 Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 127: Chapter 7: Managing The Nss

    NSS” on page • Upgrading the firmware. See ”Upgrading the NSS Firmware” on page • Restoring configuration settings to factory defaults. See ”Restoring the Factory Default Configuration” on page Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 128: Rebooting Or Shutting Down The Nss

    Make sure that you close the Web browser when the system is rebooting. If you refresh the configuration interface Web page during the reboot process, the system inadvertently initiates another reboot. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 129: Upgrading The Nss Firmware

    The firmware must be newer than the version currently installed. The system does not support downgrades. • The firmware must be installed in a specific order if upgrading within a virtualized setup. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 130 Click Upgrade Firmware to initiate the upgrade process. During the upgrade, the STEP 5 Power LED alternates from yellow to green. You can view the status of the firmware upgrade through the LCD on the front of the chassis. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 131: Restoring The Factory Default Configuration

    When you reset the configuration through the configuration interface, the RAID, volume, share, and quota configuration is maintained. All other configuration details are restored to factory defaults. Click Restore All Settings to Factory Defaults. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 132 VLANs: All configured VLANs are deleted. ADS Server: ADS server settings are cleared. DNS: DNS settings are cleared. Administrator Password: admin Network Filters: cleared Network Default Policy: Accept All MTU Size: 1500 Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 133: Managing The Nss Configuration

    (To unmount the USB flash device, display the Storage Status page and then click Unmount.) To display the Configuration Manager page, from the Manager Menu, click Admin Configuration. The Configuration Manager page appears. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 134: Saving The Current Configuration

    If you are saving the configuration file to a USB flash device, insert a USB flash STEP 1 device into the AUX-1 port on the NSS chassis. From the Manager Menu, click Admin Configuration. STEP 2 The Configuration Manager page appears. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 135 Removing the USB flash device in a mounted state can cause file or filesystem NOTE corruption. When the AUX-1 LED on the chassis is off, you can safely remove the unmounted STEP 8 USB flash device from the AUX-1 port. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 136: Restoring A Configuration File

    USB flash device into the AUX-1 port. From the Stored Configuration Location field, select the location of the saved STEP 3 configuration file. Click Update. STEP 4 Click Restore. STEP 5 Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 137 After a few minutes the system reboots. Check the Power LED on the front of the chassis. The Power LED goes to a solid STEP 9 green when the reboot completes. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 138 When the AUX-1 LED on the front of the chassis is off, you can safely remove the STEP 13 unmounted USB flash device from the AUX-1 port. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 139: Deleting A Configuration File

    USB flash device into the AUX-1 port on the front of the NSS chassis. Click Restore. STEP 3 A list of saved configuration files appear. Click Delete for each configuration file you want to remove. STEP 4 Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 140: Configuring The Timing Settings

    The NTP Configuration page appears. To use an NTP server to maintain the NSS time, click Automatically (via NTP). To STEP 2 assign the time manually, skip to step 4. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 141: Configuring The Email Alerts For A Recipient

    (such as a loss of power). You can customize the user’s email profile to suit the user’s specific "need-to-know" requirements. To configure the NSS for email alerts: From the Manager Menu, click Admin Email Alerts. STEP 1 Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 142 UPS. • Monitor: Check this option to notify the user when there is an event tracked through the hardware monitor (i.e., voltages, fans, and temperatures) that falls out of specification. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 143: Changing The Email Alerts For A Recipient

    Click Delete for the applicable email recipient. STEP 2 Recreate the email recipient. STEP 3 Click Add. Click Test All to send a test notification for all checked options to the STEP 4 defined recipients. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 144: Deleting An Email Alert Recipient Profile

    To delete the email alerts: From the Manager Menu, click Admin Email Alerts. STEP 1 The Email Alerts page appears. Click Delete for the applicable email recipient. STEP 2 Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 145: Configuring Snmp Alerts

    Enter the IP address or hostname for the management station to which you want to STEP 4 send the alerts. Select the checkbox for each type of trap sink for which you want to send alerts to STEP 5 the SNMP server. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 146 To send a test alert for each of the selected conditions to all configured trapsinks, STEP 8 click Test All. To delete an existing SNMP Trapsink, click Delete. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 147: Changing The Administrator Password

    Re-enter the new password in the Confirm Password field. STEP 4 Click Update. STEP 5 The new password takes effect immediately. The next configuration interface page that you access prompts you for the new password. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 148: Chapter 8: End User Access

    "\storage" to the address. • Map the NSS to a network drive. To access the hidden storage folder, make sure that you add "\storage" to the address. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 149: Windows Users: Accessing The Nss Storage Using Cifs/Smb

    Click OK. STEP 3 The Windows Explorer window opens with a directory listing of the available shares. Depending on your share privileges, you can begin using the NSS storage. STEP 4 Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 150: Windows Users: Accessing The Nss Storage Through Ftp

    Click the "+" sign to save the NSS address to the Favorite Servers list so that the next time you log in you just need to select the address from the list. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 151: Mac Users: Accessing Storage Through Ftp

    When your FTP client has logged in, a list of accessible shares appears as individual directories. Depending on your share privileges, you can begin using the NSS storage. STEP 5 Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 152: Unix/Linux Users: Accessing Storage Through Nfs

    NSS storage using NFS or FTP. Note that when using FTP to access the NSS storage, users cannot rename folders. To rename a folder, use CIFS or NFS if enabled on the share. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 153 Explicit FTPS. For more help using the FTP client, refer to the FTP client documentation. Enter your username and password when prompted by the FTP client. STEP 4 Depending on your share privileges, you can begin using the NSS storage. STEP 5 Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 154: Chapter 9: Glossary Of Storage-Related Terms And Acronyms

    Webcams. There is also a Bonjour plug-in for Internet Explorer which is used to discover Bonjour-enabled network printers and devices. (It was originally named Rendezvous.) Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 155 Usage or File quotas are considered Hard quotas, 4) Soft quota is a way, set by the administrator, to define a warning level that alerts users that they are nearing their specified hard quota limit. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 156 Linux operating system. Unlike its predecessor, ext2, the journaling support alleviates lengthy filesystem checks (fsck) at bootup after a sudden system crash, reset, or power loss. It is the default filesystem for many popular Linux distributions. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 157 FTP over TLS. The client connects to the server port 21 and starts an unencrypted FTP session as normal, but requests that TLS security be used and performs the appropriate handshake before sending any sensitive data. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 158 Ethernet frame header of a data packet (three bits of which assign up to eight priority or QoS levels and 12 bits identify up to 4096 VLANs). Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 159 Internet without knowing the specific domain where they reside. A single LDAP directory can be mirrored on multiple servers that can be periodically synchronized. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 160 NAS (Network Attached Storage): A data storage device on a computer network to provide a centralized repository of data that can be shared and accessed by other end-users or workgroups on the network. The Cisco Small Business NSS products are NAS devices.
  • Page 161 Currently, the NSS offers the choice of five different RAID levels (including JBOD) with two options for adding a hot spare to an existing RAID level. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 162 SFTP: Secure File Transfer Protocol. A network protocol designed by the IETF to provide secure file transfer and manipulation facilities over the secure shell (SSH) protocol. This protocol is NOT supported by the NSS. (It does support FTPS.) Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 163 Snapshot: A copy of a set of files, volumes, or directories as they were at a particular point in time. The Cisco NSS uses snapshots to back up the shares located on a volume in such a way that end users can recover their own files without having to ask the administrator to restore a backup.
  • Page 164 Small UPS systems provide power for a few minutes; enough to power down the computer in an orderly manner, while larger systems have enough battery for several hours. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 165 Virtualization: The creation of a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, such as an operating system, a server, a storage device or network resources. The Cisco NSS refers to virtualization as a way of aggregating storage between devices. Virtualized storage occurs when storage is exported to the network as a disk drive or an array and is then imported by a master NSS.
  • Page 166 Zeroconf can also manually assign an IP address and alternate host name to a device, as required. Once assigned, Zeroconf lets users and applications readily discover the service it offers. Apple’s Bonjour is the major implementation of Zeroconf. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 167: Chapter A: Troubleshooting

    Alternating Yellow & Green: The firmware update is currently in progress. • Off: The NSS is either disconnected from a power source or has finished the shutdown process and can be safely disconnected from a power source. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 168: System Led

    The NSS is running on UPS due to a mains power failure. • Solid Red: Indicates a critical system failure. The system could not boot due to a corrupted firmware image. • Off: There are no system-related problems Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 169: Lan Led

    Blinking Green: The disk drive is configured and a RAID array is currently rebuilding to the disk drive. • Off: The disk drive is not configured (not part of a RAID or JBOD array and not exported). Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 170: Err Led

    The network settings are restored to the factory defaults. • To reset the NSS Press and hold the Reset button while the system is running until the Power LED blinks green. Release the Reset button. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 171: Using The Nss3000 Lcd Panel

    • System Alerts: Displays the system alerts (two per page) in order from most recent to the oldest. Fordetailed information about the system alerts, ”System Alerts” on page Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 172 For example, 21:45, Wed, Dec 12, 2008. • Shutdown Screen: During the shutdown of the NSS, the LCD panel displays the progress of the shutdown. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 173: Repairing A Degraded Array

    To add a disk to a degraded array: If you are replacing a disk, remove the failed drive from the NSS and install the STEP 1 replacement disk. From the Manager Menu, click Storage RAID. STEP 2 Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 174 In the RAID Arrays table, click Edit for the applicable RAID array. STEP 3 The RAID Configuration page appears. Available disk drives appear in the listing. Click Add to add the disk drive to STEP 4 the array. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 175: Working With A Failed Array

    If a copy of the firmware is saved to a disk on the NSS, make sure that you copied it to another location (such as onto a PC). You cannot install firmware that is saved to a disk on the NSS. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 176: Free Bound Virtualized Storage When The Master System Fails

    Unexport the bound storage system (in our example, System A). STEP 1 Re-export the storage system. STEP 2 The storage system is now available to be used by another system. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 177: All Cifs Connections Were Unexpectedly Ended

    NSS is rebooted or is manually locked through the configuration interface. As long as the volume is locked, you cannot use the volume to create shares or quotas (you can however, set up the Home Directory). Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 178: Cannot Access The Nss Through Ftp

    From the Manager Menu, click Access Network. STEP 7 Make sure there are no filters set up to drop or reject FTP access for the STEP 8 applicable IP or MAC addresses. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 179: Cannot Rename A Folder Through Ftp

    If the power to the NSS is unexpectedly disrupted, causing the NSS to do an unclean shutdown, the system settings (including time) might be altered. The Administrator is notified of the unclean shutdown in three possible ways: Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 180: Boosting The Performance Of Nfs Transfers

    For example: mount -v -t nfs 192. 1 68. 1 . 1 :/mnt/RAIDA/vol 1 /share1 /mnt/client -o nfsvers=3,rsize=32768,wsize=32768 where: • 192. 1 68. 1 . 1 is the IP address of the NSS system • /mnt/RAIDA/vol 1 /share1 is the path to the share Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...
  • Page 181 Troubleshooting Boosting the Performance of NFS Transfers • /mnt/client is the mount point on the client • The size of the read and write buffers is 32 KB. Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 182: Appendix B: Environmental Specifications

    41 to 104 F(5 to 40 ° ° Storage Temp -4 to 158 F(-20 to 70 Operating Humidity 10 to 90%, Relative non-condensing Storage Humidity 10 to 95%, Relative non-condensing Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 183: Appendix C: Support Contacts

    Support Contacts Support contact information for this product is available on Cisco.com at this location: www.cisco.com/go/smallbiz Cisco Small Business NSS3000 Series Network Storage System Administration Guide...

  • Page 184: Appendix D: Additional Information

    Regulatory Compliance and Safety Information for this product is available on Cisco.com at this location: www.cisco.com/go/smallbiz Warranty Warranty information that applies to this product is available on Cisco.com at this location: www.cisco.com/go/smallbiz End User License Agreement (EULA) Licensing information that applies to this product is available on Cisco.com at this location: www.cisco.com/go/smallbiz...

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