Iomega Px4-400d User manual

px4-400d Network Storage

with LifeLine 4.1

User Guide

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CONTENTS

Setting up Your px4-400d Network Storage 1

Setup Overview 2

About the px4-400d Device Components 3

Front Panel 3

Drive Bay Access 4

Rear Panel 4

Default Settings 5

Connecting the px4-400d to Your Network 6

Check Package Contents 6

Connecting the px4-400d 6

Safety Information 8

Accessing Your Device If It's Not Discovered 9

Direct Access Using the Device IP Address or Model Name 9

Discovery Using LenovoEMC Storage Manager 9

Discovering the px4-400d Using Your Computer OS 9

Setting Up Favorite Features 11

Setting Up Additional Features 12

Device Setup 13

Device Configuration Options 15

Network Settings 16

Manually Configuring Network Settings 17

Bonding NICs 18

VLAN Settings 19

Adding NICs to Your px4-400d Network Storage 20

Naming Your px4-400d Network Storage 21

Configuring Your px4-400d Network Storage to Use Active Directory 22

Enabling Active Directory Trusted Domains 23

Customizing Access to Features on Your px4-400d Network Storage 24

Enabling the Display of Features 24

Enabling Access Permissions to Features 24

Non-Administrator User Log In 25

Obtaining Alerts About Your px4-400d Network Storage 26

Tracing Events on Your px4-400d Network Storage 27

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Downloading the complete event log file 27

Obtaining System Status for Your px4-400d Network Storage 28

Space Usage 28

Control Panel 28

Device Information 28

Using Your px4-400d Network Storage in Various Time Zones 30

Setting the Display Language for Your px4-400d Network Storage 31

Printing Documents 32

Securing Your px4-400d Network Storage and Contents 33

How Do I Secure My px4-400d Network Storage? 34

Security Settings 35

Users and Groups 36

Users and Groups Overview 37

Users 37

Groups 37

How Access Rights Are Granted Using Groups in Workgroup Mode 37

Adding Users 38

Managing Users 39

Changing User Information 39

Changing User Access Permissions 40

Setting Quotas 40

Deleting Users 40

Adding Groups 41

Managing Groups 42

Removing a User from the Group 42

Changing Group Access Permissions 42

Deleting Groups 43

Using Active Directory Domain 44

Active Directory Users and Groups Overview 45

Managing Active Directory Users and Groups 46

Importing Users and Groups from Active Directory 46

Synchronizing with the Active Directory Controller 46

Changing Access Permissions 47

Setting Quotas 47

Deleting an Active Directory User or Group 47

Managing Your px4-400d Network Storage with Local and Active Directory Users 48

Enabling Active Directory after Creating Users in Workgroup Mode 48

Logging in to Your px4-400d 48

Creating Local Users and Groups in Active Directory Mode 48

Creating Share Permissions for AD Users and Local Users 49

Switching to Workgroup Mode from Active Directory 49

Sharing Files 50

Sharing Overview 51

Interfaces for Sharing 51

Shares 52

What are Shares and How Do I Organize Content with Them? 52

Adding Shares 53

Managing Shares 54

Deleting Shares 56

Using Protocols to Share Files 57

What Are Protocols and How Do I Use Them to Share Files? 57

AFP File Sharing for Macs 57

Bluetooth File Sharing 57

FTP File Sharing 58

TFTP 58

NFS File Sharing 58

rsync: Synchronizing Files with Another Storage Device or Other Computers 59

Monitoring Your Device with an SNMP Management Tool 60

Managing File Sharing with Web Access (http/https) 61

WebDAV: Managing Files Using HTTP or HTTPS 61

Windows DFS: Creating a Distributed Windows File System 61

Windows File Sharing 62

Sharing Content through the Home Page 63

Sharing Your Content with the World 63

Adding a Custom Home Page 63

Automatically Sending Content to Multiple People at Once 65

How to Set Up an Email Distribution Active Folder 65

Sharing Content Using Social Media: Overview 66

Managing Your Content 67

Transferring Content to and from Your px4-400d Network Storage with Copy Jobs 68

Copy Jobs Limitations 68

Getting Content from a USB External Storage Device 69

Safely removing external storage 69

One-touch Transferring of Content from a USB Device 70

Setting QuikTransfer 70

Drive Management 71

Managing Drives 72

Write Caching 72

Global Drive Management Settings 72

Storage Pool Information 73

Drive Status 73

Adding New Drives to Your px4-400d Network Storage 74

Storage Pool Management 76

Understanding How Your Content Is Stored 77

Storage Pools 77

Volumes 77

Adding and Managing Storage Pools 78

Adding a Data Storage Pool 78

Improving Performance with a Cache Storage Pool 80

Creating a Cache Storage Pool 80

Assigning a Cache Pool to a Volume 81

Volumes 82

Snapshots 82

Exposing/Unexposing the Snapshot 83

Restoring a Snapshot 83

Deleting a Snapshot 83

Displaying Shares in the Snapshot 83

Make the Snapshot Read-only 83

Changing Expose Mode 83

Adding and Managing Volumes 84

Deleting a Storage Pool 86

Changing RAID Protection Types 87

iSCSI: Creating IP-Based Storage Area Networks (SAN) 88

iSCSI Overview 89

Adding iSCSI Drives 90

Enabling iSCSI Drives 90

Connecting to iSCSI Drives 90

Managing iSCSI Drives 91

Adding CHAP User Access to an iSCSI Drive 91

Deleting iSCSI Drives 92

Backing up and Restoring Your Content 93

Backup and Restore Overview 94

Backup of Data through RAID Protection 94

Backing up to and Restoring from Your px4-400d Network Storage 95

Backing up Macs with Time Machine 95

One-touch Transferring of Content from a USB Device 95

Copy Jobs Overview 96

Backing up Your px4-400d Network Storage 97

Copy Jobs 97

From: Settings 98

To: Settings 99

Setting a Schedule 99

Registering with Avamar for Backup and Restore 101

Backing up with Amazon S3 102

Restoring Files with Amazon S3 102

Backing up with LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 103

Restoring Files with Personal Cloud 103

Personal Cloud: Accessing Your LenovoEMC Personal Cloud From Anywhere in the

World 104

What Is LenovoEMC Personal Cloud ? 105

LenovoEMC Personal Cloud Key Terms 105

Is My Content Secure? 106

Creating a LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 107

Configuring Router Port Forwarding for Personal Cloud 108

Router Port Forwarding 108

Configuring Your LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 109

Enabling Internet Access to the px4-400d 109

Changing Personal Cloud Settings 109

Inviting People onto Your LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 110

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Joining a Trusted Device to LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 111

Managing Trusted Devices on a Personal Cloud 112

Disconnecting Trusted Devices 112

Deleting Trusted Devices 112

Using Copy Jobs with a LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 113

Disabling or Deleting Your LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 114

Accessing Content Using Your LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 115

Informing Users What to Do with LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 116

Sharing Content Using Social Media 117

Sharing Content Using Social Media: Overview 118

Facebook 119

Flickr 120

YouTube 121

Share Content through LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 122

Media Management 123

Media Management Overview 124

Scanning for Media Content 124

Media Services Capabilities and Limitations 125

Sharing Media Content over the Internet 126

Enabling Internet Access from the Media Server Page 126

Media Aggregation 127

Enabling Media Aggregation 127

Social Media Sharing 128

Streaming Music, Movies, and Pictures 129

Example: Setting up iTunes 129

Example: Setting up Xbox 360 129

Photos 130

Photos Overview 130

Streaming Pictures 130

Creating a Slideshow on the Device Home Page 130

Automatically Resizing Your Photos 130

Getting Pictures from Your Camera 131

Music 132

Music Overview 132

Streaming Music 132

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Videos 133

Video Capabilities Overview 133

Streaming Movies 133

Adding Applications to Your px4-400d Network Storage 134

Application Overview 135

Application Installation 136

Application Manager 137

Starting or stopping an application 137

Adding applications 137

Removing applications 137

Software Updates 138

Auto-update process: installing a device software update 138

Manual update process: installing a device software update 138

Backing up and Recovering Your px4-400d Network Storage Settings 140

Backing Up Your px4-400d Network Storage Settings 141

Backing up Device Configuration 141

Restoring a Configuration Backup 141

Hardware Management 142

Energy Saving 143

Power Down Drives 143

Brightness 143

Wake On LAN 143

Creating a Power Schedule 143

Factory Reset 144

UPS Management 145

Troubleshooting Routers 146

Enabling the DMZ 146

Configuring Port Forwarding on Double NAT Networks 147

Bridging the Secondary Router 147

Bridging the Primary Router 147

Additional Support 149

How to Get Help 150

Support 151

Legal 152

Open Source 153

Warranty Information 154

Limited Warranty Notice 154

Regulatory Information 155

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Statement 155

Canadian Verification 155

European Union - Compliance to the Electromagnetic Compatibility Directive 156

Important WEEE Information 156

European Union RoHS 156

India RoHS 156

California Perchlorate Information 157

Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) Cable and Cord Notice 157

Recycling and environmental information 157

Export classification notice 157

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