Lenovo Px12-400r User manual

px12-400r Network Storage

with LifeLine 4.1

User Guide

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CONTENTS

Setting up Your px12-400r Network Storage 1

Setup Overview 2

About the px12-400r Device Components 3

Front Panel 3

Drive Bay Detail 4

Rear Panel 5

Default Settings 5

Connecting the px12-400r to Your Network 6

Check Package Contents 6

Connecting the px12-400r 6

Important Rackmount Instructions 7

Safety Information 9

Accessing Your Device If It's Not Discovered 10

Direct Access Using the Device IP Address or Model Name 10

Discovery Using LenovoEMC Storage Manager 10

Discovering the px12-400r Using Your Computer OS 10

Setting Up Favorite Features 12

Setting Up Additional Features 13

Device Setup 14

Device Configuration Options 15

Network Settings 16

Manually Configuring Network Settings 17

Bonding NICs 18

VLAN Settings 19

Adding NICs to Your px12-400r Network Storage 20

Naming Your px12-400r Network Storage 22

Configuring Your px12-400r Network Storage to Use Active Directory 23

Enabling Active Directory Trusted Domains 24

Customizing Access to Features on Your px12-400r Network Storage 25

Enabling the Display of Features 25

Enabling Access Permissions to Features 25

Non-Administrator User Log In 26

Obtaining Alerts About Your px12-400r Network Storage 27

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Tracing Events on Your px12-400r Network Storage 28

Downloading the complete event log file 28

Obtaining System Status for Your px12-400r Network Storage 29

Space Usage 29

Control Panel 29

Device Information 29

Using Your px12-400r Network Storage in Various Time Zones 31

Setting the Display Language for Your px12-400r Network Storage 32

Printing Documents 33

Securing Your px12-400r Network Storage and Contents 34

How Do I Secure My px12-400r Network Storage? 35

Security Settings 36

Users and Groups 37

Users and Groups Overview 38

Users 38

Groups 38

How Access Rights Are Granted Using Groups in Workgroup Mode 38

Adding Users 39

Managing Users 40

Changing User Information 40

Changing User Access Permissions 41

Setting Quotas 41

Deleting Users 41

Adding Groups 42

Managing Groups 43

Removing a User from the Group 43

Changing Group Access Permissions 43

Deleting Groups 44

Using Active Directory Domain 45

Active Directory Users and Groups Overview 46

Managing Active Directory Users and Groups 47

Importing Users and Groups from Active Directory 47

Synchronizing with the Active Directory Controller 47

Changing Access Permissions 48

Setting Quotas 48

Deleting an Active Directory User or Group 48

Managing Your px12-400r Network Storage with Local and Active Directory Users 49

Enabling Active Directory after Creating Users in Workgroup Mode 49

Logging in to Your px12-400r 49

Creating Local Users and Groups in Active Directory Mode 49

Creating Share Permissions for AD Users and Local Users 50

Switching to Workgroup Mode from Active Directory 50

Sharing Files 51

Sharing Overview 52

Interfaces for Sharing 52

Shares 53

What are Shares and How Do I Organize Content with Them? 53

Adding Shares 54

Managing Shares 55

Deleting Shares 57

Using Protocols to Share Files 58

What Are Protocols and How Do I Use Them to Share Files? 58

AFP File Sharing for Macs 58

Bluetooth File Sharing 58

FTP File Sharing 59

TFTP 59

NFS File Sharing 59

rsync: Synchronizing Files with Another Storage Device or Other Computers 60

Monitoring Your Device with an SNMP Management Tool 61

Managing File Sharing with Web Access (http/https) 62

WebDAV: Managing Files Using HTTP or HTTPS 62

Windows DFS: Creating a Distributed Windows File System 62

Windows File Sharing 63

Sharing Content through the Home Page 64

Sharing Your Content with the World 64

Adding a Custom Home Page 64

Automatically Sending Content to Multiple People at Once 66

How to Set Up an Email Distribution Active Folder 66

Sharing Content Using Social Media: Overview 67

Managing Your Content 68

Transferring Content to and from Your px12-400r Network Storage with Copy Jobs 69

Copy Jobs Limitations 69

Getting Content from a USB External Storage Device 70

Safely removing external storage 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 px12-400r 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 px12-400r Network Storage 95

Backing up Macs with Time Machine 95

Copy Jobs Overview 95

Backing up Your px12-400r Network Storage 96

Copy Jobs 96

From: Settings 97

To: Settings 98

Setting a Schedule 98

Registering with Avamar for Backup and Restore 100

Backing up with Amazon S3 101

Restoring Files with Amazon S3 101

Backing up with LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 102

Restoring Files with Personal Cloud 102

Remote Access: Accessing Your px12-400r Network Storage From Anywhere in the

World 103

Remote Access Overview 104

Enabling Remote Access 105

Basic Option: Completing the Enable Remote Access Process 105

Premium Option: Completing the Enable Remote Access Process 105

Accessing Your px12-400r Network Storage Remotely 107

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

World 108

What Is LenovoEMC Personal Cloud ? 109

LenovoEMC Personal Cloud Key Terms 109

Is My Content Secure? 110

Creating a LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 111

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Configuring Router Port Forwarding for Personal Cloud 112

Router Port Forwarding 112

Configuring Your LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 113

Enabling Internet Access to the px12-400r 113

Changing Personal Cloud Settings 113

Inviting People onto Your LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 114

Joining a Trusted Device to LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 115

Managing Trusted Devices on a Personal Cloud 116

Disconnecting Trusted Devices 116

Deleting Trusted Devices 116

Using Copy Jobs with a LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 117

Disabling or Deleting Your LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 118

Accessing Content Using Your LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 119

Informing Users What to Do with LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 120

Sharing Content Using Social Media 121

Sharing Content Using Social Media: Overview 122

Facebook 123

Flickr 124

YouTube 125

Share Content through LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 126

Media Management 127

Media Management Overview 128

Scanning for Media Content 128

Media Services Capabilities and Limitations 129

Sharing Media Content over the Internet 130

Enabling Internet Access from the Media Server Page 130

Media Aggregation 131

Enabling Media Aggregation 131

Social Media Sharing 132

Streaming Music, Movies, and Pictures 133

Example: Setting up iTunes 133

Example: Setting up Xbox 360 133

Photos 134

Photos Overview 134

Streaming Pictures 134

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Creating a Slideshow on the Device Home Page 134

Automatically Resizing Your Photos 134

Getting Pictures from Your Camera 135

Music 136

Music Overview 136

Streaming Music 136

Videos 137

Video Capabilities Overview 137

Streaming Movies 137

Adding Applications to Your px12-400r Network Storage 138

Application Overview 139

Application Installation 140

Application Manager 141

Starting or stopping an application 141

Adding applications 141

Removing applications 141

Software Updates 142

Auto-update process: installing a device software update 142

Manual update process: installing a device software update 142

Backing up and Recovering Your px12-400r Network Storage Settings 144

Backing Up Your px12-400r Network Storage Settings 145

Backing up Device Configuration 145

Restoring a Configuration Backup 145

Hardware Management 146

Energy Saving 147

Power Down Drives 147

Wake On LAN 147

Creating a Power Schedule 147

Factory Reset 148

UPS Management 149

Troubleshooting Routers 150

Enabling the DMZ 150

Configuring Port Forwarding on Double NAT Networks 151

Bridging the Secondary Router 151

Bridging the Primary Router 151

Additional Support 153

How to Get Help 154

Support 155

Legal 156

Open Source 157

Warranty Information 158

Limited Warranty Notice 158

Limited Warranty for Iomega Products 158

Regulatory Information 159

Federal Communication Commission Interference Statement 159

Canadian Verification 159

European Union conformity 159

Important WEEE Information 160

European Union RoHS 160

India RoHS 160

California Perchlorate Information 160

Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) Cable and Cord Notice 160

Recycling and environmental information 161

Export classification notice 161

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