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1. StorlQ NAS Server StorlQ System v 2 3 0 User Manual Author Emmanuel FLORAC Ref NAS MAN Version 2 0 Last updated 9 1 08 Contacts tel 33 1 78 94 84 00 support intellique com info Intellique com Intellique com copyright Intellique 2006 2007 2008 Reproduction and distribution of this document is allowed without any modification Partial reproduction is allowed for citation needs with proper reference to the source INTELLIQUE STORIQ NASSTART are registered trademarks of Intellique SARL Linux is a Linus Torvalds registered trademark Microsoft Microsoft Windows ActiveDirectory are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation Apple Macintosh Mac OS AppleTalk AppleShare are registered trademarks of Apple Corporation Novell eDirectory NetWare are registered trademarks of Novell Corporation UNIX is a registered trademark of the Open Group POSIX is a registered trademark of the IEEE Table of Contents 1 Introduction 1 1 Presentation 1 2 functionality 1 3 installation 1 4 administration interface 2 Configuration 2 1 disk drives configuration 2 2 Network configuration 2 3 Alarm management 3 File Sharing 3 1 Windows File Sharing 3 2 NFS file sharing Unix 3 3 Mac OS File sharing Netatalk 3 4 iSCSI disk sharing 4 Administration and maintenance 4 1 Restarting services 4 2 CD and DVD burning 5 Frequently Aske2. https 4165 intellique com 10000 raid storniq index cq VS Gl create U Delete Rebuild Unit Rescan Hardware E lo jware 9650SE 16ML c6 PEELEEELEEEELEELELELEILLIIIIL u0 6519 19 GB RAMOS PCEEECECEEEECECEPECCPPEEEE pO 93151 GB wr CPEEPEEEEELEELIIILIIILIIIIL pl 931 51 GB wy Seeecsseusessccusecscesscess p2 931 51 GB Termin d165 intellique com 10000 Q m o i i Use Create Unit to build a new RAID volume The software will allow you to choose among available controllers disks and partitions and the possible RAID levels for the selected devices minimum 2 disks or partitions to build a RAID O or 1 volume minimum 3 disks or partitions to build a RAID 5 volume minimum 4 disks or partitions to build a RAID 6 volume Use Delete Unit to remove an existing RAID volume You won t be able to delete a volume which is in use Use Rebuild Unit to force rebuild a RAID 1 4 5 or 6 degraded volume This functionality 2 2 should be used only if your RAID controller doesn t support automatic rebuild most shipped from 2005 upwards do or if you just added a new drive to the array Use Rescan hardware if you plugged a new drive and it s not displayed to make it available Network configuration Two graphic tools are provided to configure networking the netcardcontig application available from the start menu or the Network Configuration tool the W
3. module is described in the StorlQ System Advanced Administration manual To gain access to the Simple Windows File Sharing log in as storiq or admin and click the corresponding icon You ll see the following display 6 Mozilla Firefox x ichier Edition Affichage Historique Marque pages ScrapBook Outils Aide gt 1e amp https d165 intellique com 10000 samba easy index cgi A trie Cec Samba Windows File Sharing mnt raid Read write to all known users View all connections Global Configuration Windows Networking Bind to Domain Click this button to restart the running Samba servers on your system This will force the current configuration to be applied This will also disconnect any Restart Samba Servers connections to the server so if you do not want the current configuration to be applied immediately you should just wait 1 minute until Samba reloads the configuration automatically Stop Samba Servers Click this button to shut down the running Samba servers on your system All currently logged in users will be forcibly disconnected Termin d165 intellique com 10000 o Windows Networking First of all it s necessary to configure the global Windows networking settings to match the actual configuration of your existing network Click the Windows Networking icon You ll get the following display to enter your Windows network parameters Mozill
4. actions in the new runlevel to be started A LDAP Client Click on this button to immediately reboot the system All currently logged in _Reboot System users will be disconnected and all services will be re started a nc Click on this button to immediately shutdown the system All services will be wm and ores Shutdown System stopped all users disconnected and the system powered off if your hardware supports it Read User Mail zi runlevels are the main operating modes of the system 0 shutdown single user mode For administration of maintenance multi user mode Not used multi user mode Not used multi user mode without graphical user interface multi user mode with graphical user interface O A UNS reboot Switching to runlevel O will power off the system Switching to runlevel 6 will reboot 4 2 CD and DVD burning You can burn CDs and DVDs directly from the web administration intertace triange inteliique com 10000 3 f a 6 Mozilla Firefox fichier dition Affichage Historique Marque pages ScrapBook Outils Aide https Ariangle intellique com 10000 burnerfindex cgi Module Confi CD Burner Burn Profiles No burn profiles are currently defined Add new profile of type Single 150 image ra Es ISO Filesystem Options Device Options Termin triange intellique com 10000 2 Tu1 Configuring the application The
5. application is set up for CD burning To burn DVDs instead enter module configuration and modify the following settings change CD burning command from cdredcord to dvdrecord Change ISO filesystem building command from mkisofs to growisofs Configuration For module CD Burner CD burning command fedrecora ee MP3 decoding command mpg123 SOX command for WAV and OGG sox decoding CD copying command fegrdao Temporary files directory Webmin s temp directory O Then follow on with device configuration click on CD burner device options select a CD burner from the list and the burning speed To use automatically the highest possible speed enable Other and enter 99 in the text box If the CD burner is connected to an ATA IDE bus enter dev ATA in the Extra cdrecord options field Device Options Olx O2x O4x O8x O16x O 32x O 48x O Other 99 Creating a Burn profile Next step consist in the creation of a burn profile You ll define what to burn either an existing ISO image some files and folders or sound files we won t cover this last case Each profile can be stored to be used later For instance you may create a directory called mnt raid cdburning and create a generic profile that will burn everything in this directory Then you ll simply add files to this folder when necessary and simply start burning CDs Burning
6. for a process according to several criteria Run allows you to start any command manually by name You may either wait for the command completion in which case its output will be displayed into the browser or run it in the background When clicking on a process PID you ll access the screen below which gives control to several parameters Fichier Edition Affichage Historique Marque pages ScrapBook Qutis Aide Fed nts triangle intetique com 10000 proc edit_proc cqi 3162 Help Process Information Process Information cs usr bin distccd pid file var run distccd pid log file var log distccd log daemon allow 127 0 0 Process ID 3162 Parent process lusr bin distced pid filew y Owner distccd CPU 0 0 Size 1900 kB Run time 00 00 00 Nice level a 7 _Change Real group nogroup Process group ID 2988 Group nogroup TTY None Started Jun14 Real user distccd Send Signal HUP hd Terminate wli Suspend Resume Fies and Connections re Return to process list Termine triangle intefique com 10000 amg Available commands are Send Signal Send any signal to the process Default is set to HUP which force a process to reload its contiguration Terminate ask a program to quit Kill force a program to quit Suspend pause program execution Resume resume execution of a paused program Files and Connections show a list of files and ports currently in use by the prog
7. glibe sh No zij O hait No z triangle intellique com 10000 aet iea Click on a service name to access and modify its parameter The screen below will be displayed o Webmin 1 390 on triangle Debian Linux 4 0 Mozilla Firefox x fichier dition Affichage Historique Marque pages ScrapBook Qutils Aide Ka https Ariangle intellique com 10000 Cr e i Edit Action Bootup and Shutdown AO Change Passwords Ory Disk Quotas t Disk and he Network Filesystems ato Name apache2 Action Script fe bin sh e apache2 This init d script is used to start apache2 id It basically just calls apache2ctl EWV env i LANG C PATH usr local bin usr bin ban ls 1 etc apache2 sites enabled wc l sed e s 69 0 amp amp echo You haven t enabled any sites yet so I m not starting apache2 amp amp echo To add and enable a host use addhost and enhost amp amp exit edit etc default apache2 to change this 22 AS nformation NO_START 0 A System iat if x usr sbin apache2 then HAVE_APACHE2 1 z a r S LDAP Client Start at boot time Yes O No Save Start Now Reload Now Show Status Stop Now Delete lt Return to bootup and shutdown actions m LDAP Users a and Groups Le triange intellique com 10000 a 1 seems bE This screen displays the startup script for the selected service to ed
8. system You can change the way the system identity them by editing the etc netatalk AppleVolume system file To edit this file from the web administration interface log in as admin or root click the Others tab File Manager icon Browse to the etc netatalk folder select the AppleVolume system file and click the Edit button Some files aren t available to MacOS 9 x and older clients Mac OS 9 x and older releases can t access files with name longer than 31 characters The StorlQ server doesn t appear in the Network Browser Mac OS 9 x and earlier or isn t visible in the Network window Mac OS X Verify on the Mac OS side that AppleShare over TCP IP is enabled You may also try to connect using the server IP address instead Verify that the client isn t in a different AppleShare Zone than the server Web and FTP sharing problems some big files can t be downloaded Some web or FTP applications Internet Explorer 5 x FTP EXE can t manage files bigger than 2 GB Use another application RAID problems A RAID volume is degraded but isn t rebuilding automatically Verify there s an available hot spare drive available in the array If there isn t add one or replace the failed drive and declare the new drive as a hot spare with either RAID GUI or the web administration RAID interface RAID volume rebuild fails The hot spa
9. this file lists the real file name and the ISO9660 file name limited to 8 3 characters It hasn t any actual use if you re using Joliet or RockRidge unless you want your CD to be usable on an old system like MS DOS Allow long filenames ISO9660 filenames are limited to 8 characters and an extension of 3 When selecting this option also select RockRidge or Joliet Include Macintosh CAP files Same thing as NetaTalk files above It has no use here because the StorlQ system doesn t use CAP Columbia AppleTalk Package We recommend that you select RockRidge Joliet and long filenames as default 5 Frequently Asked Questions Windows File sharing problems The system can t join or connect the ActiveDirectory Ifthe system clock is more than a couple of minutes away from the Active Directory Server clock the system won t be able to join the domain Correct the system clock from the administration interface log in as admin go to the system tab System time icon and correct the System time After you ve set up files of directory authorizations from Windows Explorer changes are discarded The Samba service isn t configured to use ACLs Access Control Lists or you re sharing a filesystem that doesn t support ACLs CD ROM FAT32 USB disk After you ve set up files of directory authorizations from Windows Explorer some authorizations differ from what you entered
10. NFS File Sharing problems Writing files is slower than using Windows File sharing Get sure in the share parameters that the Immediately sync all writes option is not selected When you remove a share stop the NFS file sharing or shut down the server some client machines don t respond anymore Default setting for NFS mounts is to be blocking To avoid blocking the client system modify the mount options For Linux clients add intr to the mount options Some clients system can t access some big files NFS v2 can t work with files bigger than 2GB Use NFS v3 is your system is able to manage it on Linux add ntsvers 3 to the mount options Client displays an error when mounting the share The StorlQ NFS server supports extended attributes and ACLs Access control lists Some other systems may not support them and display a message but it shouldn t hamper normal operation However avoid as much as possible mixing clients with and without support of extended file operations on the same share it may render some files unavailable to some systems or users or remove extended attributes from files in unpredictable ways AppleShare File sharing problems Some files appear of the wrong type in the Finder incorrect icon or opened with the wrong application If the file wasn t copied or created directly from a Macintosh its Type Creator attributes may be unknown to the StorlQ
11. Windows ACLs are quite different from POSIX ACLs used by StorlQ Linux Some combinations can be rendered only approximately Though logged on as Administrator the user can t modify authorizations on a file or directory The Administrator User doesn t exist on the StorlQ system However you can give him root level access by changing the Samba configuration file etc smb cont Log in to the administration interface as admin or root go to Servers Samba Windows File Sharing Inthe Global Configuration section click on Edit config file In the file global section add the following line winbind admin users lt domain name gt administrator save the file Some users can t connect to the StorlQ server though they see it in the Network Neighbourhood f your network is set up as a Domain or an Active Directory verify that the StorlQ server is a member of the Domain If the StorlQ server isn t a domain member restart Samba services from the web administration interface f you re using some other sharing mode log into the web interface as admin or root click on the server tab Samba Windows File Sharing Inthe Samba Users section click on Edit Samba users and passwords Get sure that the users you want to be able to connect to the server are listed You may eventually add or modify them too or redefine their passwords
12. a Firefox Exchier Edition Affichage Historique Marque pages t ScrapBook Qutils Ade https 4165 ntellque com 10000 samba easy conf_smb cgi Stor Qe C Windows Networking Options Security Modes OOOO Security Domain j Windows Networking Options Workgroup C Default M WORKGROUP Server description Default P h server Samba v Password server new folders inherit permission from parent v folder Yos No _Save Return to share list Termin d165 intellique com 10000 Q le I o i i First of all select the appropriate authentication policy accordingly to your network configuration Workgroup if you re using a peer to peer network without a master server Windows98 type choose Share level access rights are defined separately for every share or User level access is granted to local system users Don t forget to enter the local workgroup name you re actually using too You may enter here a description for your StorlQ server Access permissions inheritance ACLs Access Control Lists are described farther below Domain If you re using a Windows NT 4 Domain select Domain You ll then have to enter the Domain name in the Workgroup entry box and the Primary Domain Controller PDC address in the Password Server entry box to authenticate access You may enter here a description for your StorlQ server Access permissions inh
13. all Please provide the StorIQ serial number 1 4 administration interface The StorlQ system can be entirely managed through a web interface You can access it locally from the StorlQ session start the browser from the StorlQ Start menu or click on the following icon in the task bar Le From another machine on the network use http lt machine name gt 10000 or http lt IP address gt 10000 You ll get the following login prompt Mozilla Firefox Echier Edition Affichage Historique Marque pages ScrapBook Qutis Aide E amp https 165 ntelique com 10000 7 _ Are Google You must enter a username and password to login to the Webmin server on 4165 intel Lique coe Username StorlQ Password L Clear M Remember login permanently ee UT Em C You can use three different accounts to access the administration interface User Usage storiq Common tasks storage and raid management network configuration file sharing admin Advanced administration software upgrades hardware management other services root All parameters 2 Configuration 2 1 disk drives configuration Disks drives base configuration may vary accordingly to the number of drives and RAID controllers installed Disk volume partitioning is adapted to the configuration too but it may be changed as you need Here are the standard sh
14. an ISO image Simply name a profile and enter the path for the ISO image to burn in the text entry box or browse the system to the image with the button Profile name PT ISO image to write FC nn Get size from ISO file O Yes No Save and Bum Now Save and Test Burn Now Save Ask for confirmation before burning Burning files and directories Burning files and directories allows you to enter multiple source to copy to the CD Create Burn Profile Generate RockRidge unix extensions O Yes with sensible permissions O Yes No Generate Joliet O Yes No Allow long filenames Yes No Include CAP Macintosh files O Yes No Macintosh files Generate TRANS TBL file O Yes No CD volume ID _ Save and Burn Now Save and Test Burn Now Ask for confirmation before burning Return to profiles list After naming the profile choose which directories to burn by typing in their path on disk and the path you want them to have on the CD Select the appropriate burning options among the following RockRidge support Unix long filenames if you plan to use the CD or DVD on a Unix Linux Mac OS X system Joliet support Microsoft Windows long filenames Include Macintosh Netatalk files if your directory tree contains AppleTalk files AppleDB AppleDesktop AppleDouble and you plan to use this CD or DVD on a Macintosh computer Generate TRANS TBL file
15. d Questions 1 Introduction 1 1 presentation Welcomel This documentation will help you to install setup administrate and use your new NAS server StorlQ NAS StorlQ at its best StorlQ NAS servers come in several packages but be it a 120GB NasStart or a huge 60 TB rackable machine all share the same system software and functionality The Operating System is based upon Debian GNU Linux 4 0 we chose for its stability its security and efficiency Debian is used as a base for many other well known Linux distributions Ubuntu Knoppix Linspire 1 2 functionality StorlQ NAS systems support all network setups authentication directories and file sharing protocols Extensible and scalable modular and robust a StorlQ will never be obsolete Furthermore you may aggregate in different ways several StorlQ servers in clusters to manage them simultaneously provide high availability or aggregate several servers volumes into only one File sharing Windows file sharing SMBFS from 3 11 to NT4 and CIFS Windows 2000 and newer extended ACLs access control lists support Unix file sharing NFS versions 2 3 and 4 extended ACLs access control lists support Apple file sharing AppleShare protocol over AppleTalk and Appleshare IP support big volumes and files more than 2TB Web and FTP file sharing Apache web server 2 0 and ProFTPd Ftp server are installed Authentication and directories Act
16. e of a disk drive a RAID controller a CPU or an enclosure part fan failure temperature too high power supply failure Information level sends out a status report at defined times Webmin 1 390 on storiq Debian Linux 4 0 Mozilla Firefox Fichier Edition Affichage Historique Marque pages ScrapBook Outils Aide t x https d153 intellique com 10000 Alarm Configuration Mail alert configuration LDAP Client Ass AENA Specify the e mail recipient Group anaes ex Pseudo lt example intellique com gt Specify the e mail sender ao ex Pseudo lt example intellique com gt D Specify SMTP server Send i 26 a ee end a message a case of emergency yes no Processes Send an information message C yes no Activate sound alarm C yes no amp Scheduled Save and test Cancel E Storig P f RG dame b Configuration System Logs System Time Users and Groups RE Snmp Configuration Host manager UDP Port Community SNMP version OID version ica Send a message in case of emergency yes no zi ap https d153 intellique com 10000 storiq config i ns mi d153 intellique com 10000 1 Configuring Mail alert e mail recipient type in the the address you wish to send alerts to You may define several recipient separated with commas Type in a name f
17. eb administration interface The main network interface is shown as ethO The additional interfaces are thus eth eth2 etc Netcardcontig Select the network interface you wish to configure and type in the parameters as asked one by one The following information are mandatory IP address network mask and broadcast address These parameters are optional default router and name servers To define the broadcast address the usual rule of the thumb is to use the system IP address with 255 as the last value For example if the IP address is 172 0 0 land the network mask is 255 255 255 0 then the broadcast address is 172 0 0 255 5 Xdialog x Please enter IP Address for ethO 7 OK X Annuler Web Interface Network Configuration The tools displays four icons Network Interfaces is used to configure network addresses masks and broadcast address for every interface Routing and gateways allows you to define the default gateway optional Hostname and DNS Client allows you to define the name servers DNS and your machine name to resolve network names optional Host addresses allows you to edit the system list of hosts etc hosts Module Config Network Configuration El 5 E Network Interfaces Routing and Gateways Hostname and DNS Client Host Addresses Click this button to activate the current boot time interface and routing settings as they Apply Configuration normally w
18. eral Logical Units devices may be shared from a single target and used by many initiators Module Contig pom Target Configuration DA See GE tee O iqn 2001 04 com intellique storiq target target erv ia i aa a Service status not running Start service Creating a Logical Unit iSCSI device When creating an iSCSI Logical Unit you must define access mode block or file I O which file to use as a LUN which is either a system device for instance a disk like dev sda a partition like dev hda5 an LVM logical volume like dev vgO Iv either an ordinary disk file The iSCSI target use is exclusive the initiator will overwrite whatever previous content the LUN file may have Be careful You may define some optional parameters like the SCSI ID and serial number which are needed by some applications Last select the access mode with write cache Write Back with read cache only Write thru or read only Sloe Create a new Logical Volume Block device LUN device file jmnt raidiscsi01 img LUN Type SCSI ID SCSI Serial No Access mode Write Back Write thru Read only Apply Go back Creating a LUN file This function allows you to create a new empty file to use as a LUN device from your iSCSI target Module Config LUN file creation LUN file path rrr LUN size megabytes gt LUN Quick initialisation Apply Cho
19. eritance ACLs Access Control Lists are described farther below Active Directory If you re using an Active Directory network select the corresponding entry Mandatory parameters are the local domain or leaf name in the Workgroup entry the main Active Directory Server ADS name in the Password Server entry box and the Kerberos realm for authentication Root Domain Name You may enter here a description for your StorlQ server Access permissions inheritance ACLs Access Control Lists are described below Access permissions inheritance Access Control Lists Unless specified access rights work the POSIX way file permissions are defined at creation time from the user settings However you may enforce the Windows way by clicking the folder inherit permissions from parent radio button then new files will inherit permissions from their parent folder Binding to Domain When you configured and saved all your Windows network settings you must bind the system to domain i e get it enrolled into then domain by the domain controller or the master server Click the Bind to domain icon then enter the name and password for a user who is a member of the Domain Administrators group then push the Bind now button Sharing files and folders To share a folder click Create a new file share From top to bottom first select if you ll share an user home direct
20. etique_nfsAndex cg Arol c A Module Config Help NFS Exports Directory lExportedto gt gt O Vmntyraid mnt temp Everyone Add new export Click this button to apply the current file exports configuration This will make all the ly Changes Apply ges directories listed above available with the options spec Wish Waa Termin d165 intellique com 10000 Q G m I z i To modify a share click the share clients list in the Exported to column When you re done adding or moditying shares click Apply changes to use the new configuration Caution If the NFS services are down clicking Apply changes will start them up Sharing files and folders Click the Add a new share or an existing share to modify it and you ll obtain the following display Echier Edition Affichage Historique Marque pages ScrapBook Qutils Aide e t https 4165 intelique com 10000 intelique_nfs edit_export_light cgi new Q Ga tOr Help Create Export Mode Avanc Export details Directory to export sr Export to Everyone Host s C IPv4 Network Netmask F Yes No Yes No C Everyone Everyone except root C Nobody Create amp Return to exports lis Termine d165 intellique com 10000 Q le a o i i Advanced mode is described in the StorlQ System Advanced Administratio
21. interface module allows to start stop or restart the corresponding service However two special modules are available to manage services and running programs globally Running Processes available to all users and Bootup and Shutdown available to admin and root users Running Processes This module displays a list of all processes running on the system Processes which name is enclosed into square brackets are uninterruptible kernel level processes fichier Edition Affichage Historique Marque pages ScrapBook Qutis Aide era triangle intelique com 10000procfindex_ cpu cgi Module Config Help Running Processes Display PID User Memory CPU Search Run CPU load averages 9 07 1 mins 0 83 5 mins 0 00 15 mins CPU type Dual Core AMD Opteron tm Processor 2214 2194 MHz hiogsa froot justhibiwebmin 1 390 proc index_cpu cgi h root x init 4 k root pa kthreadd i root 3g migratiorvo rot P ksoftirqd 0 b froot A watchdog 0 b root Ra migration 1 k root p ksoftirqd 1 b root go watchdog 1 k root ga events 0 events 1 triangle irtelique com 10000 3 Fer Click on the Display line entries to change sorting behaviour PID ordered by PID number Process ID User ordered by the process owner user name Memory ordered by total memory usage CPU ordered by CPU usage Search allows you to search
22. ipping configurations RAID Disks RAID Partitioning Controllers level None 2 Oor1 1 system partition on each disk drive 1 system partition on each disk drive 1 RAID volume across the remaining space on both drives None 4 0 or 10 1 system partition on each disk drive 1 system partition on each disk drive 1 RAID volume across the remaining space on all drives 1 controller 2to16 5 6o0r10 1 hardware RAID volume containing 2 system partitions 1 swap partition and 1 data partition 2 controllers 15 to 40 50o0r60 1 hardware RAID volume containing 1 system or more partitions 1 swap partition and 1 data partition per controller 1 software RAID volume aggregating all data partitions from all controllers Every StorlQ system has at least two bootable system partitions at least one used as a backup of he main system Should a problem happen drive failure human error you may always boot up the server from the backup rescue system 2 1 1 RAID volumes administration Two graphical tools are available to you to manage RAID volumes the RAID GUI software to use from the local desktop you ll find it in the Start menu and the RAID controller management module available from the web administration interface usable remotely Both share the same functionalities 6 Mozila Firefox x Fichier Edition Affichage Historique Marque pages ScrapBook Outils Ade t
23. it don t modity this script unless you know exactly what you re doing You can also enable or disable the service at startup start stop or restart it or remove it altogether from the list You can control several services at once from the main screen check the boxes for several services then use the commands at the bottom of the screen to act on all of them at once Below the services list you ll find the system shutdown and restart commands too Webmin 1 390 on triangle Debian Linux 40 Mozilla Firefox chier Edition Affichage Historique Marque pages ScrapBook Outils Aide LJ EJ Bootup and O lumountts INO ce shutdown O lumountnfs sh No Also unmounts all virtual filesystems proc devfs O lumountroot No Mount the root filesystem read only x hange O lurandom No Save and restore random seed between restarts O ysftpd No Jetc init d vsftpd O webmin Yes Start stop Webmin y Disk Quotas O winbind No start Winbind daemon O x1l common No Create a new bootup and shutdown action Disk and DD ss Filesystems Disable Now and On Boot Start Selected Stop Selected Restart Selected Start On Boot Disable On Boot Start Now and On Boot RFP gt f sien Click this button to switch your system from the current runlevel to the Le D Change to runlevel 4 7 selected one This will cause all the actions in the current level to be stopped and then all the
24. iveDirectory Microsoft Windows Domain Novell NDS eDirectory Kerberos LDAP NIS NIS RAID and iSCSI iSCSI target server with thin provisioning iSCSI initiator client Software RAID 0 1 3 4 5 6 10 Hardware RAID 0 1 10 5 6 50 60 SATA SAS and SSD disk drives 1 3 installation The StorlQ servers come fully installed and configured However a system CD is provided which allows you to reinstall the system entirely Furthermore in case of an emergency you may boot the system from the CD to perform maintenance or even run services The software is provided both in English and French but any keyboard layout may be used The keyboard and mouse can be connected through PS 2 or USB connectors indifferently To boot from CD power up the StorlQ server and insert the CD You ll see the following display INTELL SUE If you re using an USB CD drive type in usb at the prompt To see a list of all boot options press F2 key The options are storiq Normal boot usb Normal boot from USB drive firewire Boot from firewire drive expert Expert boot mode interactive fbxga fbsvga Force video mode to xga svga failsafe Fail safe mode no hardware detection memtest Thorough memory testing Simply press Enter to boot the default entry storiq Once the operating system is up you ll see a login prompt see below There a
25. lowercase Code Page default gt Miscellaneous prodos gt make compatible with applell clients Options crif gt enable crif translation for TEXT files l noadouble gt don t create AppleDouble unless a resource fork needs to be created ro gt mount the volume as read only mswindows gt enforce filename restrictions imposed by MS Windows nohex gt don t do hex translations for anything except dot files usedots gt don t do hex translation for dot files limitsize gt limit disk size reporting to 2GB guest users 0 gt Allow guest users Database Path Password azz Allow Users Groups Deny Users Groups RO Users Groups RW Users Groups i ft CIE You may choose to share either Users home directories either some other folder To share user home directories simply check the option Don t type in anything in the Directory entry box To share any other folder type in a share name pick a folder to share either by typing in its complete path in the Directory text box or by navigating the system by clicking the following button then simply click Create Usually you won t need any of the advanced options However these are described in the StorlQ System Advanced administration manual 3 4 iSCSI disk sharing iSCSI sharing is different from other sharing modes instead of sharing files and folders you re sharing either physical devices hard drives partitions logical
26. n manual Type in the path for the directory you d want to share or navigate to it by clicking the following button Select which client systems will be allowed to access this share by choosing one of Everyone Hosts lpv4 Network then fill in the text fields if applicable Everyone all systems can connect to this share Hosts type in a list of host names or IP addresses separated with commas Ipv4 Network type in a network address usually ending with a O and a network mask to grant access to a whole network or subnetwork Lastly choose the appropriate security options as listed below Option Function Read only The share isn t writable Immediately sync all writes Insure data coherency but degrades significantly performance Trust remote users Everyone All remote users are trusted like local users Everyone except root same thing but the super user Nobody only local users are allowed 3 3 Mac OS File sharing Netatalk Nota Bene Appletalk filesharing is considered deprecated under Mac OS X 10 3 and better For Mac OS X 10 3 higher NFS is to be preferred To configure this service click the Netatalk Apple File Print Services icon You ll see the following display el Mozila Firefox chier Edition Affichage Historique Marque pages ScrapBook Qutils Ade 2 18 amp https d165 ntelique com 10000metatalk Aarle we to
27. ollowed by the e mail address between angle brackets lt gt for example suppo from For rt lt support intellique com gt test lt confirm intellique com gt e mail sender type in the address trom which the messages will appear to originate instance use the StorlQ serial number as the name SMTP server specify which SMTP server to use to send messages An SMTP server is installed in the system exim so it s possible to use localhost or 127 0 0 1 as an SMTP if necessary after configuring the SMTP program Configuring SNMP alerts You should use default parameters if possible However you may need to adapt them to your SNMP configuration Default parameters are Host manager name or IP address of the host catching up SNMP traps Port UDP 163 Community public SNMP Version SNMPv2 OID Enterprise 1 5 6 9 8 4 Proxy configuration If your network is using a proxy for internet access insert its address here It will then be used for system updates and Intellique support remote monitoring Controllers Select controllers and drives you wish to monitor If you need to remove a disk drive from the system first remove it from monitoring or you ll receive alerts 3 File Sharing 3 1 Windows File Sharing Two Windows File Sharing modules are available the Simple and Advanced versions The Advanced Windows File Sharing
28. ory or some other folder To share all home folders simply select the option don t enter any target directory Simply enter a Share comment if you wish To share any other folder type in a share name pick a folder to share either by typing in its complete path in the Directory to share text box or by navigating the system by clicking the following button Choose appropriate options see the following table then click Create Option Function Automatically create directory If the path doesn t exist the directory will be created Available The share is usable Browsable The share is visible when manually browsing the network Writable The share isn t read only To modify an existing share click its name in the share list Caution when creating of modifying a share changes aren t immediately visible from client systems on the network and may take up to a couple of minutes to actually apply Viewing connections You can control users connections on all shares by clicking View all connections from the share list You can also check connections for a specific share by clicking the share name then View connections 3 2 NFS file sharing Unix To configure this service click the NFS Exports icon You ll see the following display Mozilla Firefox Behier Edition Affichage Historique Marque pages ScrapBook Qutis Aide e t https 4165 ntellque com 10000fnt
29. ose a file path and name you may browse the directory to store the file into with the usual button a LUN size and unit and how to initialize the file Quick Initialization is an essential tool first it avoids you long waits any time you create a file of more than a couple of gigabytes size then it gives you access to the latest and the greatest feature of the storage industry thin provisioning When quick initialized an iSCSI LUN actually uses only so much actual space as the initiator filled it up It s so pertectly possible to create arbitrarily large LUN files even bigger than the containing filesystem as long as the actually used space is inferior to the containing filesystem capacity Used space as reported from the Partitions on local Disk System Information the dt command etc on the StorlQ server is indeed accurate With volumes bigger than a couple of gigabytes complete initialization can take a really long time Use Quick initialization whenever possible If you plan to use thin provisioning intensively allocating way more space than you actually have available monitor carefully available storage space on the StorlQ server An unplanned out of disk space error makes way to unpredictable initiator failures 4 Administration and maintenance 4 1 Restarting services To shutdown the StorlQ server simply press briefly the power button Each administrative web
30. ould be after a reboot Warning this may make your system inaccessible via the network and cut off access to Webmin The Network Interfaces tool presents you with a list of the existing network interfaces on the system and their parameters Interfaces currently in use have an IP address in the Active IP column Des Network Configuration _ a etho 10 0 4 153 16 D he doopbak loopbak Create a new interface amp Return to network interfaces Click on an interface name for instance ethO to modify its settings You may either modity the stored contiguration without applying it now but only after a reboot either store it and apply it right now apply now and at boot button or apply it without saving parameters Apply now button es Interface Configuration od bd 77255 255 0 0 100 255 255 Apply now Apply at boot Apply now and at boot Disable now Disable at boot Disable now and at boot Delete interface Return to network interfaces 2 3 Alarm management Alarm management is available through the web administration interface when logged in as admin or root from the System tab entry StorlQ alarms configuration The system will send out alarm messages using email SNMP and a beeping sound There are two alarms level alert and information The alert level send out messages in case of a failur
31. r Module Config Volume Config Help Global Configurations and Options 7 B LE Servers Show Current Users Miscellaneous Options Service is not runni Start Apple File Sharing aaa anes running Termine d165 intellique com 10000 Q E F o i To modify a share simply click its name Global Configurations and Options This section has three icons Servers Allows you to define virtual servers You server StorlQ then may appears under different server names on different Appletalk networks Show Current Users This screen displays the list of connected users You may also force deconnection from there Caution Forcing an user deconnection may cause of data corruption Miscellaneous Options This option is of no use in the current version Sharing folders Click the Create new file share or an existing share to modify it and you ll obtain the following display Mozillan Firefox Bichier Edition Affichage Historique Marque pages ScrapBook Qutils Aide 2 18 x https d165 ntellique com 10000metatalk edit_fshare cgi Ale ieee Merriam Webster Diction 2 Create New Apple File Share Share name C Home Directories share Directory Lu Casefold Options default C tolower gt lowercases names in both directions toupper gt uppercases names in both directions C xlatelower gt client sees lowercase server sees uppercase xlateupper gt client sees uppercase server sees
32. ram Bootup and Shutdown This module provides you with a list of boot time and shutdown services allows you to activate and deactivate them and start and stop them at will You can also stop or restart system from there and add or remove boot services You ll find this icon under the System tab en Webmin 1 390 on triangle Debian Linux 40 Mozilla Firefox Fichter Edition Affichage Historique Marque pages ScrapBook Outils Aide te Ka https Ariangle intellique com 10000 e Bootup and Shutdown BB eas ahutdown Create a new bootup and shutdown action chan E SSS ee Passwords Check for daemon presence his init d script is used to start apache2 It basically just calls Oey Disk Quotas O apachez apache2ctl O atd No Debian init script for the atd deferred executions Disk and O bootclean No Le Network O lbootlogd No Starts or stops the bootlogd log program Filesystems O lbootmisc sh No S AA Information O checkfs sh No Check all filesystems gt Jui System O checkroot sh No Check to root file system D konsole screen sh No Prepare console Pa o cron mas cron is a standard UNIX program that runs user specified O discover No distccd Debian init d script contributed by Jason Thomas Debian BiB Los users fel DES Yes 161136 m and Groups Di exima Yes exim is a Mail Transport agent O gdm No Debian init script for the GNOME Display Manager O
33. re drive may be faulty Replace it If you can t replace it immediately you may try to force rebuild anyway with the tw cli command line utility using the ignoreECC option Please see the StorlQ System Advanced administration for tw_cli usage
34. re two default system users available storig and root the system administrator For standard installation logging in as storiq is recommended ce by INTELL UE Username OK Cancel Please enter your username Language Session Actions Tue Apr 29 7 03 PM Once logged in you may start installation by double clicking the StorlQ Installation icon on the desktop INTELLIQUE StoAla gt installation Storg instaitation You ll be prompted for the root password If you don t remember it please contact Intellique support Then you ll be asked to choose between standard installation Default mode and advanced installation Expert mode Please see the StorlQ System Advanced administration for the advanced installation procedure Caution Standard installation will DESTROY ALL DATA on all drives Follow up on screen instructions for standard installation StorlQ Install StorIQ Install Do you want to installing StorIQ system Mode Default Intellique recommanded installation w Mode Expert Custom install You ll only have to type in two informations the name you want to give to your StorlQ server Set hostname StorIQ Install Give a host name for this machine without domain appended OK Then the StorlQ serial number its written on the invoice the delivery order and the back of the StorlQ system Enter Serial Number StorIQ Inst
35. volumes either virtual disks disks images The shared device is seen as a local SCSI device from the initiator client point of view You must usually consider impossible to use the same iSCSI device with write access on two different initiators simultaneously You can export devices in three different modes nullio test mode All write inputs are discarded and reading returns random data Blockio the device is accessed directly block size is made accordingly to the initiator settings there isn t any disk cache on the target Fileio the device is accessed through the target VFS layer It goes through the file cache on the target but block size is constrained to 4KB cache page size Choose the mode to use to match usage nullio allows to test network performance blockio minimizes latency and is better for very big or very small I Os example of applications database audio editing fileio is better at sequential access example video broadcasting Creating an iSCSI target iSCSI target name is free made of letters numbers points colons and hyphens However the iSCSI norm defines the name format as following ign Year month of domain depot Top level domain Domain host name Target name example igqn 2001 04 com intellique storiq targetl The target name itself the part following the colon is free and must be unique Each target has its own connection settings However sev
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