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Setting up Your ix2 Network Storage Setting up Your ix2 Network Storage 1 CHAPTER 1

Set up my ix2 Network Storage if it's not discovered If your ix2 is not discovered when you enter the URL identified in your Quick Start Guide, you have two ways of discovering it. Discovering with LenovoEMC Storage Manager You can install LenovoEMC Storage Manager from the Setup Portal, which helps...

Network Connection Connecting the ix2 Network Storage to Your Network First, check the package contents. Verify that the box contains the following items: 1. ix2 (models may vary) 2. Power Adapter and Cord 3. Quick Start Guide 4. Ethernet Cable Package contents may vary. Setting up Your ix2 Network ...

Connecting the ix2 Initial Setup If you have purchased more than one ix2, complete all steps on one device before setting up additional devices. 1. Use the included network cable to connect the ix2 to your network router, switch or directly to a computer. 2. Connect the included power adapter to the...

Jumbo frame support should only be enabled if you are sure your network is jumbo-frame compatible and all network devices have been configured to support jumbo frames. It is recommended that you confirm all network interface cards (NICs) are configured to support jumbo frames before enabling this fe...

Naming Your ix2 Network Storage You can provide a meaningful name for your ix2 using the Device Identification page. This page in the ix2 Management Console enables you to change the Storage Device Name, the Storage Device Descriptive Name, and the Workgroup Name. Change any of these by editing the ...

Enabling Active Directory Trusted Domains By enabling Active Directory trusted domains on your ix2, you enable the importing of users and groups from other trusted domains to your ix2 device. Those users and groups from other domains will then have access to features on your ix2, including accessing...

Customizing the Access to Features on Your ix2 Network Storage An administrator user can customize the look of the ix2 Management Console using Feature Selection (FS). Using FS, an admin can enable the display of certain features and disable others. In addition, an admin can provide non-administrato...

Non-Administrator User Log In Non-administrator users can log in to a ix2 with feature access enabled. When these non-admin users access a ix2, they first see the Login screen where they enter their login credentials. After logging in, the ix2 Management Console displays with those features to which...

Tracing Events on Your ix2 Network Storage The Event Log page displays only the 1000 most recent events logged to the ix2. A complete event log, however, is available for download. The following icons indicate the severity of each status message: ● INFORMATIONIdentifies that a change has been made t...

Obtaining System Status for Your ix2 Network Storage The System Status page displays space usage information and status information about your ix2 Network Storage. It also provides a control panel that enables you to: ● Blink the lights ● Restart ● Shut down Space Usage The Space Usage section graph...

Sharing Overview Your ix2 Network Storage is set up for storing, retrieving, and accessing files among users, client computers, and applications. File sharing is accomplished by creating Shares; setting up security, which includes creating users; setting up media services; and configuring Active Fol...

Shares What are Shares and How Do I Organize Content with Them? Shares are folders that contain all types of content, including documents, pictures, and music files. Shares can be unsecured, which means that anyone who has access to your network can access the content in these Shares. Shares can als...

Managing Shares You can change Share information, change access permissions, make a Share an Active Folder, use Share volumes, and modify a Share volume. If available, you can also enable NFS secured access. Changing Share Information 1. Modify the existing name for the Share. 2. Choose whether to e...

Enabling NFS Secured Access 1. To enable NFS , first click the switch on from the Protocols page. 2. On the Shares page, select a secure Share and expand the NFS section. You cannot apply a rule to an unsecured Share. 3. Click Add an NFS rule to add a Host Name for the rule. Rules are added to speci...

Using Protocols to Share Files What Are Protocols and How Do I Use Them to Share Files? Your ix2 Network Storage uses communication protocols to mount file systems and allow files to be transferred between client computers and the ix2. The ix2 includes the following protocols for file sharing: ● App...

To change any Bluetooth settings, click . FTP File Sharing On the Protocols page, click the switch to turn on FTP (File Transfer Protocol) and allow access to your ix2 Network Storage. Click to select either FTP or secure FTP (SFTP) or both. You must enable security to apply SFTP. If you select and ...

Access to Shares through NFS and User Permissions When you access your ix2 through NFS, the access permissions to content on the ix2 are controlled by Host-Based Access Control rules on your client computer, not by user access permissions on your ix2. This means that any valid user on the Linux comp...

3. Confirm your password. 4. Enter the IP address of the host in the Trap Receivers text box. To grant access to multiple receivers, list all of them in the text box, separating each entry with a space. 5. Click Apply to save your settings. To change any SNMP settings, click . SNMP Traps A ix2 can p...

"webdav" to access your device. Your ix2 has a remote access password only if the device is not secured and a Personal Cloud was created on it . Configuring WebDAV settings 1. To enable WebDAV, click the switch on. 2. To enable WebDAV for HTTP, check Enable WebDAV O ver HTTP. 3. To enable We...

Sharing Content through the Home Page Sharing Your Content with the World When you set up the Home Page of your ix2 Network Storage, you are presenting content to anyone who accesses your ix2. That content includes a slideshow and unsecured Shares. You can manage the look of the Home Page by using t...

Automatically Sending Content to Multiple People at Once You can send content to multiple people at once using an email distribution active folder. You can configure a Share as an Email Active Folder so that when you add files to that Share, they are automatically sent to the recipients on the email...

Transferring Content to and from Your ix2 Network Storage with Copy Jobs You can transfer content to and from your ix2 using the Copy Jobs feature. Copy Jobs copies files from one storage device to another, either by a set schedule or immediately by the user. An example of a Copy Job scenario is if ...

Getting Content from a USB External Storage Device You can transfer content to your ix2 Network Storage from external USB storage devices. The External Storage page displays a list of externally connected storage devices. You can connect supported external storage to your ix2 using one of the provid...

iSCSI: Creating IP-Based Storage Area Networks (SAN) iSCSI: Creating IP-Based Storage Area Networks (SAN) 37 CHAPTER 3

Adding iSCSI Drives To add an iSCSI drive: 1. From the ix2 Management Console, click iSCSI. 2. When the iSCSI page opens, click the switch to enable the feature. 3. Click Add an iSCSI drive. 4. Enter a name for the iSCSI drive. 5. Enter a size for the iSCSI drive. The size must be smaller than the f...

Managing iSCSI Drives Adding CHAP User Access to an iSCSI Drive After you add an iSCSI drive, you create a list of CHAP users that have access to an iSCSI drive. These users are independent from the users you create on your ix2 when you enable security . Adding iSCSI CHAP users does not enable secur...

Managing Drives The Drive Management page shows drive model and size information. The Drive Management page provides settings for managing storage and lets you apply global settings for drives on your ix2 Network Storage. Setting Write Caching Select a value for disk write caching. Write caching is ...

Drive Status An image on the Drive Management page provides information on the drive status of your ix2. The image displays the physical layout of drives and the drive slot numbers. If you hover your mouse over a drive in the image, the ToolTip displays the drive model, size, and status, including i...

Backing up and Restoring Your Content Backing up and Restoring Your Content 45 CHAPTER 5

Backup and Restore Overview Your ix2 Network Storage provides many ways to back up and restore content. To back up content to and restore content from your ix2, you can use: ● Time Machine ● Copy Jobs To back up and restore your ix2, you can use the following features and applications: ● Copy Jobs ●...

Backing up to and Restoring from Your ix2 Network Storage Backing up Macs with Time Machine You can use Time Machine to back up a Mac client computer to the ix2 network storage device. Follow the instructions below to set up Time Machine backups to your ix2: 1. Connect your Mac to your ix2 using App...

Backing up Your ix2 Network Storage Copy Jobs Transferring Content to and from Your ix2 Network Storage with Copy Jobs You can transfer content to and from your ix2 using the Copy Jobs feature. Copy Jobs copies files from one storage device to another, either by a set schedule or immediately by the ...

Managing Copy Jobs From the Copy Jobs page, you can add, start, stop, delete, or monitor Copy Jobs. After you have added Copy Jobs, the Copy Jobs page displays a list of Copy Jobs. The information section includes the name of each Copy Job, date and time it last ran, and its next scheduled time. Fro...

8. In the Mozy Backup Settings dialog box, select one of the following: ● Automatic Backup — to generate an automatic backup anytime you add a new file or change an existing file to your selected Shares or folders. ● Scheduled Backup — to set up a scheduled backup. 9. If you are creating a scheduled...

● Server Address — the Avamar server IP address or hostname. ● Client Domain — the registered domain name from the Avamar server. Backing up with Amazon S3 The Amazon S3 online storage service allows you to back up your ix2 Network Storage to the cloud. Enabling the Amazon S3 Feature 1. On the Amazo...

Securing Your ix2 Network Storage and Contents Securing Your ix2 Network Storage and Contents 54 CHAPTER 6

Enabling Security and Creating an Administrator User With security turned on, only administrator users can view or change settings on the ix2, including creating or deleting users and Shares. When you create users, you limit access to your ix2 to specific people, and when you secure Shares, you limi...

Users Users and Groups Overview When security is enabled, the Users & Groups page displays all users and groups on the ix2 Network Storage and enables administrators to add and modify users and groups. Non-administrator users can be added to limit access to Share content. Additional administrato...

invitation by entering a user's email address along with any additional comments. A user then receives the invitation, which contains the Personal Cloud name and username and password. A user enters that information from LenovoEMC Storage Manager. For more information on this, refer to the online he...

● Q uota Size — set a quota size by entering a value in gigabytes. To have no quota, leave this field blank. ● Administrator — check this box if you would like to allow this user to manage the ix2. An administrator does not inherently have access to all Shares. Access to Shares must be granted expli...

Groups Groups Overview Groups consist of one or more users, and administrators can grant each group rights to Shares on the ix2 Network Storage. Users can belong to more than one group. The Groups page enables administrators to create one or more groups, and grant each group rights to Shares on the ...

Removing a User from the Group 1. Open a group to display users belonging to it. 2. To remove a user from the group, click the next to that user. When the Remove user pop-up window appears, click Yes to remove the user. Changing Access Permissions 1. To refresh the list of users, click above the tab...

Using Active Directory Domain to Manage Users and Groups Active Directory Users and Groups Overview On the Users and Groups page, administrator users can import users and groups from an Active Directory (AD) server and grant them access rights to Shares on the ix2 Network Storage. In addition, you c...

1. To add permissions to a Share, click Add access permissions. 2. From the Add Access Permissions pop-up window, select a Share or Shares for the user or group to access. Select the checkbox in the title bar to select all the Shares listed. 3. Click Apply to save your changes. 4. In the table listi...

Managing Your ix2 Network Storage with Local and Active Directory Users Managing Your ix2 Network Storage with Local and Active Directory Users You can configure your ix2 Network Storage to allow both local users and groups and Active Directory (AD) users and groups on the device simultaneously. Whi...

Creating Share Permissions for AD Users and Local Users You can create access permissions for both AD and local users on any new or existing Shares on your ix2. For more information, see adding Shares and managing Shares . Switching to Workgroup Mode from Active Directory You can switch your ix2 fro...

Personal Cloud: Accessing Your LenovoEMC Personal Cloud From Anywhere in the World Personal Cloud: Accessing Your LenovoEMC Personal Cloud From Anywhere in the World 67 CHAPTER 7

What Is LenovoEMC Personal Cloud ? LenovoEMC Personal Cloud turns your ix2 Network Storage into a hub for sharing files and backing up data among computers anywhere in the world. A Personal Cloud can exist on your ix2 Network Storage, or on another LenovoEMC network device. When you create a Persona...

Configuring Router Port Forwarding for Personal Cloud In most cases, your ix2 Network Storage attempts to automatically configure your router. However, if it cannot, a message displays that your router is not configured for port forwarding, and you must manually configure your router to forward a sp...

Configuring Your LenovoEMC Personal Cloud As a LenovoEMC Personal Cloud administrator, you can manage various settings on your Personal Cloud to ensure that it functions as efficiently as possible. Settings include specifying an email address when sending invitations. When data is traveling through ...

Managing Trusted Devices on a Personal Cloud As LenovoEMC Personal Cloudadministrator, you can manage trusted devices on your Personal Cloud. Trusted devices can be disconnected, or you can completely delete a trusted device from the Personal Cloud. Disconnecting Trusted Devices Click My Personal Cl...

Sharing Content Using Social Media Sharing Content Using Social Media 81 CHAPTER 8

Facebook Facebook is a social network to connect with friends and family. You can configure a Share as a Facebook Active Folder so that photos and movies added to that Share are automatically uploaded to your Facebook account. Refer to Managing Shares on page 23 for more information on managing Shar...

Flickr Flickr is a photo sharing network for sharing photos with friends and family. You can configure a Share as a Flickr Active Folder so that images and albums added to that Share are automatically uploaded to your Flickr account. Refer to Managing Shares on page 23 for more information on managi...

YouTube YouTube is a social media site to share video content. You can configure a Share as a YouTube Active Folder so that videos added to that Share are automatically uploaded to your YouTube account. Refer to Managing Shares on page 23 for more information on managing Shares and Active Folders. I...

Media Management Overview The ix2 has a built-in media server that, when turned on, scans for media content in specific Shares that have media sharing enabled. Any media content contained in these specific Shares are accessible to any user on your network with a media player, even if the Share is se...

Sharing Media Content over the Internet There are two methods for sharing media content on your ix2 with anyone on the internet. You can enable internet access on the Media Server page. Alternatively, you can enable internet access by configuring your LenovoEMC Personal Cloud . Enabling Internet Acc...

Media Aggregation If you have multiple Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) servers in your network that have media content, you can combine all media content into one view by enabling aggregation on your ix2. When you enable aggregation, all media content on DLNA servers is available for playback...

Streaming Music, Movies, and Pictures The Media Server supports playback of videos, music and pictures from any UPnP AV (Universal Plug and Play Audio Visual) network media players, such as Playstation3, Windows Media Player, or Xbox 360. You can play back all your media files from your individual h...

Photos Photos Overview Your ix2 has multiple ways to manage your pictures. Your ix2 can: ● Stream pictures that are in Shares with media sharing enabled ● Display pictures on the Home Page in a slideshow ● Automatically resize pictures ● Transfer pictures from your digital camera ● Upload pictures t...

4. Select Photo Resize from the drop-down menu. 5. You can set a size for your pictures. Select 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, or enter a Custom Resolution for resizing images. The resized photos are saved to a folder on the Share named by the photo size you choose, such as 800x600. 6. You can keep a c...

Music Music Overview If you have music files in media-sharing enabled folders on your ix2, those music files can be streamed by a DLNA player running on a computer on the network. Streaming Music The ix2 has a built-in media server that, when turned on, scans for music in specific folders that have ...

Torrents Torrent Overview Torrent downloads allow you to share files using a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol. With torrent download enabled, you can download files using the torrent protocol to your ix2and then those files can be uploaded by other torrent users. After you have added torrent jobs ...

● Device IP Address 192.168.1.1 ● Port name HTTP ● Port number Set to the same port value set on the Torrent Download page. ● Protocol TCP Torrent Active Folders Sharing Torrent Downloads with Other Peers Torrent downloads allow you to share files using a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol. With Tor...

Videos Video Capabilities Overview Your ix2 Network Storage has multiple ways to manage your videos. Your ix2 can: ● Stream movies that are in Shares with media sharing enabled ● Upload videos that are added to Shares associated with social media sites Streaming Movies The ix2 Network Storage has a ...

Manually Adding a Video Camera Follow the instructions below to add your video camera, set a retention policy for your saved recordings, and schedule your video surveillance recordings. 1. On the Video Surveillance page, click Add Video Camera. 2. In the Video Camera Information section, enter the f...

Click Apply to save your changes. If you select Maximum days to save recordings, enter a value in days. If you select Maximum space for recordings, enter a value in gigabytes. Setting this value too high may consume all available space, while setting this value too low may cause recordings to be del...

Application Manager The Application Manager page allows you to add applications to your ix2 from an installation file located on your computer. For each application installed you may have the option to uninstall, start, and stop the application. This page shows the applications which came preinstall...

Software Updates The Software Updates page identifies the ix2 software status and provides the ability to update the software for the ix2. Auto-update process: installing a device software update 1. In the table listing the current software installed on your ix2, click in the Action column to check ...

Backing Up Your ix2 Network Storage Settings The Configuration Backup and Restore page allows you to back up and restore system configuration information. Backing up a configuration saves various system properties, including users, groups, device identification, and Share names and permissions. Conf...

About the ix2 Network Storage Components This topic describes the front and rear panel components of the ix2. Front Panel 1. Power/Status Indicator — Displays the current operational status of the ix2. ● Solid White — ix2 is healthy. ● Flashing White — Flashes when the ix2 is starting up or shutting...

Rear Panel 1. Security Lock — Connect a security cable to prevent theft. 2. Power Button — Use the power button to power the ix2 on and off. 3. USB Connector — Supports devices such as USB storage devices and printers. 4. G igabit Ethernet — High-speed Ethernet connector that will automatically dete...

Energy Saving The Energy Saving page provides power settings for the ix2. Power Down Drives Click the Power Down Drives drop-down menu to select how much idle time should be allowed to elapse before the ix2 powers down the drives. Drives automatically power back up when the ix2 accesses them. You ma...

Troubleshooting Routers If you encounter a problem while connecting or using your ix2, check the topics listed below for possible solutions. If you have properly set port forwarding on your router and remote access still does not work, you may have multiple routers on your network. In this situation...

Warranty Information Limited Warranty Notice Lenovo Network Storage products are covered by the terms of the Lenovo Limited Warranty, version L505-0010-02 08/2011. Read the Lenovo Limited Warranty (LLW) at http://www.lenovo.com/warranty/llw_02/. You can view the LLW in a number of languages from thi...

Regulatory Information This topic provides regulatory information for various countries. Manufacturer/Responsible Party LenovoEMC, Ltd., 4059 South 1900 West, Roy, UT 84067 EU Representative Lenovo, Einsteinova 21, 851 01 Bratislava, Slovakia Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Statement This eq...