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User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER Table of Content Introduction.............................................................................................................3 Product Specifications .................................................................................3 Benefits and Key Features .........................................................................4 Physical Parts and Panel of the Powerful Server ...................................8 Package Contents.......................
User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER Introduction Thank you for purchasing our innovative all-in-one solution---Powerful Server appliance for your networking needs. The AIRIS POWER SERVER integrates server services such as a Network Address Translator (NAT), Virtual Private Network (VPN), SPI firewall, and networked storage into one easy to manage device. The Powerful Server appliance allows a group of trusted computers and networks to connect quickly and safely.
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User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER functionality, any sub-network can be grouped as though they are in the same network. Firewall The Powerful Server appliance provides a powerful firewall capable of preventing hackers from attacking the gateway or internal network. Many famous DoS attacks can be detected and prevented. Whenever an attack is detected, the system will alert the network manager that an attack has occurred.
User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER Network Attached Storage Network-attached storage (NAS) is the concept of shared storage on a network. NAS transfers data using industry standard file sharing protocols such as CIFS, AFP, NFS and FTP. Files can be shared simultaneously by clients regardless of the operating system they are using or the network server they are attached to. This solution provides convenient common storage resources.
User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER Down and Hard Disk Standby. We’ll describe each part in detail below. - Power Down We turn the power down in several ways: Power Down by Web Please select System Management -> Administrator Settings. In Power Down field, to select the enable radio button and then click the apply button. Power Down by press the power button Prompt Power Down Please press and hold the power button at least 4 seconds.
User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER Figure 1.2 Physical Parts and Panel of the Powerful Server One WAN port: 10/100 Mbps WAN port MDI/MDIX switch Four LAN ports: 10/100 Mbps Four USB 2.
User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER WAN Port The WAN port is used to connect to an ADSL/Cable modem for linking to the Internet. WAN MDI/MDIX Switch The WAN MDI/MDIX switch is used to adjust the cable connection of the WAN port. If the port is connected to hub, you should move the switch to the “hub” side; if the port is connected to PC like machine, you should move the switch to the “PC” side. As for the four LAN ports, there is no need to add additional switches for each cable connection.
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User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER Quick Installation This chapter will give you brief instructions on how to install the product. In section 2.1, we will configure the hardware part ofAIRIS Power Serverstep by step. In section 2.2, we will check whether the IP address of your PC is assigned by DHCP. Once we complete the installation of theAIRIS Power Serverhardware and checked your PC settings, we will use the web-based management to configure theAIRIS Power Serverto suit your network environment.
User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER Check Your PC First Please check the following settings on your PC: Do not assign an IP address to your PC. 1. Please select sequentially: In Start menu -> Settings -> Control panel -> Network connections -> Local Area Connection. Then a 2. “Local Area Connection Status” window shows up. (Figure 2.2a) Click the Properties button in Local Area Connection Status. Then the “Local Area Connection Properties” window shows up. (Figure 3. 2.
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User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER Connect to the Web-Based Manager Please follow the steps to connect to the web-based manager: 1. Open a browser on the PC that is DIRECTLY connected to the SA. Type “http://172.16.1.1” in address field. And then press Enter key. 2. An authentication window shows up to prompt you to type the username and the password. 3. Leave the username blank and type “admin” as a password. (Figure 2.3a.) Figure 2.3a 4. Then press OK button.
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User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER Web-Based Manager – Basic Settings Start to configure your network environment by clicking the Basic Settings in left menu. The Basic Settings page is shown as Figure 2.4a. Figure 2.4a The Basic Settings page contains Network Policy, Internal Network Interface, Domain Name Server, and External Network Interface. We describe these settings below in detail. You must click the apply button after you finish inputting the settings.
User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER Figure 2.4b ‧Internal Network Interface The default settings are: Host Name: “SA” Private IP: “172.16.1.1” Private IP Netmask: “255.255.0.0” According to the default settings, we will assign the LAN to network “172.16.1.x” You can add more detailed configurations later in section 4.1 DHCP Server settings.
User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER External Network Interface External network interface includes ADSL/PPPoE , DHCP Client and Fixed IP Address settings. Make sure that the system information webpage shows that your Link status is ‘Link Up’. If not, please check your connection and/or switch the MDX switch located next to your WAN port. We have to choose one of the three ways to configure the external network interface.
User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER Example 2: DHCP Client / Cable Modem If you have a dynamic IP address from your ISP to access the Internet, please select the DHCP Client radio button. Once the external IP address is obtained via the DHCP protocol, there is no need to give an external IP address, external gateway address or netmask. The DHCP server will dynamically assign these fields. In general, you should choose this option if you are connecting the Powerful Server appliance to a cable modem.
User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER Example 3: ADSL Connection Most ADSL connections do not give you a fixed IP address. In this case, you must enter the user name and password provided by your ISP for authentication. Please follow the steps below. 1. Please select the ADSL/PPPoE radio button. 2. In ADSL/PPPoE Setting: Enter the User Name and Password. 3. Click the apply button to save your settings.
User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER Example 4: ADSL/PPTP Client Setting If your ISP provides a PPTP server, you could set up the PPTP client here. Please follow the steps: 1. Select ADSL/PPTP radio button. 2. Enter the user name. (You get this from your ISP) 3. Enter the password. (You get this from your ISP) 4. Enter the IP address of your host in My IP Address. 5. Enter the IP address of the server in Server IP Address. In the following chapters, we will cover more details of configuring the SA.
User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER Configuration Hierarchy This chapter gives you an overview of all the configuration options available. The Powerful Server appliance is a multifunction product. The section3.1 explains the corresponding settings for each function. And in section3.2, we describe the power management in detail.
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User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER Network Settings When you select Network Settings in the left menu of the web page, five configuration options appear: DHCP Server, IP Alias, Multiple NAT, Route Settings and DDNS. Please refer to the corresponding section for these configurations. DHCP Server In DHCP Server settings, we assign the rage of the virtual IP addresses for the four LAN ports of SA.
User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER If they have more devices or want a different IP range, then all they need to do is modify the range that theAIRIS Power Serverhands out so it does not hand out an IP in that range. Typical offices set their DHCP server to assign IPs from 30 through 200. IPs 1 through 29 are usually assigned to servers and 201 and above are reserved for special uses. You can either enable the DHCP server or disable it in this screen also.
User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER connected to the LAN port of SA. 1. Select Disable radio button. 2. Assign a static IP address to each device connected to the LAN port. For example, you have four PCs, PC1, PC2, PC3 and PC4 connected to the LAN port. You have to assign a UNIQUE static IP address i.e. “192.168.0.34”, “192.168.0.25”, “192.168.0.18”, “192.168.0.108” to PC1, PC2, PC3 and PC4 respectively. Note: The static IP addresses assigned are all in the same subnet with SA.
User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER Multiple NAT If you get several fixed IP addresses from your ISP and the ISP restricts the bandwidth for each fixed IP address, you have to prevent the network packets from always sending on the same IP address and the other IP address to sit idle. Multiple NAT solves this and allows you to increase the bandwidth. Multiple NAT allows you to dispatch your network packets evenly to these IP addresses provided by ISP. 1. Enter the Internal IP range1, e.g. “172.16.1.
User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER 3. Enter the Internal IP range2, e.g. “192.168.1.1/24”. It means the network is “192.168.1.x”. 4. Enter the External IP range2, the IP address range you get from your ISP. 5. Or enter “0” in each field for non-setting multiple NAT. 6. Click the apply button. After you configure the Multiple NAT on the group of fixed IP addresses, it can increase the bandwidth. The Internal IP range you entered will be routed to the corresponding External IP range.
User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER “172.16.1.249”) 4. Enter the number in Hop count column. The number means how many gateways you have to pass through. 5. Click the apply button. In the figures, the destination network is “192.168.6.x”. And the packets will be route in or out of the destination network through the gateway “172.16.1.249”. DDNS Your Internet Service Provider (ISP) provides you at least one IP address to use when connecting to the Internet.
User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER domain of your choice from the list they provide for you. The DDNS service in our device works by uploading your new WAN IP address to the servers when it changes. You would only need to enter the account information in the DDNS setup page of your unit. How to setup a DynDNS DDNS account: 1. Access the DynDNS homepage ( www.dyndns.org ). 2. If you have not registered, click ‘Sign Up Now’ to create a new account. 3.
User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER Firewall Settings When you select the Firewall Settings item in left menu of the web page, four configuration items appear including: Virtual Server settings, URL Filter, IP Filter setup and Denial of Service. Please refer the corresponding section for each of these items. Virtual Server Settings The virtual server service is a way to simulate multiple servers on the intranet. You have several IP addresses within your LAN.
User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER forwarding rules to deal with the packet from the Internet users and direct theAIRIS Power Serverto forward the specific packets to the specific IP address. Users from the Internet could be allowed to access the specific server on your LAN. You can configure different IPs to act as different virtual servers. For example, the users accessing port 21 will be directed to “172.16.2.1”. “172.16.2.1” could be a FTP server. Users accessing port 80 will be directed to “172.
User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER 1. 2. 3. 4. Select Enable radio button in URL Filter. In Site 1, please enter the URL address. Please repeat the step 2 to build more URL addresses not allowed. Click the apply button. If the Site1 is given as www.yahoo.com, any hosts in the intranet will not be allowed to connect to www.yahoo.com. If you do not restrict any access from intranet to Internet, please select the Disable radio button in the URL Filter.
User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER 5. Enter the range of port numbers (if any) in Blocked Port Range. In the example, if any hosts that requests information from 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.254 in the intranet with port number 21, 23 or from 100 to 1024 with TCP protocol, will be blocked. Denial of Service It is highly recommended that the DoS Protection feature be enabled to prevent attacks on the network.
User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER VPN Settings VPNs (Virtual Private Networking) provide secure communication between two separate networks without using a dedicated leased line. In order to achieve this functionality, a secure tunnel must be built between the two sites for secure communication over the Internet. TheAIRIS Power Serversupports the most popular protocol - PPTP. PPTP (Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol), described in RFC 2637 is a PPP-specific protocol proposed by Microsoft.
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User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER System Management When you select the System Management item in the left menu, four configuration items appear including; Administrator Settings, Event Report Settings, Firmware Update, Time Settings and SNMP. Please refer the corresponding section for these configuration details. Administrator Settings In Administrator settings you will find the basic administrator functions. The settings are easily modified and managed by the administrator.
User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER 1. New Password: the administrator could change the administrator password here. Please enter the new password you would like to change to. Note that you must fill the new password in both Password change and Password confirmation fields. If both fields are not the same, the page will not be submitted. 2. FTP Server: please select the enable radio button to establish the FTP server. Or select the disable radio button for none. 3.
User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER Event Report Settings Send alerts to an e-mail account. The mail server should allow e-mails from the same network. E-mail address to send the alerts to. Firmware Update Updates and functionality can be added via this function. Please check the web for the latest firmware if you are having any issues. In general, no update should be needed unless it is recommended by technical support.
User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER The update percentage will update the status. Click Restart when the upload is complete. Though it is not generally necessary, You should restore factory default to make sure that new features and settings are implemented. Note: You must re-initialize the hard drive if you do this.
User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER Time Settings The NAS’s built-in clock should be adjusted to the current local time. This will insure accurate time reporting in the logs and file records. Select your GMT time zone and then enter the date and time. Click on Apply to make the changes. You can find your GMT time zone by double clicking on the clock located on the bottom right corner of your desktop.
User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER SNMP The SNMP agent allows users with SNMP client applications to conveniently inspect the network status of SA. Please follow the steps below to setup the SNMP agent. 1. Select the Enable radio button in the SNMP Agent field. 2. Enter the Community Name. Note that the agent side and the client side must use the same community name. 3. Enter the contact information in System Contact field. For example, the phone number or the email account of the administrator. 4.
User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER System Reports When you select System Reports in the left menu of the web page, four configuration items appear including; System Information, System Log, URL Log, and DHCP Lease Report. Please refer to the corresponding section for these configuration items.
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User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER The System Information displays some useful information about the system. It shows the firmware version, the system up time and the internal and external network connections. On SA, We have one WAN port and four LAN ports. The WAN port belongs to the external network interface and the LAN port belongs to the internal network interface. They are described as below: Firmware Version: 2.
User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER System Log Use the information provided here to help diagnose any network related issues. Navigate through the history with these buttons. You can clear the event logs under the Administrator settings page. URL Log The URL Log function records the recent connections for each client. If you would like to view what the user is browsing, you can click the corresponding Destination URL in the rightmost column.
User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER DHCP Lease Report The DHCP Lease Report function reports all leased IP provided by DHCP server. From this page, you can find out which host was assigned to which IP address. You can clear all the records through administrator settings. Please refer to the section 7.1, Clear DHCP Lease.
User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER User Management The NAS provides a client/server environment for users to share files over the network. File sharing works by authorizing the users or groups to access shared folders by their username and password. When creating a new shared folder, user and groups from the current list must be assigned. When a user/group tries to access the folder, the system will check the list of valid users for the shared folder.
User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER Highlight a user name and click on Remove or Modify to delete or change user information. Groups After creating the users, you can categorize the users into different groups to make assignment easier. Click on Add to create a new group name.
User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER Enter the group name Highlight the user(s) on the right side and click on the Å button to assign the user(s) to the group. Highlight multiple users by holding down the Shift key or Ctrl key while selecting users. Select users on the left side and click on the Æ button to remove them from the group. When complete, click the Apply button. NAS Management Manage the main functions of the shared storage from this menu.
User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER RAID Initialization Wizard The first time you use the NAS, you may have to initialize the hard disk. The wizard provides an easy way to initialize the hard disk. By enabling SMART, the NAS will report when the hard drive is about to fail. Your hard drive must support this feature. The HD Power Management should be enabled to prolong the life of the hard drive.
User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER Select the type of RAID you want to apply above then click on the icon to begin the initialization process. Click OK to the warning message to continue the process. Enter the workgroup name, description and initial share folder name. The workgroup name should be the same one that the computers accessing the NAS are on. Windows 2000/XP users can use a different workgroup name if desired. Click Next to continue.
User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER You must assign at least one user to this share folder. (1) Highlight the user on the list to the right, (2) select the permission you want them to have: Read/Write or 1 Read Only, (3) click on the Å button to move the user over to the Allowing User List. 3 2 Highlight users on the left list and select the Æ button to remove them from the share or change their permissions. Click Next to continue. The progress of the initialization will be displayed.
User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER Disk size will be shown in size field column as illustrated in Figure 3.8a Figure 3.8a After initializing to RAID 1 (Mirror), you should see a screen similar to Figure 3.8b where total size is the same as the original hard disk size. If the size of Disk 1 and Disk 2 is different, then RAID 1’s total size would automatically select the smaller one as its baseline. However, we suggest you to use the same size when choosing RAID 1. Figure 3.
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User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER When Powerful Server detect hard drive in “Not Active” mode, RAID will not be activated (Figure 3.8e). Figure 3.8e As long as there’s a hard disk either in “Not Active” mode or in initialization process, user would be able to execute RAID initialization. You will see a screen similar to Figure 3.8f shown on your screen where the button would be disabled in grayish color. Figure 3.
User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER USB HD Information Each of formatted partitions (FAT32, EXT2 and EXT3) on the attached USB storage drive will be shown in the USB HD information page. The naming rule for “Mounting path” is based on the connecting port. For example, if the USB hard drive was attached on port A and here are three formatted primary partitions on the disk, theAIRIS Power Serverwill create "USBHDA1" and "USBHDA2" mounting path to represent each partition space.
User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER Erase CD/DVD Before you erase CD/DVD-RW disc, the current media information will be shown as the picture on the right side. The most important thing is you can know how much data have been stored in this disc. When you press the “Apply” button on the “Current Media Information” page, the warning dialog will be pop-up , it will remind you all data will be destroyed after erasing the disc.
User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER Next, you can select files to backup from the connected USB HD in the Step1 page. All available USB storage be shown in the USB HD List. Highlight the file(s) on the right side and click on the Å button to select the burning file. Select the files on the left side and click the Æ button to remove file from burning Files list. When complete, press the next to enter next step.
User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER Please wait the progress bar up to 100% and disc will be ejected automatically when the burning complete. Advanced Settings All the file protocols settings are located here. Disable any protocols not in use by the computers on the network to increase performance. Most users will not need to change any of the settings. Make sure to click on Apply after making any changes. Change the workgroup or NAS description.
User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER Linux users need to create NFS Mappings in order to connect to the NAS. Enable the Network File System and click on Add to create the mapping. Enter the Remote UID, IP, netmask and the local mapping user. Once complete, mount the share on the Linux machine.
User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER File Sharing For file sharing, you must create users and groups first. Use this to organize the data on the NAS. You can create private and public folders. By managing which users have access to the shares, users can only access information that they are allowed to. This access is the same whether they are accessing the share from the local network or through the Internet via FTP. Click on Add to create a new shared folder.
User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER — For USB Storage Sharing As mentioned above, each partition of the attached USB storage will be presented to one shared folder. So, if one USB storage device be plugged into A port and it have 2 partitions. The system create the USBHDA1 and USBHDA2 automatically and assigned the guest have read/write permission by default. FTP Server If you want to access files stored on your NAS from a remote location, the included FTP server is the easiest way.
User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER your NAS’s fixed IP address. Refer to the DDNS and port forwarding/virtual server chapter of your router manual for details. Enable the FTP server on the NAS. You can change the default FTP port in the same configuration screen. This is useful for making you FTP server less visible to users whom you do not want to grant access. Some networks also block the standard port 21 and may require you to change to a different port.
User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER Personal Web Server The Web Server settings are currently under 'Nas Management->Web Server'. Getting started Enable the web server by selecting the ‘Enable’ radio button. It will then create a shared folder called 'www'. Set the server port number to '80' if you want all default HTTP calls to go to your website. When you type in a URL address in a browser, the Internet automatically directs your browser to port 80 at that address.
User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER must use the WAN IP address to access the website, not the internal appliance IP address. If you have a domain name, then you can have the domain name company forward the domain to this static IP address. With a domain name, you do not have to remember the IP address, just the domain name.
User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER domain name, the e-mail address for ‘teacher’ is now ‘teacher@school.com’. DDNS e-mail addresses work in a similar manner. For example, if ‘teacher’ is the user on the appliance and the domain name (DDNS) is ‘school.dyndns.org’, then the e-mail address would then be ‘teacher@school.dyndns.org’. Sending and receiving e-mail You can use any POP e-mail type program to retrieve and send your e-mails. Windows includes MS Outlook Express as a standard application.
User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER Connect a USB Printer to the USB port on the back of the NAS and turn it on. Windows Neighborhood Locate the NAS device in My Network Places and select it by double clicking on the icon. Enter a valid user name and password when prompted. You will now see the printer port next to the shares for the device. Double click on the PortA printer icon and follow the instructions to install the printer driver at the local station.
User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER The following two pictures demonstrate how to setup the TCP/IP printer port under Windows 2K/XP. As mentioned before, if the printer connected to USB port A position, we will name it as “PortA”. So, when you want to setup LPR protocol, the “Queue name” should be filled with which port you plug in. And LPR Byte Counting Enabled is required. For the Raw mode, the port number 9100 is represented as “PortA” and 9101 is PortB , etc.
User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER Appendix A PPTP VPN (W2K and XP only) Important: Make sure that the subnet of your Appliance is different the network you are trying to connect from. For example: User’s office IP addresses are 192.168.1.x, set your Appliance to 192.168.2.1 Netmask 255.255.255.0. Make sure that you have created a user account and password on the Appliance for the users that you want to allow VPN access. Proceed to your appliance’s PPTP Settings under VPN Settings. 1.
User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER 6. Name your connection and select if you want to have an icon on your desktop. Click Finish when done. 7. Use the user name and password on your Appliance to log in. You should be able to see the Appliance in your network neighborhood now. You must initiate the VPN connection each time unless you selected otherwise. TIPS: If all you need is file transfer, we suggest using the FTP server feature, as it is faster and simpler.
User Manual Rev 1.0 AIRIS POWER SERVER Searching the Network for the NAS If you are not able to locate the NAS in the Network Neighborhood or My Network Places, you can try to search for it. Click Search under My Network Places. Enter the name of the NAS or the Fixed IP address if configured that way and click Search Now. All other company and/or products names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
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