NSA-2400 Network Storage Appliance Quick Start Guide Version 1.
NSA-2400 Quick Start Guide Overview The NSA-2400 (the NSA) is a network storage device for file sharing, data backup and data protection in small (home) offices and/or medium-sized offices. This guide shows you how to: 1 Install hard drives 2 Make NSA Connections 3 Access the NSA using NDU (NSA Discovery Utility) or your web browser 4 Set up the NSA using the wizard 5 Map the NSA to a network drive from any computer Note: See the User’s Guide for more details and specifications on the NSA.
NSA-2400 Quick Start Guide 2 Pull out the latch and grip the sides of the tray to remove disk tray 1. Be careful not to break the latch. Disk bay 1 is labelled on your NSA (the top-left bay). 3 Place the disk tray on a flat surface with the panel facing up. Place a hard disk with the screw holes facing up on the same surface and slide it into the disk tray. Secure it with the screws as shown. 4 Push the top of the tray back into NSA disk bay 1 until it snaps into place and push the latch up as shown.
NSA-2400 Quick Start Guide 2 Connect one end of the power cord to the power socket on the rear of the NSA and the other end to the external power supply. Connect the external power supply to a power outlet. 3 Turn on the power by pressing in the power button on the front of the NSA. Look at the front panel lights. The PWR light turns steady green. The SYS light turns steady green after the NSA has booted successfully (it takes about 50 seconds).
NSA-2400 Quick Start Guide 2 The NDU installation wizard begins. Follow the installer instructions. Click Finish to complete the installation. 3 In Windows XP, click start, All Programs, ZyXEL NSA-2400, ZyXEL NSA-2400 Discovery Utility to run the NDU. For other Windows operating systems, procedures should be similar. If your computer has more than one network card, then you will first be prompted to select a network interface card.
NSA-2400 Quick Start Guide 3 Right-click Local Area Connection and then click Properties. 4 Select Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) (under the General tab in Win XP) and click Properties. 5 The Internet Protocol TCP/IP Properties screen opens (the General tab in Windows XP). 6 Select the Use the following IP address and enter an IP address from 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.254 excluding 192.168.1.3 (the NSA) and any other IP addresses in this range already being used by a device on your network.
NSA-2400 Quick Start Guide 3 The web browser client uses certificates to authenticate the NSA. The default NSA certificate will most likely show a name and certification authority mis-match; however encryption is still performed. Click Yes to proceed. 4 When you access the NSA web configurator, the login screen appears. The default user name and password are ‘admin’ and ‘1234’ respectively. Click Login. 5 It is recommended that you change the default password.
NSA-2400 Quick Start Guide 6 The first time you access the NSA web configurator, you are prompted to run the setup wizard. Click Run Setup Wizard. 4.1 Setup Wizard Each time you click Next in the wizard, your settings are saved to the NSA. Click Back to return to a previous screen in the wizard. 1 Click Next to begin the wizard. 2 If you want to change the network settings of the NSA, click Modify Network Settings. You can also do this using the NDU (recommended).
NSA-2400 Quick Start Guide 4.1.1 Disk Setup Wizard 3 This screen is the Disk Setup Wizard (this screen can be accessed separately from the main NSA screen). Skip this wizard to have the NSA use the current or default volume configuration. • Choose RAID 1 if you have two or four disks in the NSA; half the disk space is used for data backup. If you have four disks, you could choose RAID 5 where data parity and striping allow you to recover data even if one disk fails.
NSA-2400 Quick Start Guide • Disk data is lost if you reconfigure a volume. Select the I Understand... checkbox and then click Apply to save the Disk Setup Wizard settings. You now return to the main installation wizard. 4.1.2 Return to Main Wizard 4 The next screen allows you to enable FTP on the NSA. You can use FTP and/or Windows explorer (CIFS) to transfer files to or from the NSA.
NSA-2400 Quick Start Guide 5 You must configure email address(es), an e-mail server and how often the NSA should send alerts in this screen. An alert is an event, such as hard disk failure, that may require your immediate attention. 6 Select a time server and a time zone in this screen. The NSA updates its date and time from the time server. This time is used in NSA log and alert time stamps.
NSA-2400 Quick Start Guide 7 Add users that may access the NSA in this screen. The NSA can import users from an external domain controller or you can add users on the NSA. If you have an external domain controller, select Join a Domain Server. To create users on the NSA, select Create My Own Local Users. • Local Users: Click add to configure each new local user and then click Next to mass create them all on the NSA.
NSA-2400 Quick Start Guide • Domain: Choose NT4 Domain if your server uses a Windows NT operating system. Choose Active Directory Domain if it uses a Windows 2000 or later operating system. Type the IP address of the Windows server domain controller, the Windows domain administrator (Administrator is the default) and an associated password. You can use a domain name if the server uses an operating system earlier than Windows 2000, 8 Click Finish for the NSA to complete the configuration.
NSA-2400 Quick Start Guide • If you deleted the default volume and didn’t create another volume, or you don’t have an internal hard disk installed, you will see the following Maintenance Mode screen. In Maintenance Mode, you MUST create an internal volume. Note: You must install at least one hard disk and create an internal volume before you can use external USB hard drive(s) with the NSA. 9 The next time you log into the NSA, you go directly to the Status Overview screen.
NSA-2400 Quick Start Guide Click Tools, Map Network Drive. Select the network drive that you want to map NSA to from the Drive list box and browse to the share on the NSA (Public is the only one available if you have not created shares on the NSA yet). You can then simply drag files from/to your local computer’s drives to or from this network folder.
NSA-2400 Quick Start Guide 6 Troubleshooting PROBLEM CORRECTIVE ACTION None of the LEDs turn on when Make sure that the NSA is turned on. you connect the power. Check that there are no loose cable connections, that there are no faulty cables and that Ethernet cable connections do not exceed 100m. Make sure that you have the power cord connected to an active power source. If the LEDs still do not turn on, you may have a hardware problem. In this case, you should contact your local vendor.
