Issue:
Network Attached Storage Support for NetBotz Version 2 Monitoring Appliances
Product Line:
Netbotz
Environment:
NetBotz Version 2 appliances
Cause:
NetBotz 500’s and 420's can store alert, sensor, and visual data persistently to a remote network drive (NAS) by integrating into an existing storage network/device using the popular SMB (there is no support for SMB2), CIFS, or NFS remote file sharing protocols. The ability to use Network Attached Storage is only enabled with a Premium Software Module license key which is obtained by purchasing an extended warranty.
Resolution:
NAS Support Specifications:
NAS Storage uses the following protocols:
Network Attached Storage Support for NetBotz Version 2 Monitoring Appliances
Product Line:
Netbotz
Environment:
NetBotz Version 2 appliances
Cause:
NetBotz 500’s and 420's can store alert, sensor, and visual data persistently to a remote network drive (NAS) by integrating into an existing storage network/device using the popular SMB (there is no support for SMB2), CIFS, or NFS remote file sharing protocols. The ability to use Network Attached Storage is only enabled with a Premium Software Module license key which is obtained by purchasing an extended warranty.
Resolution:
NAS Support Specifications:
- Supported on NetBotz 500 prior to Botzware version 2.6 and on the NetBotz 420 starting at Botzware 2.6
- Similar behavior to USB based Extended Storage System, once enabled, alerts and historical data are accessed as normal ( alerts view, graph view, etc)
- Option to set limit on amount of space to used
- Maximum of 5000 objects can be stored
- This limit only exists on Botzware 2.4x and below. It was changed on version 2.5 and is now only limited by disk space
- Objects = alerts and alert ‘attachments’
- An alert with attached video clip and graph counts as 3 objects
- Sensor readings can be kept longer, not affected by object limit; only limited by disk space
NAS Storage uses the following protocols:
SMB & CIFS:
- SMB: Server Message Block, a communication protocol that is used to transfer files, printers and other resources between computers on a network. (Original Windows file sharing protocol)
- CIFS: Common Internet File System, this protocol is the successor to SMB. CIFS implements all of SMB’s features with more stringent security, fault tolerance, and increased performance.
- SMB & CIFS are commonly used to connect Windows PC’s and Windows to UNIX/Linux servers/clients.
- Network File System, similar to SMB & CIFS, NFS is another protocol that enables the file system on a remote system to be accessible on the local system.
- NFS is more common in the UNIX world allowing UNIX/Linux servers to share files/folders more easily.
Released for:APC Netherlands
