Exus QStor QMX 20 User manual

QStor QMX
Release: 1.0, 31.08.2011
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User Manual QMX Series
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THANK YOU
Thank you for choosing the QStor QMX video storage appliance! This user manual provides
detailed information on the setup and operation of your video recording & storage system.
This manual will e your reference and help you to quickly ecome familiar with all functions
of the QStor QMX. It will help you to customize the QStor QMX video storage appliance to
your exact requirements.
For the initial setup of the QStor QMX video storage appliance, please refer to the ‚Quick
Install Guide‘.
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Table of Contents
User Manual QMX Series ........................................................................................................ 1
THANK YOU ........................................................................................................................... 2
Ta le of Contents .................................................................................................................... 3
Section 1: Overview of the QStor QMX ................................................................................... 7
1.1. Prominent Features ...................................................................................................... 7
1.2. Technical Data .............................................................................................................. 9
QStor QMX Standard ....................................................................................................... 9
QStor QMX Pro ................................................................................................................ 9
Section 2: First Steps ............................................................................................................ 10
2.1. Setting up and Connecting the QStor QMX ................................................................ 10
2.2. Initial Setup via the We GUI ...................................................................................... 12
Section 3: The We Interface ................................................................................................ 19
3.1. Logging into the We Interface ................................................................................... 19
3.2. Menu Layout of the We Interface .............................................................................. 21
Section 4: The Mo otix Menu ................................................................................................ 23
4.1. Triggering Actions of Mo otix cameras ....................................................................... 24
4.2. Adding a Mo otix-Kamera via the Camera Wizard ...................................................... 25
Section 5: The System Menu ................................................................................................ 31
5.1. System Information ..................................................................................................... 31
5.2. Basic Settings ............................................................................................................. 32
5.2.1. Setting the Time ................................................................................................... 32
5.2.2. Setting the Hostname ........................................................................................... 33
5.2.3. Changing Passwords ........................................................................................... 34
5.2.4. Setting up a Swap Partition .................................................................................. 35
5.2.5. Selecting the Character Set .................................................................................. 36
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5.3. System Administration ................................................................................................ 36
5.3.1. Hardware Information ........................................................................................... 36
5.3.2. Activation .............................................................................................................. 37
5.3.3. Additional Licenses ............................................................................................... 38
5.3.4. Command Console ............................................................................................... 38
5.3.5. Backing Up System Settings ................................................................................ 39
5.3.6. Restoring System Settings ................................................................................... 39
5.3.7. Updating the System ............................................................................................ 40
5.3.8. Shutting Down the Server .................................................................................... 41
5.3.9. Re ooting the Server ........................................................................................... 41
5.4. Event Logs .................................................................................................................. 41
5.4.1. System Log .......................................................................................................... 41
5.4.2. Boot Log ............................................................................................................... 42
5.4.3. RAID Log .............................................................................................................. 42
5.4.4. UPS Log ............................................................................................................... 43
5.4.5. Log Files for Technical Support ............................................................................ 43
5.5. System Services ......................................................................................................... 44
5.5.1. Email Notification .................................................................................................. 45
5.5.2. Windows File Sharing ........................................................................................... 46
5.5.3. NFS Server .......................................................................................................... 47
5.5.4. APC UPS Service ................................................................................................. 47
5.6. Statistics ..................................................................................................................... 47
5.6.1. Network Statistics ................................................................................................. 48
5.6.2. Server Load .......................................................................................................... 49
5.7. Shutting Down / Re ooting ...................................................................................... 49
5.7.1. Shutting Down the Server .................................................................................... 49
5.7.2. Re ooting the Server ........................................................................................... 50
5.7.3. Configuring Automatic Shutdown ......................................................................... 50
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Section 6: Storage Management Menu ................................................................................. 51
6.1. Managing Network Shares .......................................................................................... 51
6.1.1. Network Shares .................................................................................................... 51
6.1.2. Network Shares Currently In Use ......................................................................... 52
6.1.3. Selecting the Logical Drive For Network Shares .................................................. 52
6.1.4. Creating a Network Share .................................................................................... 53
6.1.5. Modifying Network Shares .................................................................................... 54
6.1.6. Hiding a Network Share (Hidden from Windows Network Discovery) ................... 55
6.1.7. Removing a Network Share .................................................................................. 56
6.2. Hard Disks .................................................................................................................. 57
6.2.1. Hard Disk Information ........................................................................................... 57
6.2.2. S.M.A.R.T. ............................................................................................................ 58
6.2.3. Initializing a Hard Disk .......................................................................................... 58
6.2.4. Deactivating a Hard Disk ...................................................................................... 58
6.3. Software RAID ............................................................................................................ 59
6.3.1. RAID Status ......................................................................................................... 60
6.3.2. Creating a RAID ................................................................................................... 61
6.3.3. Deleting a RAID ................................................................................................... 62
6.3.4. Designating Spare Drives (Hot Spares) / Repairing a RAID ................................. 62
6.3.5. Expanding a RAID ................................................................................................ 64
6.4. Hardware RAID Manager ............................................................................................ 64
Section 7: Access Control Menu ............................................................................................ 65
7.1. Access Control ............................................................................................................ 65
7.1.1. Displaying or Modifying Local Users / Groups Who May Access a Network Share
....................................................................................................................................... 65
7.1.2. Displaying or Modifying Domain Users / Groups Who May Access a Network
Share ............................................................................................................................. 67
7.2. Users and Groups ....................................................................................................... 68
7.2.1. User Administration .............................................................................................. 68
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7.2.2. Local Group Administration .................................................................................. 72
Section 8: Network ................................................................................................................ 75
8.1. Network ...................................................................................................................... 75
8.1.1. Network Status ..................................................................................................... 75
8.1.2. Domain and Workgroup ........................................................................................ 75
8.1.3. TCP/IP Settings .................................................................................................... 78
8.1.4. DNS / WINS Settings ........................................................................................... 79
8.1.5. Hosts File Editor ................................................................................................... 80
8.1.6. Bundling Network Ports ........................................................................................ 80
8.1.7. Ping ...................................................................................................................... 82
8.2. APC UPS .................................................................................................................... 82
8.2.1. APC UPS Status .................................................................................................. 83
8.2.2. Configuring a USB-Attached UPS ........................................................................ 83
8.2.3. Configuring a Network-Attached UPS .................................................................. 84
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Section 1: Overview of t e QStor QMX
1.1. Prominent Features
QStor QMX is the most relia le and, at the same time, the most technically advanced
solution for storing high resolution video data in a network. QStor QMX offers many
advantages:
•Professional Integrated System with Mo otix Cameras
Together with current Mo otix network cameras, the QStor QMX implements a well-
rounded, comprehensive high-end solution. Mo otix is the world’s leading
manufacturer of high resolution video systems.
As a high-end network storage appliance, QStor QMX provides a Giga it Ethernet
connection and a POSIX-compliant operating system optimized for video surveillance,
which contains the know-how from seven years of OEM product experience.
Therefore, videos stored on QStor QMX can e very effectively archived and
accessed within the network.
•RAID Hardware Like a Professional Server
It is not merely the well-engineered operating system that turns the QStor QMX into a
perfect choice for video surveillance – this professional storage server also excels in
the hardware department. High-performance, server-grade processor technology, a
minimum of 2 GB RAM as well as a NAS harddisk system that is optimized for 24/7
operation and offers numerous RAID modes turn the QStor QMX into a performance
champion.
•Installation in 5 Easy Steps
Add easy setup and operation to uncomprimising performance: The QStor QMX can
e set up without special network know-how and can e deployed in ut a few
minutes. There are just five easy steps: Un ox, setup, IP adress configuration, run
our installation wizard and you´re all set!
•Automatic Setup via a Wizard
The comforta le setup wizard dramatically reduces the setup time – each and every
camera is integrated into the network automatically, which o viates manual
configuration. Especially installations with lots of video cameras enefit from this time-
saving feature. Fine-tuning of individual cameras can then e done quickly and
comforta ly via the one-click We GUI.
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•Optimal Support For Any Network: Individual IP Adress, NFS, SMB,
Bonjour
QStor QMX supports all common network protocols: Scanning the network is done via
Bonjour, writing is done via NFS and reading is done via SMB. Each video camera
receives its own IP address in the network and is assigned its very own NFS share.
Alternatively, the QStor QMX can also e accessed y the Mo otix management
software.
•Two Product Lines For Eac Situation: Standard und Pro
The QStor QMX product family consists of two product lines, ‚Standard‘ and ‚Pro‘, and
features 4 to 12 hard disks with 500 GB, 1 TB or 2 TB each. Server appliances in the
‚Standard‘ line are intended for small deployments, take up very little space and
feature a software RAID. The total num er of cameras is intentionally limited in the
‚Standard‘ line, so that ‚Standard‘ server appliances will perform exactly as intended
and performance ottlenecks can e avoided.
The ‚Pro‘ line, however, is est suited for rack mount applications and takes up 1U or
2U, depending on the model. In contrast to the ‚Standard‘ line, the num er of
cameras that can e attached is unlimited. In addition, the ‚Pro‘ line features high-
end, server-grade computer hardware: Redundant power supplies and a hardware
RAID controller card with a dedicated RAID chip, which supports several different
RAID levels. The ‚Pro‘ devices can also e cascaded and support ‚ onding‘, i.e. their
network ports can e tied together.
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1.2. Technical Data
QStor QMX Standard
Product Line QStor QMX Standard
Model QMX 20 QMX 40 QMX 45 QMX 1040 QMX 1045 QMX 2085
Form Factor Cu e Cu e Cu e 1 U Rackmount 2 U Rackmount
Num er of
Harddisk 2 4 4 4 4 8
Capacity per
Harddisk 500 GB, 1 TB oder 2 TB
Num er of
Cameras
Supported
5 10 25 25 40 40
RAID Type MD-RAID
Supported RAID
Level 0, 1, 5 0, 1, 5, 10 0, 1, 5, 6, 10
Network
Protocols NFS, SMB, Bonjour
Network
Connection 2x 1G it Ethernet
Special Features Extremely quiet due to fanless
operation 20“ Short Rack
QStor QMX Pro
Product Line QStor QMX Pro
Model QMX 1040+ QMX 2120+ QMX 2120 JBOD
Form Factor Short-Rackmount
(1 HE, 50 cm Tiefe) Rackmount (2 HE)
Num er of Harddisk 4 12
Capacity per Harddisk 500 GB, 1 TB oder 2 TB
Num er of Cameras
Supported un egrenzt
RAID Type Hardware-RAID
Supported RAID Level 0, 1, 5, 6, 50, 60 JBOD
Network Protocols NFS, SMB, Bonjour
Network Connection 2x 1G it Ethernet
Special Features Redundantes Netzteil, Kaskadier ar, Bonding-fähig
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Section 2: First Steps
QStor QMX and Mo otix cameras integrate seamlessly into a self-contained system. In this
system, the QStor QMX acts as the control center which controls all connected cameras.
2.1. Setting up and Connecting the QStor QMX
Please follow these five steps to correctly configure the system:
1. Put the QStor QMX and all cameras at their respective designated locations and
connect all devices to the uilding power supply, using the enclosed power plugs.
Depending on the camera model, it may alternatively e possi le to supply power to
the camera via the network itself (PoE). Please refer to the camera manual a out this.
2. Then connect all devices to the network. Attach a key oard, a mouse and a monitor
to the QStor QMX. The respective connectors can e found at the rear of the server
appliance.
PS/2 connectors for mouse and key oard are located at the very left side (1) and the
lue connector for a VGA monitor can e found at position (2), to the left of the two
Ethernet ports, which are located at the very right side of the connector panel.
Important: Connect the QStor QMX to the network via the left Ethernet port. It is
marked with a green dot. Connecting the left Ethernet port to the network is required
to e a le to reach the QStor QMX via the network.
3. Connect the Mo otix cameras to your network. The QStor QMX as well as the
Mo otix cameras ship with IP addresses preconfigured to the ‚10.‘ network, which
should save you a lot of time. In most cases, it should not e necessary to change
network addresses.
Note: In order for all cameras to e found, Zeroconf (Bonjour) must e ena led on
each camera. After verifying this, please proceed with the configuration of the QStor
QMX.
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4. After turning on the QStor QMX, its integrated console appears. It is used to configure
all important network settings for the appliance. The console always displays the
currently configured IP addresses for oth network ports (1). Network settings can e
changed via the menu in the ottom half of the screen (2).
The QStor QMX defaults to the following IP address settings for its two network ports:
Port IP Address Su net Mask
ETH0 (left side, marked with a green dot) 10.10.10.10 255.0.0.0
ETH1 (right side) 10.10.10.11 255.0.0.0
5. After connecting all devices and configuring the network settings as descri ed a ove,
you can launch the camera detection scan via the We GUI wizard.
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2.2. Initial Setup via the eb GUI
The We GUI of the QStor QMX is used for the detailed system configuration. Cameras that
are connected to the network can e attached to the server appliance via a We GUI wizard.
The We GUI works on all major we rowsers, for instance Microsoft Internet Explorer and
Mozilla Firefox. We recommend using the latter.
Logging into t e System
Point your rowser to the IP address of the QStor QMX that you have previously configured
via the VGA console screen. QStor QMX shows the following screen:
Click on the ‚Login‘ utton to log on. For your initial We GUI session, the defaults for user
name and password are:
User name: admin
Password: qmx
The We GUI of the QStor QMX is split into two sections: At the left side of the screen, the
main menu appears, showing the following menu items: ‚Mo otix‘ - ‚System‘ – ‚Storage
Management‘ – ‚Access Control‘ – ‚Network‘
The contents of the currently selected su menu appear on the right side of the screen. How
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to configure the cameras via the We GUI is shown in the Quickstart Guide. Please consult
the User Manual for help with all other configuration actions.
Configuring a Swap Partition and a Network S are
Prior to setting up the cameras via the wizard, oth a swap partition and a network share
should e configured. The start screen of the We GUI will remind you that swap partition
and/or network share have not een configured yet.
Hint: Clicking on the word ‚ ere‘ in any of the reminder notices will redirect you directly to
the configuration screen for the swap partition (section 5.2.4.) and the network shares
(section 6.1.), respectively. Of course, oth configuration screens can also e reached from
the main menu.
- Configuring a network share: Click on the word ‚ ere‘ in the notice window.
Alternatively, click on ‚Network Share Administration‘ in the main menu and on ‚Create
New Network Share‘ in the su menu that appears. Configure a share name and its
size in Giga ytes. After clicking on ‚Create Network Share‘, QStor QMX will create
the share.
- Configuring a swap partition: Click on the word ‚here‘ in the notice window.
Alternatively, click on ‚Basic System Settings‘ in the main menu and select the field
‚Swap Partition‘. In the next window, enter the size of the swap partition in
Mega ytes. The size of the swap partition should e approximately 1.5 times the
RAM size, ut not more than 2 GB. After clicking on ‚Create Swap Partition‘, QStor
QMX will create the swap partition.
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Configuring Cameras wit t e Camera Wizard
Configuring new cameras can e easily done via the camera wizard. We will illustrate how
this is done on the following pages.
1. In the main menu, click on the menu item ‚Mo otix‘ and then on the item ‚MX Config‘.
The system now reads in the parameters of all connected cameras and displays them
in a convenient ta le. (During initial setup, however, there isn’t anything to display
yet.)
2. You can conveniently configure a new camera via the camera wizard, y clicking on
the utton ‚Camera Wizard‘ in the ‚MX Config‘ window. After clicking on ‚Next‘, the
server egins to scan the network for newly added cameras. This operation may take
several minutes.
Please note: In order for the QStor QMX appliance to e a le to interoperate with
Mo otix cameras, it needs to ‚get to know‘ each one and retrieve its settings. This is
done y adding cameras either manually, or automatically via the camera wizard. The
QStor QMX will not change camera settings, only retrieve them.
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3. The wizard now displays a list of newly detected cameras. If you want to prevent a
camera from eing imported, please deselect the check mark in the ‚Import‘ column
on the respective camera line. Once you are done with this, click on ‚Import Selected
Cameras‘.
4. In order to e a le to configure the cameras, please provide the cameras‘
administration password on the next screen of the wizard. As noted in the dialog
window, all cameras will e configured via one and the same administration
password. (In case administration passwords were different among cameras, you
would have to configure each group of cameras that share the same password one
y one.) After entering the password, click on ‚Next‘.
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5. The camera wizard allows you to reconfigure the IP address range of your cameras.
In this case, the wizard will assign a new IP address to each and every camera, not
just to the ones selected in the previous step, and re oot them. Click on ‚Next‘ to
configure new IP addresses. In case you do not want to change the IP address range,
click on ‚Skip‘.
If you clicked on ‚Next‘, please configure the IP address range and, optionally, a
gateway in the next window. Then click ‚Next‘ to proceed.
6. Now configure a suita le IP address and target network share for the camera
recording data. In case no network share has een configured yet, the field ,Target
Network Share‘ will e empty. You can create a network share y selecting the menu
item ‚Network Share Administration‘ in the main menu and then clicking on „Create
New Network Share‘.
After entering the IP address and the target network share, click on ‚Next‘ to proceed.
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7. Do you want to configure the recording parameters of the cameras right here in the
wizard? If so, the wizard allows you to do that and you can now enter important
parameters such as image resolution, image quality, recording times and the
maximum recording size.
8. Depending on the scale of your camera deployment, it may take some time until the
wizard has transmitted all entered setup parameters to each and every device.
Hence, the second-to-final window of the wizard gives you the option whether you
want to e notified of configuration start and configuration end y email.
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In order to ena le that, enter the email settings that are valid within your network into
the respective entry fields, then click ‚Next‘. If you want to opt out of receiving email
notifications, click ‚Skip‘ instead.
9. In order for camera recordings to start and end at the precise time that has een
configured, the cameras need to receive their time information from the QStor QMX
appliance. If you want the storage server to provide the time to all cameras, and thus
operate completely synchronous with the cameras, click on ‚Yes‘ here.
10. Now the MX Config wizard has all necessary information to actually egin configuring
your cameras. As soon as this configuration has completed, you can list and inspect
your cameras in the We GUI under menu item ‚MX Config‘. In case you have
configured email notification, you will also receive a status report y email at that
time.
You can modify camera settings at any time y clicking on the gear icon in column
‚Action‘. Column ‚Action‘ also allows you to do other things: Clicking on the ‚Play‘ icon
will show you the live feed of the camera in a new window and clicking on the red
circle will manually start recording. You can also delete a camera that is no longer
needed y clicking on the room icon.
Once you have completed all steps of the configuration, QStor QMX will automatically
commence the recording operation y storing video data at the network share which
you have configured.
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Section 3: T e Web Interface
The We interface that is integrated into the QStor QMX is the ‚command center‘ of the
appliance. Each and every system setting can e configured in detail here. One part of this
is, for instance, camera installation and configuration, which is discussed in section 2. The
we interface also allows configuration access to all settings that are relevant for a network
storage appliance, such as storage management, access control, network configuration and
querying system statistics as well as alert notices.
The we interface works with all current we rowsers , including Microsoft Internet Explorer
and Mozilla Firefox. We recommend the latter.
3.1. Logging into the eb Interface
Point your rowser to the IP address of the storage appliance that you have previously
configured on the VGA console. QStor QMX will show the login screen:
Click on the ‚Login‘ utton to log on. Now, the We interface asks for the user name and
password.
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