QNAP TS-109 Turbo Station NAS Review - PAGE 11

The System Tools Web Page

The “System Tools” screen has a pile of sub-screens:

•    Alert Notification
•    Restart/Shutdown
•    Hardware Settings
•    UPS
•    System Update
•    Change Logo
•    Remote Replication
•    Backup/Restore/Reset Settings
•    IP Filter
•    Network Recycle Bin
•    Remote Login

Alert notifications are pretty flexible, you can choose between:

• no notification emails
• critical notifications only
• critical and warning notifications

You can specify the email servers IP address, enable SMTP authentication with a user name and password, and supply up to two email addresses - along with a handy send test email function.

You can obviously restart and shut down your server.

For hardware settings, you can enable the configuration reset switch, a hard disk standby mode with various timeouts, a "low on space" LED warning light when there is less than the specified free space left, and even set auto power on after unexpected power loss.

There is also decent UPS support - the TS-109 Pro can try to detect the UPS model and its IP address, and you can test it from here.

If you download new firmware from www.qnap.com, you can easily update your NAS from this screen.

If you really want to replace the QNAP logo, you can here. A corporate logo could go here, perhaps.

You can create, edit and delete remote replication jobs.

You can also backup and restore your settings - so if you want to be safe, backup your current configuration before making changes with the web administration screens.

The IP filter screen lets you allow or deny connections based on IP addresses.

A neat feature is a "Network Recycle Bin" - if enabled, any file you delete from the NAS will be stored here temporarily so you can undo those "OOPS!" moments.

Ahh... one of my favorites.

I really appreciate that QNAP has not tried to hide the fact that the TS-109 Pro is actually a small Linux server - as a matter of fact, you can enable both telnet and ssh access to it. They even placed telnetd on a non-standard port -- yet another nice touch on the QNAP TS-109.