Drobo 5N2 - Page 3

Drobo5N2 User Guide 3
1.3.6
Registering Your Drobo 5N2 .....................................................................................................................62
1.3.7 Getting Technical Support ..........................................................................................................................65
1.4 Using and Managing Your Drobo 5N2 ................................................................................... 67
1.4.1 Using Drobo Dashboard .............................................................................................................................68
1.4.1.1 Installing Drobo Dashboard ..................................................................................................................69
1.4.1.2 Keeping Your Software Up to Date ....................................................................................................81
1.4.1.3 Touring Drobo Dashboard .....................................................................................................................84
1.4.2 Logging On to a Drobo 5N2 .....................................................................................................................88
1.4.3 Logging Out of a Drobo 5N2 ....................................................................................................................89
1.4.4 Modifying the Administrator Username and Password .................................................................90
1.4.5 Renaming Your Drobo 5N2 .......................................................................................................................92
1.4.6 Safely Shutting Down Your Drobo 5N2 ................................................................................................93
1.4.6.1 Safely Shutting Down Your Drobo 5N2 Using Drobo Dashboard ........................................94
1.4.7 Restarting Your Drobo 5N2 .......................................................................................................................96
1.4.8 Resetting Your Drobo 5N2 .........................................................................................................................98
1.4.9 Blinking Lights to Test Connectivity .................................................................................................... 100
1.4.10 Enabling or Disabling the System Tray .............................................................................................. 101
1.5 Modifying Device Settings for Your Drobo 5N2 ................................................................... 102
1.5.1 Managing Auto-Discovery of Drobo 5N2 ......................................................................................... 103
1.5.1.1 Adding a Drobo 5N2 by Its IP Address ......................................................................................... 104
1.5.1.2 Enabling or Disabling a Drobo Device by Its IP Address ....................................................... 106
1.5.1.3 Enabling or Disabling Auto-Discovery of Drobo 5N2 ............................................................. 107
1.5.1.4 Removing a Drobo 5N2 by Its IP Address from the Discovery List ................................... 108
1.5.2 Enabling or Disabling Dual Disk Redundancy ................................................................................. 109
1.5.3 Modifying the Disk Drive Spin Down Time ...................................................................................... 111
1.5.4 Dimming the Lights on Your Drobo 5N2 .......................................................................................... 113
1.5.5 Setting Your Drobo 5N2 to Independent Network Mode or Network Interface Bonding
Mode 114
1.5.6 Configuring Network Settings (and IP Addresses) for Your Drobo 5N2 .............................. 115
1.5.7 Modifying the MTU Settings for Jumbo Frames ............................................................................ 117
1.6 Creating and Using Shares ................................................................................................... 119
1.6.1 Creating Shares ............................................................................................................................................ 121
1.6.2 Creating Users .............................................................................................................................................. 124