ZyXEL Communications NSA-220 User Manual

Chapter 4 Status Screen

NSA-220 User’s Guide

The following table describes the labels in this screen. 

Table 12   Status 

Status

Click Status to refresh the status screen statistics.

System Information

Server Name

This displays the name which helps you find the NSA on the network. 
Click the edit icon to go to the screen where you can configure this.

Model Name

This displays which model this NSA device is.

Firmware Version

This is the NSA firmware version. Click the update link to go to the 
Maintenance > Firmware Upgrade screen from which you can upload 
new firmware. Click the edit icon to go to the screen where you can 
upload new firmware.

MAC Address

This displays the NSA’s unique physical hardware address (MAC). You 
need the MAC address to register the product at myZyXEL.com. 
Customer support may also request it for troubleshooting purposes.

Media Server Status

This shows whether the media server function is enabled or disabled. It 
must be enabled for media clients to play content files stored on the NSA. 
Click the edit icon to go to the screen where you can configure this.

FTP Server Status

This shows whether the FTP server function is enabled or disabled. It 
must be enabled to use FTP file transfer to/from the NSA. Click the edit 
icon to go to the screen where you can configure this.

Web Publishing Status

This shows whether the Web server function is enabled or disabled. It 
must be enabled to use HTTP to access shares on the NSA. Click the edit 
icon to go to the screen where you can configure this.

Volume Status

A volume is a storage area on a single disk or spread across a number of 
disks within a single file system.

Internal Volume

This displays the volumes created on the hard drives installed in the NSA.

Create an Internal Volume This displays if there are no volumes created on the hard drive(s) installed 

in the NSA. Click this button to create a volume. See 

External Volume

This displays the volumes created on USB hard drives connected to the 
NSA. USB disks are numbered in the order that you insert USB devices.

Status

This icon indicates whether the volume is healthy, degraded, or down.

Name

This field shows the name for the volume. Read only displays for an 
external volume that uses Windows NTFS. This means the NSA can read 
the volume but can’t save files on it.

Configuration

This field (also known as Type) shows what type of data storage system 
(a RAID type or JBOD) an internal volume is using. 

File System

This field shows what file system an external (USB) volume is using.

Disk(s)

For internal drives, this shows which hard drive bays are included in the 
volume. For external drives, this field shows USB1 for the first external 
hard drive you connect to the NSA (regardless of which USB port) and 
USB2 for the second.

Disk Usage

This field shows total disk size, the percentage of the disk being used and 
the percentage that is available.

Active Sessions

This shows how many users are currently connected to the NSA. 

Type

This shows whether it’s a Windows/CIFS, web (web configurator), or FTP 
connection to the NSA.

Share Name

This displays the shared folder name on the NSA that the user is 
connected to for CIFS sessions and is blank for FTP sessions.