Beta Tester Wanted (new Windows app for ReadyNAS)

Thanks gibxxi

Released NAS Herder Ver.0.8.5 .

Changes from Ver.0.8.4:

• Added Reboot function.


• Changed wording in Scan Dialog.


• Modified to automatically remove space(s) at the beginning or at the end of Admin Password.


• Fixed bugs in handling extraordinary result of RAIDar Protocol.

To use Reboot function, check [Enable Reboot NAS] in [Synchro] tab of Settings Dialog.

Reboot function working fine, Nice work emoacht. Happy Xmas! :)

Just stumbled on this thread - I'd love to use the software, unfortunately...

Can't get the prog to detect my 1100!

Running on 64 bit Win 7 Home Premium with SP1 and .NET 4 Extended and the firewall turned off. The 1100 is running 4.1.10.

Ping, Frontview and RAIDar work quite happily from pc but the NAS Herder scan fails to find the NAS. The logs appeared to be empty as well. I tried hard-coding the mac, ip etc into the NAS Herder config but still no joy :(

Turning on "Use SSL rather than RAIDar protocol" results in the NAS showing as online but no NAS data presents itself...

Am I missing something?

Thanks!

Andy B.

WOOHOOO Finally got it working! :D

And, as expected it's just what the doctor ordered...

It would appear that it doesn't like running on a system that has Oracle Virtual Box installed - have a sneaking feeling it gets confused by the Virtual Box Virtual Network "Cards".

I haven't reinstalled Virtual Box to see if it breaks it again yet, but I will sometime soon and post findings back here...

Andy B.

emoacht wrote:
Released NAS Herder Ver.0.8.5.

Thanks, it's very useful. One problem, though:

In Frontview on my Pro Pioneer, I see:

Temp SYS 49 C / 120 F [Normal 0-65 C / 32-149 F]
Temp CPU 19 C / 66 F [Normal 0-60 C / 32-140 F]

but in NAS Herder 0.85 I see:

CPU 49.0C
System 19.5C

Is it possible that you've accidentally swapped the two temperature inputs?

That's a frontview bug that has been reported before. And, think about it, cpu temp should always be higher than sys temp.

Steve

dsm1212 wrote:
That's a frontview bug that has been reported before. And, think about it, cpu temp should always be higher than sys temp.

Thanks, Steve. Yeah, I thought about that... And:

a) I don't think it's necessarily true that CPU temp must be higher than system temp -- there are a lot of things in the box that generate heat (the disk drives at 40 degrees C with all their thermal mass, for example), and most of those things run even when the CPU is idling, and
b) the "system" temp reported by NAS Herder instantly spikes whenever the CPU is heavily loaded, and just as quickly drops back to normal when the load is removed, but the "cpu" temp stays almost constant; when it does change, the slopes are more gradual and the amplitude is a lot lower.

Here's NAS Herder's graph of the last ten days:

The yellow trace, marked "System", spikes every four hours when rsnapshot does a "du" on a multi-million-file external USB drive (the big spike near the right edge of the graph is "updatedb" running on that drive). Meanwhile, the blue trace marked "CPU" hardly moves during those periods of high CPU load. Shouldn't the "CPU" graph behave like the "System" graph, and vice-versa?

Also, see the big dislocation midday on the 22nd? That's when I opened up the box and blew a ton of dust out of the fans. All the temperatures are lower afterward, but the "CPU" temperature is MUCH lower. Why would that be? I'd expect CPU temp to be very well-controlled by the tight feedback loop between the CPU and its huge heatsink/fan, and I'd expect the System temperature to be allowed to drift a lot more so long as it wasn't too close to the high-temperature limit. That's exactly opposite the behavior shown by the NAS Herder graph.

So... Maybe I'm missing something obvious (and please let me know if I am -- it's late here and maybe I'm just not thinking clearly), but to me it looks as though all signs point to the graphs being switched in NAS Herder rather than in Frontview.

Well, you may be right. Although it seems hard to believe the inside of this box is so hot. On real PC's the cpu core temps are usually higher, but maybe these slower CPU's it's not that case. The air blowing out of mine is not even warm, but frontview says the system temp is 55C right now so based on that and some other postings I thought it was wrong. I have SSH access, but I don't see what tool they are using to get these temps. The /proc support seems to be missing in Etch and the sensor tools are not installed.

Dust in the CPU fan/heatsink can have a big impact on CPU core temps so if you cleaned that out when it was bad I would not be surprised at an improvement.

On the other hand maybe they are just not measuring what we think they are. If that's the case then you are probably right.

steve

Hi,

I have ReadyNAS Duo v2 (ARM) using latest RAIDiator 5.3.7. I have been trying your application (Ver.0.8.5) in my Windows7(x64) PC, but "Shutdown" and "Reboot" commands (SSL) do not work (Other functions work well). Password (no spaces), Firewall (turned off), .NET Framewark 4.0 (Full version installed) were chacked. The log text descibes "Could not confirm that the command was accepted." Do these functions work with ARM version?

Thanks

Masato

zamboni wrote:
I just want something my peripheral vision can glance at - like my CPU temps/RAM/network. In any event, thanks for this effort! There is a Yahoo! Gadget, but I do not want to install it on my PC as I had issues with the Yahoo Gadget "engine" sucking memory & CPU on my previous XP install. Maybe that can be ported?

I just want to say I appreciate this app. I do wish there were a "gadget" for the desktop - but apparently MS killed Win7 gadgets July 2013. They still work, can get no more. MS says there's a "security hole", please upgrade to Win8. Um... NO!

I really wish there were a desktop gadget window showing the NAS status, but this is better than launching my browser, logging into my NAS and checking status.

Any upgrade plans - like emailing events? I've had a disk die, and not noticed for weeks since I rarely look where my NAS is. Maybe a threshold to force shutdown if a temp is reached (and email a specific address)?

Can it make coffee? 8)

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