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How can I find out what my NAS is doing?
I just updated to the latest firmware release, 6.4.2. Everything went as expected. It (ReadyNAS 516) is now doing something, as it sounds like there's a lot of disk activity. If I go to System > Perf...
Hello everytime,
It can be checked from the system logs, however, the logs isn't that easy to understand. When you download system logs, you will see multiple notepad files, look for System.log,
Regards,
JennC, thank you. I know I can look at the logs and I've done that from time to time. I never thought of them as a real-time device.
But, since they document when everything starts and stops I can see how they can be useful. I just thought there'd be a real-time "activity monitor" that might be updated every five or ten seconds to see what functions are running at any one time as well as the amount of RAM they take up.
The logs work, though.
Thanks.
everytime wrote:
JennC, thank you. I know I can look at the logs and I've done that from time to time. I never thought of them as a real-time device.
But, since they document when everything starts and stops I can see how they can be useful. I just thought there'd be a real-time "activity monitor" that might be updated every five or ten seconds to see what functions are running at any one time as well as the amount of RAM they take up.
The logs work, though.
Thanks.
It would be useful to have a monitor like that.
A small dashboard that shows
-disk spindown status
-cpu and disk i/o load
-what backup job is running (if any)
-what maintenance operations are running (if any)
Maybe even a way to provide top w/o ssh enabled???
Maybe post something in the "ideas for storage" subforum, so Netgear can gauge interest.
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