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Aspirant

Sep 19, 2016

out-of-band management options for ReadyNAS

Hello, We are looking at mid-business type of readyNAS that can provide support for out-of-band management. We cannot find any documentation in the internet that can do so. We are aware that the ...

NETGEAR Expert

Sep 19, 2016

ReadyNAS provides management services on any connected address. ReadyNAS offers services like WebDAV which would require you to access the HTTP/HTTPS ports. There's no way for you to turn off management services on one NIC but not another.

ReadyNAS OS 6.6 will offer VLAN support to add multiple VLANs, but that doesn't enable/disable management per VLAN.

This feature is not in ReadyNAS because it has not been highly requested.

mdgm-ntgr

NETGEAR Employee Retired

Sep 19, 2016

You could post this to the Ideas Exchange if you like if it's not already there.

StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Sep 19, 2016
mdgm wrote:

You could post this to the Ideas Exchange if you like if it's not already there.

I agree. A built-in way to put iscsi traffic on a dedicated LAN port is related, and maybe could be done through the same mechanism.

I posted an idea here: https://community.netgear.com/t5/Idea-Exchange-for-ReadyNAS/Easy-way-to-dedicate-NICs-for-specific-purposes/idi-p/1141692

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- CharlieA_ECTP
  Aspirant
  Sep 20, 2016
  Hello Netgear Community,
  
  Thanks for your replies.
  
  Let me just offer one clarification concerning out-of-band management. Out-of-band management should provide a separate console or a separate GUI or a separate web access that will still run when everything is f*ck3d up. One good example is HP's iLO feature. Even the free unlicensed HP iLO can provide you with a simple button to remotely power cycle the server or storage that has hung.
  
  Having this capability to do remotely is a definite need for global MNC offices such as ours.
  
  Placing the out-of-band management ip address in a different VLAN is optional and is simply for organization and simplified management of similar out-of-band process of all other devices.
  
  Has someone here made any particular workaround or hack to probably have a somehow out-of-band management feature from the current readyNAS devices? If yes, please do let me know. Thanks.
  
  Charlie