Facilis Management Console
Facilis Management Console: Total Contol Over Your Environment
The Facilis Management Console gives you total control over your shared storage environment. Create, change and permission project-based storage volumes, and deploy them to the desktops of the facility workstations with the push of a button. Monitor real-time bandwidth usage by workstation and volume and apply the optimal server and client connections dynamically. Do all this with no added complexity and no IT training required.
Log in securely to manage the workgroup from any browser, on any device that can access the server IP address. Set up user and group look-up with your active directory server for a single point of user account administration, or apply permissions based on desktop user account and/or secure user/password. This is just one of the many features that come with our video storage servers. Get a detailed demonstration today!
- Smart Access Rules for File System Integrity: Access Control Lists (ACLs) are difficult to manage and deploy in a post environment. Smart Access Rules works with your applications, and is qualified to maintain file integrity even when applications are accessing and changing data.
- Encryption for WAN and LAN Clients:
- Secure mount and control modes for both wide-area and local-area networks with encryption and authentication.
- Client workstations given unique IDs that can't be replicated, and every workstation must be authorized to use the server prior to gaining any access to the storage volumes.
- Encryption and security are enabled through AES, XTS, SHA2, RSA and PBKDFv2 protocols.
- Per-Volume RAID6 with up to Four-Drive Failure: Facilis HUB drive set is virtualized at the block level through software.
- Enables the creation of project-based volumes on the fly as the workflow requires.
- Each virtual volume can be customized with a different RAID level for drive failure.
- When using the highest level of RAID6-4, up to four (4) drives can fail in a drive group without any loss of data.
- Bandwidth Priority for Critical Workflows: Every client workstation has full access to their connection speed, until a bottleneck is detected in the network. Bandwidth Priority will keep important jobs running at full speed while throttling lower priority clients if necessary.
- Browser-Based Administration:
- Admin Console is an application that is opened on the server, and can be accessed on any client workstation with Client console installed and the proper admin credentials.
- Access all administrative functions as well as access control using standard browsers on any OS or mobile device using touch-screen enabled features.
- Automatic Connectivity Failover: When the server is available over multiple network paths, the Client Console software will find the secondary path to the storage if the first is interrupted, without any manual configuration or user intervention. Even clients connected through Fibre Channel can failover to Ethernet with no intervention from the workstation user.
- Remote "Push/Pull" Volume Mounting: From the Admin Console interface, the administrator can
- Manage volumes on the desktops of the client workstations, adding or removing volumes as needed.
- Enables the administrator to assume the client's identity to perform simple tasks and enable/disable settings.
- Connectivity Settings per Volume: When multiple connections to the server are available, the administrator or end -user can determine the preferred network path on a per volume or per workstation basis.
- Increase or throttle access to certain volumes.
- Even when setting a volume path, connectivity will still failover if that path is unavailable.
- Direct-Attached Mount Appearance: Even when connected through Ethernet, mount volumes as Local Multi-user Write, appearing as a hard drive icon in Finder or Explorer.
- Ensures application compatibility
- Removes network drive restrictions
- Enables indexing through Windows or Mac Spotlight for easy OS-level searching.
- Remote Client Software Deployment: Remove the task of manual install per-client during upgrades with remote software deployment. Select any clients and upgrade software with a push of a button.
- Accurate Bandwidth Monitoring:
- Easily explore current, past performance of your storage on a per-volume, per-user and system-wide basis with weeks of historical data.
- Aid your team by determining the overall load and where changes can be made.
- AD/LDAP Integration: User and group accounts through AD/LDAP directory services can be used to permission Facilis virtual volumes via
- OS login
- Password-protected console access
Where can I use the Web Console?
The Web console has two parts, the Admin Console and the Client Console. The Admin Console can be used from any web browser (even on mobile devices), with access to the IP address of the server and proper login as specified in the Admin Console settings. The Client Console is installed with the Facilis client software and can only be launched on workstations that have Facilis software installed.
Is Web Console available over the internet?
The Web Console is only available on the local network connection that can see the IP address of the server. To be available over the internet, a remote user would have to be connected through a VPN. It’s called the Web Console because it runs in a web browser.
How do I mount volumes on a client workstation?
The Client Console can mount volumes to the workstation where it is launched. The Admin console can mount volumes onto any other workstation in the network that has the Facilis client software installed.
Can the Admin Console be used instead of the Client Console?
If the client workstations have the Facilis client software installed, the administrator can do everything from the Admin Console. This includes mount and unmount of storage volumes for the client workstation, login/logout the client workstation with different user accounts, and change settings for the client workstation.
How large can I make a single volume?
A Facilis Virtual Volume can be up to 256TB in size. Our system is based on project-based volumes, and all user permissions are set at the volume-level. It’s better to create many smaller volumes if each project requires security, or separation from other projects.
Can smaller volumes be resized when needed?
Yes, any volume can be resized up to the maximum volume size regardless of what size it was created. This can be done during production and the capacity becomes available immediately.
Is there a way to monitor bandwidth on the system?
The Admin Console has bandwidth meters available for workstations and volumes, and a status tab that shows the highest bandwidth consumers in the facility at any given time. This also shows historical data as far back as the server has been active.
Can I log in with the same user on different workstations?
Yes, there is no limitation to how many places a single user account can be used. There is also no limit on the number of user accounts, or the number of attached workstations.
Does Web Console work with Active Directory?
Yes, we can add AD/OD and LDAP domains for managing user accounts. The user account is looked-up upon launch of the Client Console to determine the current group access.