Synology

Monitor Synology disk temperature from SNMP

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I’m always looking at how to get informations from my I.T. systems ; although it often ends they do nothing… Here’s a trick to monitor the disks temperature of a Synology NAS (DS409slim in my case).

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Improve Synology DS409slim shell using ipkg

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I own a Synology DS409slim on which I have enabled SSH. The primary idea was just to have a look behind the hoods. This is quite simple: browse to the configuration panel, select the terminal services section and active the SSH daemon.

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Time Machine server with Synology

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I was using a 2TB USB disk as a Time Machine storage for my MacBook Pro. The thing is I keep forgetting to plug it to run the backup. So, I’m going to use this storage as a Time Machine remote storage with my Synology DS409-slim.

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Monitor a Synology NAS with Munin

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My Synology DiskStation DS409slim is, via the DSM software, SNMP aware. This means I can poll it to get some information using a SNMP capable monitoring system. This is how I configured Munin to grab some metrics from the NAS.

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Manage MySQL on a Synology DS409slim

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Here’s the way to install, run and manage MySQL on a Synology DS409slim. My DiskStation runs DSM 3.1-1748. First of all, activate the MySQL dæmon: From the Control Panel, choose the Web Services ; Enable Web Station and Enable MySQL ;

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