NAS User and System Management
As your business expands, deploy QNAP NAS to realize lowest IT TCO and highest ROI with simple and secure NAS user and system management, thus sharpening your competitive edge.
NAS User Management
QNAP NAS can join existing directory services to offer granular and flexible IT collaborative management for multiple devices, while ensuring login security.
Simplified | Collaborative | Secure
Integrate existing directory service for central NAS user management
You can join QNAP NAS to existing directory services to centrally manage all the NAS user accounts and authentication. NAS users can also conveniently and securely access NAS services and resources.
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Windows AD / LDAP
Join QNAP NAS to existing Windows AD/LDAP to allow users to access NAS with their Windows account.
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Azure AD Active Directory
Join QNAP NAS to Azure AD DS. Single-Sign On (SSO) is supported for users to access NAS services using a unified set of credentials.
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Windows ACL
IT staff can configure NAS user permissions for single files or share folders in Windows File Explorer.
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QNAP NAS Domain Controller
Easily create a licensing-free Active Directory domain service for your company by configuring QNAP NAS as a domain controller.
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RADIUS Server
By using a QNAP NAS as a RADIUS server, IT staff can easily apply access policies to multiple access points. Wi-Fi users can also be centrally managed via WLAN authentication.
Delegated administration to achieve flexible and efficient IT collaborative management
For growing organizations, role delegation helps ease management workloads. Administrators, who have full authority of the NAS, can delegate 8 types of roles to other users with specified permissions to management tasks and NAS data.
Learn more: Delegated administration
Large-scale NAS management with “Organization-based” team collaboration
For Enterprises and MSPs owning hundreds or thousands of NAS devices in multiple sites, Organization Center provides a single platform that allows you to simplify large-scale NAS management and management permissions. IT teams can efficiently create multiple “Organizations”, “Sites” and “Administrators” for managed NAS devices/services, and assign groupings from the cloud.
Learn more: Management center for device and user permission in your organization
Tips：What’s the difference between QNAP NAS user account and QNAP Account (QID)?
- NAS user account: Only for logging in to a single NAS system.
- QNAP Account (QID): A QNAP Account. This is required to bind NAS devices, remotely access NAS, and use QNAP cloud services.
Secure your NAS account with two-factor authentication (2FA)
Apply a two-step log-in process to your NAS accounts with the QNAP Authenticator mobile app and protect against unauthorized access. You can also enable the convenient passwordless login to free you from remembering long, complicated, and unique passwords.
Learn more: Secured login and multi-factor authentication (MFA)
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Passwordless login
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2-Step Verification
NAS System Management
Incorporating cloud-based and automated management, QNAP offers a smart, flexible, and reliable system management solution to help you manage multiple NAS systems and services, greatly boosting IT maintenance efficiency.
Cloud-based | Automated | Large-scale
Monitor NAS system resources efficiently
Resource Monitor helps you quickly analyze/manage NAS system resource utilization for optimizing system resource allocation.
Predict drive failure with AI for peace of mind
When a drive fails, you not only potentially lose all the files and data stored on it, but it can also lead to a severe domino effect that causes downtime and cripples interconnected services and workflows. QNAP’s AI-based drive health analysis technology and automatic RAID disk replacement with spares ensure a highly-reliable storage environment.
Drive health analysis and failure prediction
Powered by a cloud AI engine provided by ULINK, the ULINK DA Drive Analyzer intelligently predicts if one of your drives is near failure - allowing you to plan for replacements and service continuity before drive failure occurs.
Learn more: DA Drive Analyzer
Automatic RAID disk replacement with spares
If potential drive errors are noticed, QTS automatically moves data from the affected disk in a RAID group to a spare disk, before the data on the affected disk is completely corrupted. By removing the need to wait for the system to replace drives only after a failure occurs (from hours even to weeks), system reliability is greatly improved and removes the need for RAID rebuild.
NAS system log center
QuLog Center provides graphical statistic rankings of error/warning events and access, assisting you in quickly monitoring and responding to potential system risks. QuLog Center supports labels, advanced search, and log sender/receiver. Logs from multiple QNAP NAS can be centralized to the QuLog Center on a specific NAS for efficient management.
Customizable notification rules
Notification Center helps you stay informed of your QNAP NAS status. You can flexibly define specific rules for alert notifications via email, SMS, push notification, Facebook Messenger, or Skype.
Learn more: Notification Center
Centrally manage multiple NAS and update firmware via cloud
Central NAS management has been made easier with QNAP AMIZcloud Management Platform! AMIZcloud provides a single cloud platform for managing thousands of NAS devices located at multiple sites, suitable for multi-branch and multi-site businesses. IT staff can easily monitor real-time NAS status information, update firmware, and batch install NAS apps to greatly improve large-scale IT maintenance and remote management efficiency.
Learn more: AMIZcloud
Monitor all network devices on QNAP NAS with SNMP
Your non-QNAP devices in your network infrastructure can also be monitored on QNAP NAS. By installing a network management system (NMS) such as Zabbix, Nagios, PRTG on your QNAP NAS you can easily manage and monitor every SNMP-enabled device in your network environment.
Learn more: Manage and monitor networked devices via SNMP
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Business Multi-Layered Cybersecurity Measures
Comprehensive cybersecurity measures to assist IT administrators in creating a layered security management system.
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Connection Protection
Enable QuFirewall to filter network threats for NAS and securely access NAS remotely through myQNAPcloud Link, QVPN Service and QuWAN SD-WAN, establishing VPN connections and multi-site Mesh VPNs.
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Intranet Security
Organizations can deploy ADRA NDR cybersecurity software on access switches on access switches to actively defend against targeted ransomware within the intranet.
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Permission Management
Support for Windows® AD, Azure® AD, LDAP and role delegation, and secure NAS access using QNAP Authenticator for two-step verification (2FA) or passwordless login.
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Transmission Security
Enable SMB signing for high-security SMB transmissions, with QNAP's exclusive acceleration algorithms ensuring higher transmission performance.
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Security Assessment
Security Center actively monitors NAS status, while Malware Remover regularly scans NAS for malware infections, providing immediate protection, blocking, and removal of attacks.
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Disaster Recovery
Enable Snapshots and regularly back up data using Hybrid Backup Sync, with quick restoration available when needed.
A convenient way for troubleshooting
If you have issues logging in to QTS due to IP connection errors or forgetting admin credentials you can enable the Console Management and perform basic configuration and debugging using SSH, the Serial Console, or HDMI display.
