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  • Introduction
  • Installation
    • Installing Catalogic vStor Application for Linux
    • Deploying Catalogic vStor Virtual Appliance for VMware
    • Deploying Catalogic vStor virtual appliance for Microsoft Hyper-V
    • Required Ports for Catalogic vStor
    • Updating Catalogic vStor
  • Quick Start
    • Catalogic vStor for VMware
    • Catalogic vStor for Hyper-V
  • Basic Configuration
    • Initializing vStor
    • Adding Catalogic vStor Node to Catalogic DPX
    • Configuring vStor system settings
    • Configuring Network Settings of Catalogic vStor
    • Backing up Configuration Settings of Catalogic vStor
    • Restoring Configuration Settings of Catalogic vStor
  • Storage Management
    • Adding Disks to Catalogic vStor
    • Managing Storage Pools in Catalogic vStor
    • Managing Volumes in Catalogic vStor
      • Migrating Volumes in Catalogic vStor
    • Managing Shares in Catalogic vStor
  • Data Protection
    • Catalogic vStor Backup and Recovery
    • Creating vStor Partnerships
    • Enabling Volume Encryption
  • Advanced Configuration
    • Using Multipath Storage for Catalogic vStor
    • Certificates in Catalogic vStor
    • Adding Encryption URLs to Catalogic vStor
    • MinIO Buckets in Catalogic vStor
    • Assigning an E-mail to the vStor account
    • Managing vStor User Accounts
    • Using multi-factor authentication in vStor
  • vStor Command Line Interface
    • Catalogic vStor Server CLI Overview
  • Best Practices
    • Hardware configurations: Best Practices
    • Data backup: Best Practices
    • Data archiving: Best Practices
    • Backup storage: Best Practices
    • Frequently Asked Questions: Best Practices
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  • Enabling firewall
  • Configuring NTP settings using vStor Web Interface
  • Configuring Email Settings using vStor Web Interface
  • Configuring Email Settings using vStor CLI
  • Changing NTP server using vStor CLI

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  1. Basic Configuration

Configuring vStor system settings

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To access vStor’s systems settings, select the System tab from the menu.

Enabling firewall

If you want to enable or disable the vStor firewall, select an appropriate option from the dropdown menu:

Configuring NTP settings using vStor Web Interface

By default, vStor uses your machine’s locale to determine the current time. Select a new timezone from the NTP Timezone dropdown list to change it.

If you wish to change the currently used NTP server, provide an address to the server in the NTP Servers field.

Configuring Email Settings using vStor Web Interface

You can enable email notifications for your vStor instance to inform you about events like failed replication, pool free space below 10%, and more.

To configure email notifications, you need to provide the following information about your SMTP server and specify a list of email addresses, which will receive the notifications:

Configuring Email Settings using vStor CLI

To configure email settings using vStor CLI, use the following command and specify the address of the server, list of recipients and the email credentials:

vstor system mail set --host <server_hostname> --user <email_username> --password <email_password> --recipients <email_recipients> 

Changing NTP server using vStor CLI

To configure email settings using vStor CLI, use the following command and specify the address of the server:

vstor system pref set --name NTPServers --value <server_address>