- System-wide server management and health monitoring service allow easy management of multiple servers
- Group policies alleviate the effort of large-scale server setup and management
- Centralized notification and system update reminder to keep all the managed servers up-to-date
- Immediate updates on storage usage status to pinpoint abnormality with efficiency
- Display of granular server information to facilitate administration work
Central Management System
Features
Specifications
- Allows a single CMS Host to manage up to 10,000 servers (Capability varies depending on product model)
- Offers flexible server adding process
- Allows adding multiple servers easily via IP address, QuickConnect, FQDN, or from imported server lists
- Allows installing DSM on managed servers within the server adding process
- Provides a centralized view on managed servers' information: network, volume usage, drive, and package
- Allows administrators to perform predefined actions on managed servers: server shutdown, reboot, and wake on LAN
- Allows creating server groups and customizing group policies (e.g., file services, network settings, and directory services), and applying the policy settings to the entire server group
- Allows administrators to customize management policies on the server-wide level, group level, or individual server level
- Supports the delegation of administrator permissions to specific users or groups on the CMS Host, and allows delegated users to manage specific servers or server groups
- Displays the status of storage pools (named RAID Group/Disk Group on DSM 6.1), volumes, drives, and shared folders
- Centralizes the notifications for CMS Host and all managed servers, and allows exporting the notifications for further administration use
- Records the event logs of managed servers and allows exporting the logs in CSV or HTML format
- Offers auto-reminder on DSM and package updates, and allows administrators to configure settings to receive only important updates and centrally update all managed servers
- Supports updating DSM and packages on the managed servers by batches
Limitations
- Supported DSM versions on the managed servers: DSM 5.2, DSM 6.0, DSM 6.1, DSM 6.2, DSM 7.0
- Each Synology NAS can only be added to one CMS Host for management
- The management levels of the delegated administrators depend on the users' privileges
- Users belonging to the administrators group can view and modify the settings of all managed servers
- Users who do not belong to the administrators group can only view and modify the settings of the managed servers that they have been delegated management permissions
- The reboot and shutdown actions cannot be applied to managed servers belonging to a Synology High Availability cluster