System Administration

Maintain, monitor, and manage your deployments easily with tools built in to DiskStation Manager (DSM).

Simple hardware maintenance

Storage management

Storage management

Monitor vital storage information, forecast long-term storage use, and increase reliability with hot spare drives.

Simple drive servicing

Simple drive servicing

Auto Drive Replacement automatically clones failing drives to hot spares while Auto Repair rebuilds arrays when swapping out old drives.

Rapid RAID repair

Rapid RAID repair

Fast Repair rebuilds RAID arrays by only rebuilding the used portion of the array. Systems return to peak performance with less wear and tear, regardless of the RAID configuration.

Large-scale deployment solutions


Active Insight

Active Insight

Gain actionable intelligence on the health and status of your Synology systems. Active Insight is a management insights tool that provides status information and assists in diagnosing system anomalies across your organization’s Synology deployment.

Active Insight simplifies:

  • Forecasting storage capacity using statistical data
  • Tracking security incidents across multiple sites
  • Monitoring Hyper Backup task statuses and reviewing backup log data
Active Insight

Central Management System

Central Management System

Speed up mass deployment and manage up to 10,000 Synology systems with predefined actions executed at the deployment, group, or individual system level.

Central Management System

Flexible administrative role delegation

Account and shared folder management

Let delegated users manage user accounts or administrate shared folders to ease IT admins’ workload in response to HR changes.

Secure system monitoring delegation

Permit external IT personnel to monitor system status in real time, but restrict service providers from modifying system settings.

Limited backup management privileges

Grant designated users the right to manage backup tasks without administrative privileges over other users’ backup tasks and data.

Flexible administrative role delegation

Finetune system notifications


Direct notifications more effectively

More configuration options help finetune notification rules to ensure critical messages get delivered.

  • Unlimited email recipients per rule
  • Set custom delivery channels per rule (email, push service, webhook)
Direct notifications more effectively

Notify the right person or team

Directly integrate DSM notifications into your Microsoft Teams channels or LINE groups. Combine with rule-based delivery to ensure the right message is delivered to the responsible team.

Notify the right person or team

Extensive management features

Protect your data and manage users with extensive administration tools.

Strong data integrity

Strong data integrity

Btrfs utilizes powerful snapshot technology, data scrubbing, and checksums to deliver data protection and integrity.

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Centralized user management

Centralized user management

Leverage resources efficiently by easily delegating administrator privileges to non-administrators.

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Easy system migration

Easy system migration

Move all your data to a new Synology system with minimal downtime using Migration Assistant.

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Maximize service continuity

Maximize service continuity

Synology High Availability (SHA) ensures systems remain available in the event of hardware failures or disasters.

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Optimize your deployment

Discover how to cost-effectively improve data integrity, performance, and maintenance with powerful hardware and software solutions.

Beat the security bugs

Models for effective system administration

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