- 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
- Supports monitoring package status on the managed servers
- Supports monitoring file service status (including SMB, AFP, FTP, FTPS, NFS, SFTP, SSH, Telnet, and rsync) on the managed servers
- Supports running custom scripts on managed servers that are connected to the CMS Host via HTTPS
- Supports backing up and restoring the CMS package via Hyper Backup
Limitations
- Supported DSM versions on the managed servers: DSM 6.2 or above. Please note the following:
- Only managed servers running DSM 7.0 or above support custom scripts
- Only CMS Hosts and managed servers running DSM 7.0 or above support backup and restoration via Hyper Backup
- The CMS Host must run DSM 6.2.4 (or above) and CMS 2.1.4 to manage important DSM updates and package updates
- 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