this episode of lonus detectives is going to be about the special ASUS
features ASUS special features rather on
the TS mini Windows Home Server so why don't we start with aswm so assus system
web-based management software so cleverly named so it's an interface that
allows you to conveniently manage your home server status via Windows Home
Server console so let's go into that over here aswm so this is just a Windows
Home Server plugin there are actually tons available on www.we got ser .co.uk
but these are some custom ones that ASUS has included with their ts mini so the
first one here is you can monitor your system fans there are two fans in the TS
mini they are both working excellent you can monitor your motherboard
temperatures you can monitor your
cat go away cat all right you can monitor your CPU temperature right now
it's running at 50° which is perfectly safe you can monitor your discs as well
as your drives I'm not sure what the difference between discs and drives is
maybe we'll find out they look the same you can monitor your network connection
so here it is showing me how much of my network is being used right now actually
here's something we could do why don't we uh just go like this shared folders
and let's see what happens if I actually copy a folder into videos for example
Network utilization should go up and it looks like it doesn't refresh
all that often that's okay memory utilization this has 1 gig of
memory so it shows me how much of that is being used how much page file is used
and
CPU overall CPU utilization and breaks
it down by core it is a dual core atom so inventory there's a lot more stuff
here that I can also go into if I feel like it and
configuration oh event configuration H vent configuration let's
have a look o even BIOS flashes in here there's all kinds of good stuff
here so you can have it notify you in
the event oh okay so you can set it so things like motherboard fans uh when it
goes below a certain level that's an event I believe so let me see yep so
here's the the the low monitor here's high low so critical thresholds are
600 okay cool and so yeah you can set it
so it'll send you an email or it'll send you um what else can it send you
neat well looks like a pretty neat piece of software let's move on to the next
one assus web storage so assus web storage allows you to enjoy one year
free online space and back up your files to your home server with an internet
connection you can access and share any files whenever you want and wherever you
are okay well Windows Home Server allows you to do a whole lot of web storage on
your own but I'm sure that there is a value to this I'm not going to bother
setting it up for now but that is one of the features that Aus does include this
one I saved the best for
last this one has all kinds of cool stuff in here so my my personal favorite
one is the backup tab so this allows you to take your external storage Source in
this case it's my USB flash drive you can select any folders that you want you
select a home server destination folder and then you click backup boom so you
throw that in one of your duplicated folders so you have a quick easy way to
plug something into your home server back it up and have it duplicated you
don't worry about it anymore very cool file manager okay this one I'm not quite
as certain about so you can copy delete edit the files and folders between
external storage devices in your Home Server so this would be a way to
manually copy edit and delete um this
one has a little bit less usefulness to me because you do always have the option
of using remote desktop connection to access your Home Server um if you don't
know how to do that it's quite simple you just just go to remote desktop
connection type in the name of your home server and then you can actually do
stuff like this on your own from there so you're not technically supposed to
use remote desktop connection uh to access the Home Server they don't
recommend it a big warning is going to come up and tell me not to do it but you
can always just go into share folders on Home Server go into my computer I mean
it's just a computer right so uh from
there I can access my uh my flash drive so this one is not uh not a huge one but
syn synchronization is great too because synchronization allows you to just same
thing you automatically synchronize except this one instead of backing up
only from the external device into the Home Server is actually able to go
either way so for let's say a document you've been working on at home and at
work if you're storing one copy on your USB drive and one copy on your home
server at home you can set it so that it will just synchronize and it'll update
to the latest version of the file so that's a very cool feature as well so
ASUS has included a pretty neat little software suite in addition to all the
stuff that's already included with Windows Home Server and thank you for
checking out my episode on the exclusive
ASUS software with the TS Mini