ASUS TS Mini Custom Software Applications & Plug Ins for Windows Home Server Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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this episode of lonus detectives is going to be about the special ASUS
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features ASUS special features rather on
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the TS mini Windows Home Server so why don't we start with aswm so assus system
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web-based management software so cleverly named so it's an interface that
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allows you to conveniently manage your home server status via Windows Home
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Server console so let's go into that over here aswm so this is just a Windows
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Home Server plugin there are actually tons available on www.we got ser .co.uk
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but these are some custom ones that ASUS has included with their ts mini so the
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first one here is you can monitor your system fans there are two fans in the TS
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mini they are both working excellent you can monitor your motherboard
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temperatures you can monitor your
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cat go away cat all right you can monitor your CPU temperature right now
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it's running at 50° which is perfectly safe you can monitor your discs as well
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as your drives I'm not sure what the difference between discs and drives is
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maybe we'll find out they look the same you can monitor your network connection
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so here it is showing me how much of my network is being used right now actually
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here's something we could do why don't we uh just go like this shared folders
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and let's see what happens if I actually copy a folder into videos for example
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Network utilization should go up and it looks like it doesn't refresh
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all that often that's okay memory utilization this has 1 gig of
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memory so it shows me how much of that is being used how much page file is used
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and
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CPU overall CPU utilization and breaks
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it down by core it is a dual core atom so inventory there's a lot more stuff
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here that I can also go into if I feel like it and
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configuration oh event configuration H vent configuration let's
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have a look o even BIOS flashes in here there's all kinds of good stuff
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here so you can have it notify you in
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the event oh okay so you can set it so things like motherboard fans uh when it
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goes below a certain level that's an event I believe so let me see yep so
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here's the the the low monitor here's high low so critical thresholds are
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600 okay cool and so yeah you can set it
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so it'll send you an email or it'll send you um what else can it send you
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neat well looks like a pretty neat piece of software let's move on to the next
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one assus web storage so assus web storage allows you to enjoy one year
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free online space and back up your files to your home server with an internet
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connection you can access and share any files whenever you want and wherever you
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are okay well Windows Home Server allows you to do a whole lot of web storage on
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your own but I'm sure that there is a value to this I'm not going to bother
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setting it up for now but that is one of the features that Aus does include this
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one I saved the best for
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last this one has all kinds of cool stuff in here so my my personal favorite
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one is the backup tab so this allows you to take your external storage Source in
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this case it's my USB flash drive you can select any folders that you want you
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select a home server destination folder and then you click backup boom so you
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throw that in one of your duplicated folders so you have a quick easy way to
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plug something into your home server back it up and have it duplicated you
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don't worry about it anymore very cool file manager okay this one I'm not quite
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as certain about so you can copy delete edit the files and folders between
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external storage devices in your Home Server so this would be a way to
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manually copy edit and delete um this
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one has a little bit less usefulness to me because you do always have the option
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of using remote desktop connection to access your Home Server um if you don't
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know how to do that it's quite simple you just just go to remote desktop
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connection type in the name of your home server and then you can actually do
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stuff like this on your own from there so you're not technically supposed to
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use remote desktop connection uh to access the Home Server they don't
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recommend it a big warning is going to come up and tell me not to do it but you
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can always just go into share folders on Home Server go into my computer I mean
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it's just a computer right so uh from
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there I can access my uh my flash drive so this one is not uh not a huge one but
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syn synchronization is great too because synchronization allows you to just same
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thing you automatically synchronize except this one instead of backing up
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only from the external device into the Home Server is actually able to go
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either way so for let's say a document you've been working on at home and at
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work if you're storing one copy on your USB drive and one copy on your home
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server at home you can set it so that it will just synchronize and it'll update
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to the latest version of the file so that's a very cool feature as well so
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ASUS has included a pretty neat little software suite in addition to all the
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stuff that's already included with Windows Home Server and thank you for
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checking out my episode on the exclusive
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ASUS software with the TS Mini