Getting a NAS to pull files.

[swain90]

Hi All,

I'm after a bit of information of what sort of functions you can expect from a NAS operating system. This is aimed more at COTS products, I'm not really wanting to image the NAS with any sort of Linux distro.

We currently have £2k max to spend.
Needs to be 1U as it'll be fitted into a cubical.

The scenario I have is that two servers need to access the same NAS. However these servers can't communicate with each other. We were looking to link the two servers to a NAS which has at least two different network cards and assign each card with a different subnet.

Server 1 needs to transfer logs to the NAS. Ideally I would like the NAS to pull these files from the server. Is this sort of feature easily achievable? Due to the way the system is set up, we can't map a network drive to the server so it saves the logs automatically to the NAS.

Sever 2 isn't to much of a problem, as we can map a drive to the NAS so that it can see the list of logs.

Cheers

Swain90

 

[swain90]

The logs which server 1 creates are for a bespoke application. Server 2 can then be used to read those logs for further analysis so I can't use a syslog server.

 

[swain90]

Server 1 and Sever 2 are identical in terms of Computer Name and IP addresses. Basically Server 2 is an "offline" version off Sever 1 (server 1 is in the live environment). In order for server 2 to analyse the logs of server 1, they have to be identical.

Both servers are running Windows Server 2003 (yes I know it's old, but that's what we've got). What NAS would run robocopy?

 

[swain90]

The software is designed to use physical disks so unable to use UNC paths.

I'm currently looking at XPEnology playing around with the OS to see if I can rsync working, is it worth pursuing this, or will I be reaching a dead end?