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# 1. 1 Introduction

Welcome to the TrueNAS® Administrator Guide. This Guide provides information about configuring and managing the TrueNAS® Unified Storage Array. Your iXsystems support engineer will assist with the array’s initial setup and configuration. Once you are familiar with the configuration workflow, this document can be used as a reference guide to the many features provided by TrueNAS®.

## 1.1. 1.1 How This Guide is Organized

The information in the TrueNAS® Administrator Guide has been organized as follows:

- Chapter 1: Introduction: describes the organization of the guide and the typographic conventions.
- Chapter 2: ZFS Primer: many of the features in the TrueNAS® Storage Array rely on the ZFS file system. An overview is provided to familiarize the administrator with the terminology and features provided by ZFS.
- Chapter 3: Initial Setup: this chapter describes how to install the TrueNAS® Storage Array, how to configure the out-of-band management port, and introduces the console and how to access the graphical administrative interface.
- Chapters 4-14: these chapters cover the configuration options which are available in the TrueNAS® graphical administrative interface. The chapter order reflects the order that the configuration options appear within the administrative interface’s tree structure. Chapter 4 describes how to create users and groups. Chapter 5 describes the tasks that can be accomplished using the System Configuration section of the administrative interface. Chapter 6 describes how to schedule regular administrative tasks. Chapter 7 demonstrates the various network configuration options. Chapter 8 deals with managing storage. Chapter 9 describes integration with various directory services. Chapter 10 provides examples for creating AFP, CIFS, NFS, WebDAV, and iSCSI shares. Chapter 11 describes how to configure, start, and stop the built-in services. Chapter 12 provides an overview of the Reporting mechanism. Chapter 13 introduces the configuration wizard, and chapter 14 covers the remaining configuration options.
- Chapter 15: Using the FreeNAS® API: this chapter demonstrates how to use the FreeNAS® API to remotely control a TrueNAS® system.

Typographic Conventions

The TrueNAS® Administrator Guide uses the following typographic conventions:

- Names of graphical elements such as buttons, icons, fields, columns, and boxes are enclosed within quotes. For example: click the “Import Ca” button.
- Menu selections are italicized and separated by arrows. For example: System ‣ Information.
- Commands that are mentioned within text are highlighted in bold text. Command examples and command output are contained in green code blocks.
- Volume, dataset, and file names are enclosed in a blue box `/like/this`.
- Keystrokes are formatted in a blue box. For example: press `Enter`.
- bold text: used to emphasize an important point.
- italic text: used to represent device names or text that is input into a GUI field.