Synology NAS

We have a Rackstation RS819 with a big chonky hunk of storage inside. Spinny platters, but whatever.

Monitoring

Webhooks are better than Email, I say. So, how?

  1. Discord: Create Webhook in channel
  2. On the Synology: Settings > Notification > Webhooks
  3. Set provider to Custom
  4. Set method to POST and make sure the type is application/json
  5. In json template change "text" to "content"
  6. Apply

Kiwix for Synology

Package is installed. If we want to update, we want these steps (as directed by this document):

  1. Download a .zim file from https://library.kiwix.org/
  2. Put the .zim file in the /kiwix-share folder that got created during the installation of Kiwix.
  3. Open up port 22 on your Synology NAS by enabling the SSH service in Control Panel > Terminal & SNMP, then SSH into it
  4. Run this command: kiwix-manage /volume1/kiwix-share/library.xml add /volume1/kiwix-share/wikipedia_en_100_2024-06.zim (replace with the name of your file)
  5. Close port 22 again when you’re done.
  6. Restart the Kiwix app on the NAS and browse to the address of your Synology NAS and port 8092

Which Zim?

We're grabbing the last 'maxi' right now (late August 2025) but we may want the 'nopic' instead, which is smaller and has much newer snapshots available (August 2025 instead of January 2024, yikes).