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Advanced Settings

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Last Modified 2026-03-18 11:39 EDT

TrueNAS Advanced Settings provide configuration options for console, scheduled tasks, hardware resources, security, and system logging.

Configuring Advanced Settings: Tutorials for configuring advanced system settings in TrueNAS.

Managing the System Configuration: Provides information on downloading your TrueNAS configuration to back up system settings, uploading a new configuration file, and resetting back to default settings.

Managing the Console Setup Menu: Provides information on the Console setup menu configuration settings including the serial port, port speed, password protection, and the banner users see.

Managing Cron Jobs: Provides information on adding or modifying cron jobs in TrueNAS.

Managing System Logging: Provides information on setting up or changing syslog server settings, the level of logging, the information included in the logs, and using TLS as the transport protocol.

Managing Init/Shutdown Scripts: Provides information on adding or modifying init/shutdown scripts in TrueNAS.

Configuring SED Settings: Provides information on adding or modifying self-encrypting drive (SED) user and global passwords in TrueNAS.

Isolating GPU for VMs: Provides information on isolating Graphics Processing Units (GPU) installed in your system.

Managing Global 2FA (Two-Factor Authentication): Provides information on setting up and managing global two-factor authentication, and logging in with it enabled.

Developer Mode (Unsupported): Provides information on the unsupported TrueNAS developer mode and how to enable it.

Advanced Settings Screen: Provides information on the System Settings > Advanced screen, cards, and configuration screen settings.

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