.. _About This Guide: About This Guide ---------------- This guide complements the documentation on managing |product_name| via the web-based management panel. It is recommended to manage |product_name| via the management panel. If you have it installed, consider the command-line tools secondary and use them with caution. If you have the management panel installed, do not do the following via the command-line tools: - set custom paths for |product_name| services, in particular: - create S3 clusters only in ``/mnt/vstorage/vols/s3``, - create iSCSI targets only in ``/mnt/vstorage/vols/iscsi``, - mount clusters or change cluster mount options, - configure firewall with ``firewall-cmd``, - rename network connections, - manage MDS/CS, - manage partitions, LVMs, or software RAID, - modify files in ``/mnt/vstorage/vols`` and ``/mnt/vstorage/webcp/backup`` directories, - set encoding or replication of cluster root.