Administrator's Guide - Kerio Software Archive

3.1 Kerio Control Administration web interface
Detailed guidelines for the Administration Console are provided under Kerio Administration
Console — Help (to view these guidelines, use option Help → Contents
in the main Administration Console window, or you can download it from
http://www.kerio.com/firewall/manual).
The following chapters of this manual describe individual sections of the Administration Console
and the web administration interface.
Note:
1. The Administration web interface and the Administration Console for Kerio Control are
available in 16 localization versions. The Administration interface allows language
selection by simple switching of the flag located in the top right corner of the window
or by following the browser language preferences. The Administration Console allows
language settings in the Tools menu of the login dialog box.
2. Upon the first login to the Administration Console after a successful Kerio Control
installation, the traffic rules wizard is run so that the initial Kerio Control configuration
can be performed. For a detailed description on this wizard, please refer to chapter 7.17.1.
The wizard is not available in the current version of the Administration interface.
Therefore it is recommended to use the Administration Console for the initial configuration
of Kerio Control (immediately upon the installation).
3.1 Kerio Control Administration web interface
The Kerio Control Administration interface is available at https://server:4081/admin
(server stands for the firewall name or IP address and 4081 for the port of its web interface).
HTTPS traffic between the client and the Kerio Control Engine is encrypted. This protects the
communication from tapping and misuse. It is recommended to use the unsecured version
of the Administration (the HTTP protocol on port 4080) only for local administration of Kerio
Control (i.e. administration from the computer where it is installed).
Upon a successful logon to the Administration web interface, the main window consisting of
two sections is displayed:
• The left column contains the tree view of sections. For better transparency it is
possible to hide or show individual parts of the tree (upon logon, the full tree is
shown).
• The right column lists contents of the section previously selected in the left column.
In most cases, configuration changes in individual sections are performed only at the client’s
side (i.e. in the web browser) and get applied on the configuration file upon clicking on the
Apply button. Therefore, it is possible to use the Cancel button to recover the former settings.
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