Administration dialog window
The main WinRoute administration dialog window (administration window) will be opened upon a successful login to the WinRoute Firewall Engine through the Kerio Administration Console. This window consists of two sections:
- The left column provides a structured list (tree) of sections of the administration window. Individual items (sections) and their subsections can be viewed and hidden by simple clicks. Whenever the Kerio Administration Console is closed, the current status of the tree is saved and kept for the following connection to the window.
- The right section of the main window shows contents of a section selected in the left column (or a list of subsections included in the selected item).
Main menu of the administration window
The main menu provides the following options:
File
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Reconnect reconnection to the WinRoute Firewall Engine after a connection drop-out (caused for example by a restart of the Engine or by a network error). For security reasons, a username and password authentication is required for reconnections.
Note: The Administration Console automatically detects connection drop-outs. Drop-outs are usually detected during data download/upload from or to the server (i.e. when the Apply button is pressed or when a user switches between individual sections of the Administration Console). In such cases, the authentication dialog along with an error report is opened automatically.
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New Connection this option can be useful when the console will be used for administration of multiple server applications (e.g. WinRoute at multiple servers). The New Connection option opens the main dialog window of the Kerio Administration Console. This window provides a menu of possible connections as well as an option through which a new connection can be set (for details refer to the Kerio Administration Console Help document).
The New Connection option opens the same dialog as running the Kerio Administration Console from the Start menu.
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Quit terminates the session (this option logs the user out of the server and closes the administration window). The session may also be closed by clicking on the cross in the right corner at the top of the window or by pressing Alt+F4.
Help
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Administrator's Guide this option opens the administrator's guide in the HTML Help format. For details concerning help files refer to the Kerio Administration Console Help document.
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About this page provides information about current version of the application (WinRoute's administration module in this case), a link to our company's website, etc.
Status bar
At the bottom of the administration window, there is a status bar which provides the following information:
- Opened section of the administration (selected in the left column). This information is for reference and it can be helpful for example when any part of the tree is not visible (when a lower screen resolution is used, for example).
- Name or IP address of the server and port of the server application (WinRoute uses port 44333).
- Name of the currently connected user.
- Current status of the Kerio Administration Console: Ready (waits for user's response), Loading (loading data from the server) or Saving (saving changes to the server).
