Using the Web Administration Capability

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You can access the Monitor server from any web browser if the Web Administration capability is enabled as described in "Configuring the Web Administration Capability".

What you see when you access the Monitor server from a web browser is determined by the User Properties for the user ID you log on with.

For example, in order to log on to the Web Administration capability of the Monitor server, your Allow Web Access option must be selected. Furthermore, once logged on, only System Administrators will see the System Administration menu, and only Host Administrators will see the Host Administration menu.

List Administrators will not be able to administer lists by logging on to the Web Administration capability of the Monitor server. In order for list administrators to administer lists on the web, they must use Web Messaging.

To access the Web Administration capability of the Monitor server from a web browser:

1. Start a web browser and open the URL address for the Web Administration server. The address is:

   http://your_imail_server_system:8181 
   
   

   where your_imail_server_system is the host name of the IMail Server and 8181 is the port number for the web function.

2. Enter your IMail user ID and password.

Note: The IMail user ID and password use base 64 encoding for sending this information via the HTTP protocol.

The following screen shows an example of the web page display. In addition to providing access to the user mail accounts, the web page can display the status of services monitored by the Monitor server.

In the left panel, the Monitor shows the status of monitored services. Services in green are running; services in red are stopped.

The right panel shows the menu of administration functions. All users will see the functions under Personal Information. System administrators will also see System Administration functions. Host administrators will also see Host Administration functions. List Administrators will also see List Administration options.

Personal Account Options

All users have access to the personal information items:

• Change Password - allows user to change password.
• Change User Information - allows user to change the information that is published by the LDAP server.
• Change Finger Information - allows user to change the information in the plan file; this information is provided in response to a Finger request.
• Change Mail Forwarding Information - allows user to set a forwarding e-mail address to which all mail is sent.
• Change Vacation Message - allows user to enter a message that will be sent once to each person who sends mail to the user. The presence of a message activates this feature. Therefore, if the window is empty, the vacation message feature is disabled.

System Administration

System Administrators will see these menu items:

• Service Administration - allows the administrator to stop and start IMail services and configure service monitoring.
• Current Host Configuration - allows the administrator to view and modify the host configuration.
• SMTP Settings - allows the administrator to change settings
  for the SMTP server. For a description of each setting, see "Chapter 8: SMTP Server"..
• Local Address Table - allows the administrator to modify the Local Address table. For more information on mail relay capabilities, see "Chapter 8: SMTP Server"..
• SMTP Access Table - allows the administrator to modify the SMTP access table. For more information on SMTP access, see "Chapter 8: SMTP Server"..
• POP3/IMAP4 Access Table - allows the administrator to modify the POP3/IMAP4 access table. For more information, see "Chapter 10: POP3 Server". and "Chapter 11: IMAP4 Server".
• Web Access Table - allows the administrator to modify the web access table; this specifies the IP addresses that the Monitor server Web Administration feature allows to connect.
• View Monitor Database - displays all service monitoring events.
• View Spool Directory - displays the message queue and provides access to log files.
• Edit Welcome Message - allows the administrator to enter up to 1000 characters of plain text and/or raw HTML code. The message is displayed in the main logon screen above the logon form. The message persists across reboots.
• Recent IMail News - displays the web page where Ipswitch reports information on new releases, bug fixes, and workarounds.
• View Monitor Access Log - displays each access attempt to the IMail Web Messaging server and to the Monitor server.
• View Monitor System Log - displays logons to the IMail Server and to the Monitor server and shows the status of services.
• View IMail System Log - displays IMail Server send and receive mail transactions (the contents of syslog.txt).
• View IMail Syslog Log - displays the contents of lognnnn.txt, the System Log Service file. This file records transaction and debug information when enabled for any IMail services.

Host Administration

• Host Administrators will see a User Administration menu item. It lets host administrators add, modify, and delete users and aliases.
• List Administrators will see a List Administration menu item. This allows user to maintain specific list server mailing lists.

For more information on creating and maintaining users and aliases, see "Chapter 4: User Mail Accounts"..

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