Web Administration Feature

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The Monitor server can enable a Web Administration function that lets you view the status of monitored services, modify IMail Server user registration data, and view log data.

Configuring Web Administration

To configure Web Administration through the Monitor server:

1. Click the Monitor Web Server tab. The Web Access properties appear as shown below.

2. Turn on Enable Web Administration through Monitor.
3. Enter the Port number for Web Administration. The default is 8181.
4. Enter the Title that you want to appear on the web page when accessed from a web browser.
5. In the Web Dir box, enter the directory where you can place additional files to be served by the Web Administration function.
6. When Hide User List Button is selected, the Web Administration capability will not display a list of users in the host administrator functions.
7. Click Control Access to specify an IP address or set of IP addresses that are either granted access to the web server or denied access. Systems that do not have access to the web server system will not be allowed to create a connection.
8. Click Apply to apply the settings. The Monitor server must be stopped and restarted for changes to take affect.

Setting Access to Web Administration

You can specify an IP address or set of IP addresses that are either granted or denied access. Systems that do not have access to the Monitor server will not be allowed to create a connection.

To deny access to a specific computer or group of computers:

1. Click Control Access. The Access Control properties appear.
2. Select Granted Access.
3. Click Add. The Deny Access On dialog box appears.
4. In the IP Address box, enter the IP address of the computer to be denied access to Web Administration.

To deny access to a group of computers, select Group of Computers. In the IP Address and Subnet Mask boxes, enter the IP address and subnet mask for the group to be denied access. For example, if you have a class C address space of 156.21.50.0, enter a group address of 156.21.50.0 and a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0. This will deny access to those 254 systems.

5. Click OK to add the IP address(es) to the list. Access will be granted to all computers except those listed.
6. Click OK to save the changes. Note that you must stop and restart the monitor service for the changes to take affect.

To grant access to a specific computer or group of computers:

1. Click Control access. The Access Control dialog box appear.
2. Select Denied Access.
3. Click Add. The Grant Access On dialog box appears.
4. In the IP Address box, enter the IP address of the computer to be granted access to the Web Administration through the Monitor server.

To grant access to a group of computers, select Group of Computers. In the IP Address and Subnet Mask boxes, enter the IP address and subnet mask for the group to be granted access. For example, if you have a class C address space of 156.21.50.0, enter a group address of 156.21.50.0 and a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0. This will grant access to those 254 systems.

5. Click OK to add the IP address(es) to the list. Access will be denied to all computers except those listed.
6. Click Apply to save the changes. Note that you must stop and restart the monitor service for the changes to take effect.

Using the Web Administration Capability

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

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 options under Personal Information. System administrators will also see System Administration options. Host administrators will also see Host Administration options. List Administrators will also see List Administration options.

Personal Account Options

All users have access to the following 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 information in the plan file, which 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. 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 "SMTP Server"..
• Local Address Table - allows the administrator to modify the Local Address table. For more information on mail relay capabilities, see "SMTP Server"..
• SMTP Access Table - allows the administrator to modify the SMTP access table. For more information on SMTP access, see "SMTP Server"..
• POP3/IMAP4 Access Table - allows the administrator to modify the POP3/IMAP4 access table. For more information, see "POP3 Server". and "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 appears 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 "User Mail Accounts"..

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