4.3. The Appliance Dashboard#

We assume you have setup your Appliance accordingly to the quickstart guide which came with your installation image. So the Appliance should be up and running. This guide will introduce the appliance management Web UI dashboard which can be used for an easy and convenient configuration of all important aspects of the Appliance, including configuration revisioning, backup and restore abilities.

It can be reached at:

https://<IP_OF_LINOTP>:8443

The appliance management Web UI is e.g. used to

monitor the status of the system

configure the network settings of the machine

set passwords of the root user and LinOTP administrators

perform backup and restore

manage your license

update the machine

Note

Every time you define a new appliance configuration the configuration needs to be saved and activated. You can revert to a previous configuration set at any time. The appliance keeps track of your configuration sets. See Working with configuration sets for details.

Let’s take a brief look at the main tabs and thus at the main configuration topics. You will find more detailed explanation for each tab in the following chapters of the documentation.

Appliance main tabs

Dashboard: will give you an overview about the system status, the versions of LinOTP and the Appliance and your type of license. Some graphics show on a timeline the memory consumption, the disk usage and other important information.
Network: is used to configure all network settings including additional routes and name server.
Time: is used to set the time, the timezone and optional NTP server.
LinOTP: is used to manage LinOTP token administrators and to set the debug level of the LinOTP application.
RADIUS: is used to define RADIUS clients and other RADIUS settings.
System: manage certificates and passwords, schedule updates, backup and restore the appliance and more.
Configuration Management: save and restore your configuration.
Licence: show and upgrade license.