Areas of the GUI

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Company logo. To customize the logo, see Replacing the Corporate Logo. If you click the logo, the Topology View page opens (see Building and Viewing SIP Entities in Topology View).

2

Menu bar containing the menus.

3

Toolbar providing frequently required command buttons.

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Save: Saves configuration changes to the device's flash memory (without resetting the device). If you make a configuration change, the button is surrounded by a red-colored border as a reminder to save your settings to flash memory.

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Reset: Opens the Maintenance Actions page, which is used for performing various maintenance procedures such as resetting the device (see Basic Maintenance). If you make a configuration change that takes effect only after a device reset, the button is surrounded by a red-colored border as a reminder; otherwise, your changes revert to previous settings if the device resets or powers off.

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Actions:

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Configuration File: Opens the Configuration File page, which is used for saving the ini file to a folder on your PC, or for loading an ini file to the device (see Configuration File).

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Auxiliary Files: Opens the Auxiliary Files page, which is used for loading Auxiliary files to the device (see Loading Auxiliary Files through Web Interface).

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License Key: Opens the License Key page, which is used for installing a new License Key file (see Installing License Key through Web Interface).

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Software Upgrade: Starts the Software Upgrade Wizard for upgrading the device's software (see Software Upgrade).

4

Alarm bell icon displaying the number of active alarms generated by the device. The color of the number indicates the highest severity of an active alarm. If you click the icon, the Active Alarms table is displayed. For more information, see Viewing Active Alarms.

5

Button displaying the username of the currently logged in user. If you click the button, a drop-down box appears:

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Displays information of the currently logged-in user (see Viewing Logged-In User Information)

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Change Password button to change your login password (see Changing Login Password by All User Levels)

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Log Out button to log out the Web session (see Logging Off the Web Interface)

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Product name of device.

Note:

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If you configure a hostname for the device (see Configuring a Hostname for the Device), the hostname is displayed instead of the product name.

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You can customize the product name, as described in Customizing the Product Name.

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Back and Forward buttons that enable quick-and-easy navigation through previously opened pages. This is especially useful when you find that you need to return to a previously accessed page, and then need to go back to the page you just left.

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Back button: Goes back to the previously accessed page.

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Forward button: Opens the page that you initially left using the back button. The button is available only if you have used the Back button.

8

Navigation pane displaying the Navigation tree containing the commands (items) for opening the configuration pages (see Navigation Tree).

9

Tab bar containing tabs pertaining to the selected menu:

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Setup menu:

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IP Network tab

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Signaling & Media tab

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Administration tab

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Monitor menu: Monitor tab

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Troubleshoot menu: Troubleshoot tab

10

SRD filter. When your configuration includes multiple SRDs, you can filter tables in the Web interface by SRD. For more information, see Filtering Tables in Web Interface by SRD.

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Search box for searching parameter names and values (see Searching for Configuration Parameters).

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Work pane where configuration pages are displayed.