Areas of Web Interface

The main areas of the device's Web interface are shown in the figure below and described in the subsequent table:

Description of the Web GUI Areas

Item#

Description

1

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

2

Menu bar with the following menus:

Setup - access to pages concerned with device configuration.
Monitor - access to pages concerned with status and performance monitoring.
Troubleshoot - access to pages concerned with troubleshooting such as logs, debug recording, and call detail records.

3

Tab bar with tabs pertaining to the selected menu on the Menu bar:

Setup menu:
IP Network tab
Signaling & Media tab
Administration tab
Monitor menu: Monitor tab
Troubleshoot menu: Troubleshoot tab

4

Toolbar providing frequently required commands:

Save: Saves configuration to the device's flash memory (without a restart). When you make a configuration change, the button is displayed with a red border, indicating that you need to save configuration.
Restart: Opens the Maintenance Actions page, which is used for restarting the device (see Basic Maintenance) and for gracefully locking or unlocking the device (see Locking and Unlocking the Device). If you make a configuration change that takes effect only after a device restart, the button is displayed with a red border, indicating that you need to restart the device.
Actions: Drop-down menu containing the following commands:
Configuration File: Opens the Configuration File page, which is used for uploading or downloading ini, CLI Script, CLI Startup Script, and Configuration Package files (see Downloading and Uploading Configuration Files).
Auxiliary Files: Opens the Auxiliary Files page, which is used for uploading Auxiliary files (see Uploading Auxiliary Files through Web Interface).
License Key: Opens the License Key page, which is used for installing a new License Key file (see Installing License Key through Web Interface).
Software Upgrade: Starts the Software Upgrade Wizard for upgrading the device's software file (see Upgrading the Device's (.cmp) Software).
Switchover: Opens the High Availability Maintenance page, which is used for switching between Active and Redundant devices (see Initiating an HA Switchover).
Configuration Wizard: Opens the SBC Configuration Wizard, which is used for quick-and-easy device configuration (see SBC Configuration Wizard).

Note: If you have configured any IPv6 interfaces in the IP Interfaces table, the SBC Configuration Wizard is not supported and the Configuration Wizard command is not listed in the Actions menu.

5

Alarm bell icon displaying the number of currently active alarms sent by the device. The color of the number indicates the highest severity of all the active alarms. If you click the icon, the Active Alarms page opens (see Viewing Active Alarms). If the device is in HA mode, the icon displays the number of currently active alarms sent by both Active and Redundant devices as well as the highest severity of these active alarms.

6

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

Displays information of the logged-in user (see Viewing Currently Logged-In User Information).
Change Password button changes your login password (see Changing Login Password).
Log Out button logs you out of the Web session (see Logging Out the Web Interface).

7

The icon provides a drop-down list of links to documents related to your device (e.g., Installation Manual, User's Manual, Security Guidelines, and Release Notes). For private labeling (customizing Web interface), this icon is automatically hidden from the toolbar (see Displaying Referenced Document List).

8

Product name of your device.

Note:

If you configure a hostname for the device (see Configuring a Hostname for the Device), the hostname is displayed instead of the product name.
You can customize the product name, as described in Customizing the Product Name.

9

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

10

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

11

Work pane where configuration pages are displayed and configuration is done.