Areas of Web Interface

The areas of the Web interface's GUI 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 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.

■ Save: Saves configuration changes to the device's flash memory (without restarting the device). If you make a configuration change, the button is surrounded by a red border as a reminder.
■ Restart: Opens the Maintenance Actions page, which is used for performing various maintenance procedures such as restarting the device (see Basic Maintenance). If you make a configuration change that takes effect only after a device restart, the button is surrounded by a red border as a reminder; otherwise, your changes revert to previous settings when the device restarts or powers off.
■ Actions menu:
✔ Configuration File: Opens the Configuration File page, which is used for downloading the ini file to a folder on your PC, or for uploading an ini file to the device (see Configuration File).
✔ Auxiliary Files: Opens the Auxiliary Files page, which is used for loading Auxiliary files to the device (see Loading 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 (see Software Upgrade).
✔ Switchover: Opens the High Availability Maintenance page, which is used for switching between Active and Redundant unit (see Initiating an HA Switchover).
✔ Configuration Wizard: Opens the SBC Configuration Wizard, which is used for quick-and-easy configuration of the device (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.

4

Alarm bell icon displaying the number of active alarms generated 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 table is displayed. If the device is in HA mode, the icon displays the number of currently active alarms raised by both Active and Redundant devices as well as the highest severity of these active alarms. 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:

■ Displays information of the currently logged-in user (see Viewing Logged-In User Information)
■ Change Password button to change your login password (see Changing Your Login Password)
■ Log Out button to log out the Web session (see Logging Off the Web Interface)

6

The icon provides a drop-down list of document names (e.g., Release Notes, Installation Manual and User's Manual) that if clicked, opens the document (resource) from AudioCodes website. For private labeling (customizing Web interface) when this icon is automatically removed from the toolbar, see Displaying Referenced Document List.

7

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.

8

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.

■ Back button: Goes back to the previously accessed page.
■ 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.

9

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

10

Tab bar containing tabs pertaining to the selected menu:

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

11

SRD filter, allowing you to filter configuration tables by SRD when your configuration includes multiple SRDs. For more information, see Filtering Tables in Web Interface by SRD.

12

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

13

Work pane where configuration pages are displayed.