Administrator's Guide - Kerio Software Archive

3.3 Administration Console - view preferences
Detection of the Kerio Control Engine connection failure
Administration Console is able to detect the connection failure automatically. The failure is
usually detected upon an attempt to read/write the data from/to the server (i.e. when the Apply
button is pressed or when a user switches to a different section of Administration Console).
In such case, a connection failure dialog box appears where the connection can be restored.
After you remove the cause of the connection failure, the connection can be restored. Administration
Console provides the following options:
• Apply & Reconnect — connection to the server will be recovered and all changes done
in the current section of the Administration Console before the disconnection will be
saved,
• Reconnect — connection to the server will be recovered without saving any changes
performed in the particular section of the console before the disconnection.
If the reconnection attempt fails, only the error message is shown. You can then try to
reconnect using the File → Restore connection option from the main menu, or close the window
and restore the connection using the standard procedure.
Note: After a connection failure, the Administration interface is redirected and opened at the
login page automatically. Any unsaved changes will get lost.
3.3 Administration Console - view preferences
Many sections of the Administration Console are in table form where each line represents
one record (e.g. detailed information about user, information about interface, etc.) and the
columns consist of individual entries for these records (e.g. name of server, MAC address, IP
address, etc.).
The firewall administrators can define — according to their liking — the way how the
information in individual sections will be displayed. When you right-click each of the above
sections, a pop-up menu with Modify columns option is displayed. This entry opens a dialog
window where users can select which columns will be displayed/hidden.
This dialog offers a list of all columns available for a corresponding view. Use checking boxes
on the left to enable/disable displaying of a corresponding column. You can also click the
Show all button to display all columns. Clicking on the Default button will restore default
settings (for better reference, only columns providing the most important information are
displayed by default).
The arrow buttons move the selected column up and down within the list. This allows the
administrator to define the order the columns will be displayed.
The order of the columns can also be adjusted in the window view. Left-click on the column
name, hold down the mouse button and move the column to the desired location.
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