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Working with the Web UI

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The following screen displays the ESA Web UI.

The following table describes the details of options available on the Web UI menu.

Options	Description
Dashboard	View user notifications, disk usage, alerts, server details, memory / CPU / network utilization, and cluster status
Policy Management	Manage creating and deploying policies. For more information about policies, refer Policy Management.
Key Management	Manage master data. For more information about keys, refer to the Key Management.
System	Configure Trusted Appliances Cluster, set up backup and restore, view system statistics, graphs, information, and manage services.
Logs	View logs that are generated for web services.
Settings	Configure network settings, set up certificates, manage users, roles, and licenses.
Audit Store	Manage the repository for all audit data and logs. For more information about the Audit Store, refer Audit Store. View dashboards that display information using graphs and charts for a quick understanding of the protect, unprotect, and reportect transactions performed. For more information about dashboards, refer Dashboards.

The following figure describes the icons that are visible on the ESA Web UI.

Description of ESA Web UI

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The ESA Web UI appears upon successful login. This page shows the Host to which you are attached, IP address, and the current user logged on.

This operation might require a few minutes to begin.

The different menu options are given in the following table.

Option	Using this navigation menu you can	Applicable to
Dashboard	A view-only window, which provides status at a glance – service, server, notifications, disk usage, and graphical representation of CPU, memory, and network usage.	All
Policy Management	Used to create data stores, data elements, masks, roles, keys, and deploy a policy.	ESA
Key Management	Used to view information, rotate, or change the key states of the Master Key, Repository Key, and Data Store Keys. View information for the active Key Store or switch the Key Store.	ESA
System	Has a mix of view-only windows and screens to add and update values. Start/stop services and access CLI Manager. Provide status for hardware, system, firewall, and open ports, either graphically or in values. Add high availability systems and trusted application clusters, view the performance and take backups and restore the system.	All
Logs	Used to view logs for separate tasks such as web services engine, policy management, DFSFP, and Appliance.	ESA
Settings	Update default security settings, if required, for the inbuilt anti-virus, two-factor authentication and file integrity. Upload/download configuration files, network settings, and SSH and SMTP settings. Add/delete LDAP users and passwords and activate licenses.	All
Audit Store	A repository for all audit data and logs. It is used to initialize analytics, view and analyze Insight dashboards, and manage cluster.	ESA
Cloud Gateway	Used to create certificate, tunnel, service, Rules for traffic flow management, add DSG nodes to cluster, monitor cluster health, view logs.	DSG

The following graphic illustrates the different panes in the ESA Web UI.

Viewing the logs

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Based on the products installed, you can view the logs in the Logs screen. Based on the components installed in ESA, the following are the logs are generated in the following screens:

Web Services Engine
Service Dispatcher
Appliance Logs

The information icon on the screen displays the order in which the new logs appear. If the new logs appear on top, you can scroll down through the screen the view the previously generated logs.

Managing Appliance Users

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Only authorized users can access the Appliances. These users are system users and LDAP administrative users. The roles of these users are explained in detail in the following sections.

Appliance Users

The root and local_admin users are appliance system users. These users are initialized during installation.

root and local_admin

As a root user, you can be asked to provide the root account password to log in to some CLI Manager tools. For example, Change Accounts and Passwords tool or Configure SSH tool.