Introduction to the WebUI

This chapter provides instructions for how to configure special features of the Quantum SparkAppliance with its web application interface (WebUI).

See the Quantum SparkAppliance Getting Started Guide for your appliance model. After you run the First Time Configuration Wizard , you connect to the appliance with a browser (with the appliance's IP or, if the appliance is used as a DNS proxy or DHCP server, to http://my.firewall). It redirects to a secure HTTPS site and asks for administrator credentials. When you log in, you can select the Save user name checkbox to save the administrator's user name. The name is saved until you clear the browser's cookies.

When you log in successfully, the WebUI opens to Home > System. From the left pane you can navigate between the different pages of each tab:

  • Home

  • Device

  • Access Policy

  • Threat Prevention

  • VPN

  • Users & Objects

  • Logs & Monitoring

At the top of every WebUI page, the toolbar displays these buttons:

Icon

Description

Search

Enter text in the search field.

Starting in R81.10.15: Click to open a Command Line Interface window. After you log in with your user name and password, you can run any command in Gaia ClishClosed The default shell of the Gaia CLI or Expert mode without the need to leave the appliance WebUI or connect via SSH.

Use case - Technical users or developers can use this command line interface to debug directly from the WebUI during remote sessions.

Notes:

  • This tool is only available for Super Administrators.

  • After you open the Command Line Interface, there is a 60 second idle period before you are logged out of the command line. Click Connect to log in again.

  • To minimize the Command Line Interface, click the "-" in the top right corner. The session remains active. To restore the minimized interface, click the icon again.

  • To terminate the Command Line session, click the "X" in the top-right corner of the command line interface screen.

Click to contact Support.

Click to log out of the WebUI session.

Click to open the online Help (located below the toolbar).

To log in to the WebUI in a language other than English:

On the browser page that shows the Login window, select the language link at the bottom of the page.

  • Japanese

  • Simplified Chinese

  • Traditional Chinese

The log in page changes immediately to the selected language. The next login from the same computer is in the selected language (saved in a browser cookie). The language preference is kept until you clear the browser's cookies.

Note - If the user's locale matches a localized WebUI, the Login window automatically loads in the specified language. Only English is supported as the input language.