Web interface, users, certificates, backups and high availability.
- Serial console access — The following device families offer a mini-usb connection which can be used for serial communication:
- Local users (how-to) — With the local user manager in Ixolate one can add users and groups and define the privileges for granting access to certain parts of the GUI (Web…
- Two-factor setup (how-to) — This how-to will show you how to setup a One-time Password 2 Factor Authentication using Ixolate and Google’s Authenticator. All services of Ixolate…
- Setup Self-Signed Certificate Chains — This how-to describes the process of creating self-signed certificate chains with Ixolate as PKI (Public Key Infrastructure).
- High availability setup (how-to) — One of the more powerful features of Ixolate is to set-up a redundant firewall with automatic fail-over option. This chapter describes step by step…
- Web interface — This article explains the basics of the Ixolate Graphical User Interface or GUI for short.
- Dashboard — The Dashboard is the first page you will see after you log into Ixolate. Additionally, it can be accessed via Lobby › Dashboard. The Dashboard…
- System settings — Besides the configuration options that every component has, Ixolate also contains a lot of general settings that you can tweak. This page contains an…
- Access / User Management — The user manager of Ixolate allows for controlling access to the different part (pages) of the configurator as well as controlling access to…
- Two-factor authentication — Two-factor authentication also known as 2FA or 2-Step Verification is an authentication method that requires two components, such as a pin/password +…
- Certificates — In Ixolate, certificates are used for ensuring trust between peers. To make using them easier, Ixolate allows creating certificates from the front-…
- Backups — The configuration section contains some tools to keep track of your setup.
- High availability — Ixolate utilizes the Common Address Redundancy Protocol or CARP for hardware failover. Two or more firewalls can be configured as a failover group.…
- Monitoring (Monit) — Ixolate uses Monit for monitoring services. Monit has quite extensive monitoring capabilities, which is why the configuration options are extensive…