In order to administer UTM applications using WebAdmin, WebAdmin requires various items of information (e.g. the network name of the host on which the UTM applications are running). WebAdmin records this information in various types of objects, the WebAdmin objects, and stores it in the configuration database.You can also create, edit, and delete the WebAdmin objects via the WebAdmin user interface.
For each WebAdmin object, there is a property page on which you can edit the properties of an existing object or define the properties of a new object you want to create. In addition, for each WebAdmin object type there is an object list page listing all the currently defined WebAdmin objects. These list pages have the same properties as the object list pages on which UTM objects are displayed (see Displaying object lists with WebAdmin objects).
The following types of WebAdmin objects exist:
- WebAdmin Actions
On the one hand, WebAdmin actions draw attention to a statistics threshold alert. On the other, they permit scheduled saves of the object properties of UTM applications in files on the WebAdmin server. See Actions.
- WebAdmin User
WebAdmin user objects provide information about user authorizations, for example whether or not the user who is currently signed on to WebAdmin is permitted to edit administration data and objects or has read access only.
- Hosts
Host objects describe the computers on which the UTM applications to be administered are running.
- UTM applications
These objects describe the properties of the UTM applications to be administered using WebAdmin.
- UPIC connections
These objects describe the properties of the UPIC connections between the WebAdmin application and the running UTM applications. To enable a UTM application to be administered using WebAdmin, a UPIC connection to this application must be defined.
- Collections
Applications that are to be administered jointly can be grouped together in collections. Only one application collection can be open at any one time within a WebAdmin session.
The individual WebAdmin object types and their property pages are presented in more detail in the following sections.