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Chapter 30 Managing Remote Access VPNs on ASA and PIX 7.0+ Devices
Customizing Clientless SSL VPN Portals
•Title Panel—Determine whether the Portal page will have a title displayed in the web page itself.
If you enable the title panel, you can specify the title, font, font size and weight, styles, and colors
used. You can also select a File object that identifies a logo graphic. For more information about the
settings, see SSL VPN Customization Dialog Box—Title Panel, page33-39.
•Too lb ar —Determine whether the Portal page will have a toolbar, which contains a field for entering
a URL to browse. For more information about the settings, see SSL VPN Customization Dialog
Box—Toolbar, page33-45.
•Applications—Determine which application buttons will appear on the page. For more information
about the settings, see SSL VPN Customization Dialog Box—Applications, page 33-46.
•Custom Panes—Determine how you want to organize the body of the Portal page. The default is a
single column with no internal panes. You can create a multiple-column layout, create internal panes
that display text or references to URLs, and determine in which column and row to place the panes.
For more information about the settings, see SSL VPN Customization Dialog Box—Custom Panes,
page 33-46.
•Home Page—Determine how and whether to display URL lists on the home page, and whether to
use your own web page for the main body of the Portal page. For more information about the
settings, see SSL VPN Customization Dialog Box—Home Page, page 33-48.
Step 8 Select Logout Page to configure the settings of the page displayed when a user logs out of the SSL VPN.
You can configure the title, message text, fonts, and colors. For more information about the settings, see
SSL VPN Customization Dialog Box—Logout Page, page 33-49.
Step 9 (Optional) Under Category, select a category to help you identify this object in the Objects table. See
Using Category Objects, page 6-12.
Step 10 (Optional) Select Allow Value Override per Device to allow the properties of this object to be redefined
on individual devices. See Allowing a Policy Object to Be Overridden, page 6-18.
Step 11 Click OK to save the object.
Localizing SSL VPN Web Pages for ASA Devices
Localization is the process of providing text in a language that is appropriate for the target users. When
you create an SSL VPN Customization object for defining the look of browser-based clientless SSL VPN
web pages hosted on an ASA device, you can configure the pages to use the desired language.
To see localized web pages correctly, users must configure their browsers to use UTF-8 encoding (for
example, in Internet Explorer, select View > Encoding > Unicode (UTF-8). They also must install the
required fonts or language support files for their language using the Regional and Language Options
control panel. On the Languages tab, click Details to install the desired languages, and select the
appropriate supplemental language settings for East Asian, complex scripting, and right-left languages.
On the Advanced tab, select the desired code page conversion tables. If users do not configure the
browser correctly, they might see boxes instead of characters.
There are two techniques you can use to localize SSL VPN web pages that are hosted on an ASA device.
These techniques are not mutually exclusive; you can use both of them. These are the techniques:
•Configure the SSL VPN Customization object using the desired language—When you create the
SSL VPN Customization object, you can enter text for labels and messages in non-English,
non-ASCII languages in UTF-8 encoding. To enter non-ASCII languages in UTF-8 encoding, you
must configure Windows with the correct locale setting and have the required fonts installed. Use
the Regional and Language Options control panel to configure your system and install files required