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Chapter 3 WinRoute Administration

for authentication of the ﬁrewall when connecting to the administration from

another host (see Kerio Administration Console — Help).

•Administrator’s guide — this option displays the administrator’s guide in HTML

Help format. For details about help ﬁles, see Kerio Administration Console — Help

manual.

•About — this page provides information about current version of the application

(WinRoute’s administration module in this case), a link to our company’s website,

etc.

Status bar

The status bar at the bottom of the administration window displays the following information

(from left to right):

Figure3.2 AdministrationConsole status bar

•The section of the administration window currently selected in the left column. This

information facilitates navigation in the administration window when any part of the

section tree is not visible (e.g. when a lower screen resolution is selected).

•Name or IP address of the server and port of the server application (WinRoute uses

port 44333).

•Name of the user logged in as administrator.

•Current state of the Administration Console:Ready (waiting for user’s response), Load-

ing (retrieving data from the server) or Saving (saving changes to the server).

Detection of WinRoute Firewall Engine connection drop-out

Administration Console is able to detect the connection failure automatically. The failure is

usually detected upon an attempt to read/write the data from/to the server (i.e. when the Ap-

ply button is pressed or when a user switches to a diﬀerent section of Administration Console).

In such case, a connection failure dialog box appears where the connection can be restored.

After you remove the cause of the connection failure, the connection can be restored. Admin-

istration Console provides the following options:

•Apply & Reconnect — connection to the server will be recovered and all changes done

in the current section of the Administration Console before the disconnection will be

saved,

•Reconnect — connection to the server will be recovered without saving any changes

performed in the particular section of the console before the disconnection.

If the reconnection attempt fails, only the error message is shown. You can then try to recon-

nect using the File →Restore connection option from the main menu, or close the window and

restore the connection using the standard procedure.