Chapter 1 – Setting Up And Administering The Router

The rightmost or configuration frame presents the configuration for the currently selected subsystem, or in the case of signing-on, the home page window. The home page window presents an annotated view of the front of the chassis as well as a number of important system parameters. These parameters include:

The router uptime and load averages for the past 1, 5 and 15 minutes. Under normal operation the load average should be less than 2.0.

The disk usage. A disk usage higher than 92% requires attention.

The memory usage, indicating the amount of memory used by applications. Under normal operation memory usage should be less than 60%.

The chassis temperature.

Any major alarms, such as the failure of hardware components.

Figure 12: RuggedRouter Web Interface Main Menu Window

The index frame presents a number of entries with associated icons:

The icon forces home page window to be redisplayed.

The icon signifies that the next level contains a menu of menus.

The icon signifies that clicking the entry will run a single menu.

The icon logs out of Webmin.

The menu system entries are composed of the Webmin, System, Servers, Networking and Maintenance menus.

The Webmin Menu provides the ability to:

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