Starting Administration

The administration is run entirely via your browser. To do this, vWAF starts a web server. By default, this server receives queries on port 8082.

Opening

You can access the vWAF administration server via a link on the System > Application Firewall page of the Brocade Virtual Traffic Manager (Traffic Manager) administration server (Admin UI). There is no separate login required.

A separate login page does appear after you’ve been logged out by the system automatically after some period of inactivity. In this case, enter your Traffic Manager username and password.

Home page

After first-time configuration has been completed, and after a successful login, the administration interface home page appears:

The home page provides you with an overview of the current configuration and the most important status information:

• Info

  Shows important current information, such as notifications about available updates

• Applications

  Lists all applications and shows which rulesets are active and which rulesets are loaded (see When Changes Are Saved and Become Active). A colored symbol also indicates the current attack status. If you use baseline protection, this section in addition shows whether your baselines are up to date (see Baseline Protection.)

  You can:

  • click view stats to open the statistics view for an application (see Application Statistics)
  • click the colored attack status symbol or the name of a protection or detection ruleset to open the log file view (see Log Files)
  • click the name of the loaded ruleset to directly enter Version Control (see Version Control)
• Cluster Management

  Lists your cluster nodes and provides a link to Cluster Management. Enabled and active nodes are displayed in green color. When you click an entry on the list, this opens the Cluster Slave Statistics view. See Managing Deciders.

• User Info

  Shows the time and date of the most recent login of another user (or yourself), as well as the time and date of the most recent failed login and a link to User Management.

• Version Information

  Shows your current product version number.

• Default Error Log
  Lists the most recent entries of the Default Error Log.

What can you see and what can you do?

It depends on your individual user rights what data you can see, which functions you can use, and which settings you can make. Also see Available Features .

ATTENTION
This documentation describes the full set of features. If you don’t find a particular menu item on your user interface, if you can’t access a particular function, or if you can’t change particular data, most likely your user rights don’t allow you to do so. If you’re one of the persons who do the initial setup, or if you’ve been assigned to one of the user groups “zeusafm Administrator” or “Application Administrator”, we recommend that you read through the full documentation. If you’ve been assigned to a custom user group with more restricted user rights, please contact the person who has enabled your account as to find out which features you will actually need.