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Dr.Web Management Web Interface |
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In this section: •Function. •Recovering Passwords for Email Archives. The Dr.Web Mail Security Suite management web interface allows you to: •view the current state of Dr.Web Mail Security Suite components, start or stop some of them; •view the status of updates and start an updating process manually, if necessary; •view the status of the product license and load a license key, if necessary; •view the list of detected threats and manage quarantined objects (only threats detected in the local file system with the Dr.Web File Checker component are displayed); •edit the settings of Dr.Web Mail Security Suite components; •connect Dr.Web Mail Security Suite to a centralized protection server or switch to the standalone mode; •start an on-demand scanning of local files (including by dragging and dropping them to the page opened in your browser). System Requirements of the Web Interface Correct operation of the web interface is guaranteed for the following web browsers: •Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 and later; •Mozilla Firefox 25 and later; •Google Chrome 30 and later. Accessing the Web Interface To access the web interface, type the following address in the address bar of your browser:
where <drweb_host> is the IP address or the name of the host on which Dr.Web Mail Security Suite including the Dr.Web HTTPD web interface server operates, and <port> is the port (on this host) listened by Dr.Web HTTPD. To access components of Dr.Web Mail Security Suite running on the local host, use the IP address 127.0.0.1 or the name localhost. By default, the port is 4443. Thus, to access the web interface on the local host by default, use the following URL:
After the connection to the management server is established, the startup page opens and displays the authentication form. To access management functions, fill in the authentication form by specifying the login and password of a user who has administrative privileges on the host on which Dr.Web Mail Security Suite operates. If needed, you can provide authorization via the web interface using a personal user certificate. To do so: 1.Create a personal certificate signed by a certificate authority certificate. 2.Import the signed certificate as a user authorization certificate in the browser that is used to connect to the management web interface. 3.In the Dr.Web HTTPD settings (the AdminSslCA parameter), specify a path to the certificate authority certificate used to sign your personal certificate. If you use a personal user certificate to authorize on the web interface, the authorization form does not appear, and the user is authorized as root. If necessary, refer to the Appendix E. Generating SSL Certificates section. Main Menu In the left pane of the web interface, which appears once you have successfully passed authentication, there is a main menu with the following items: •Main—open the main page that displays the list of installed components of Dr.Web Mail Security Suite and their status. •Threats—open a page that displays all threats detected on the server. In this section, you can manage detected threats, for example, quarantine infected objects, rescan, cure or delete malicious objects. •Settings—open a page with settings of Dr.Web Mail Security Suite components installed on the server. •Information—open a page that displays brief information about the version of this web interface and about the state of the virus databases. •Help—open a new browser tab with the help information on Dr.Web for UNIX products. •Password for attached archive with threats—display a panel for recovery of passwords for archives containing unwanted email message attachments with signs of spam, attached infected files and parts of email messages with unwanted URLs. •Scan File—display a panel for quick file scanning, which will stay available on top of any opened page of the web interface until you close this panel. •Log Out—end the current management web interface session (unavailable if the authentication with a user personal certificate is used). |