Carbonio Admin Panel Overview

Carbonio Admin Panel Overview#

Carbonio Admin Panel is the component that allows access to the administration functionalities of Carbonio. Like for every other component, it can be reached using a supported browser and point it to https://acme.example:6071/, replacing acme.example with your domain.

Getting Started with the Carbonio Admin Panel#

To access the Carbonio Admin Panel, you need an account that is marked as Administrator. The installation process creates by default one Global Administrator, whose username is zextras@acme.example, but its password is empty and needs to be configured from the CLI using the command shown in Section Set or Change Password. When a password expires and the Admin tries to login, an informative dialog will be show, which allows to change password.

Once logged in, more Admins can be added from the Carbonio Admin Panel; please refer to section How to Create an Administrator for directions.

The zextras and zextras@example.com users

There is a clear distinction between these two users, which are intended to execute different tasks:

zextras

This the unix account of the administrator and must be used to carry out administrative tasks from the command line.

zextras@example.com

This is the default administrator user to be used to access the Admin UI and manage Carbonio from the web interface.

Carbonio Admin Panel allows to manage the Carbonio domains, mailstores, accounts, COS, and privacy settings. The overall organisation of the panel is similar to the others components: a the Top Bar allows quick creation of a new domain or COS by clicking the CREATE button, while navigation items are on the left-hand column.

Note

Any input field marked with an asterisk (*) will be treated as mandatory. The system prevents form submission when required fields are left empty. For example, see the image below:

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The landing page is shown in Fig. 5 and Fig. 6.

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Fig. 5 The upper part of Admin Panel’s landing page#

The upper part contains information about the logged in administrator, the version of Carbonio and, on the top-right corner a user menu to be clicked to go to the documentation or log out, right above the date and time of the last login.

Moreover, clicking on either of the boxes will open the Carbonio Admin Panel page for the Accounts and distribution list, respectively.

The list of Notifications follows: click the GO TO NOTIFICATION button to open the dedicated page.

A banner will be shown in case the Maintenance is expired, which upon clicking will take you to the Subscriptions page where you can check the license details and enter a new token.

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Fig. 6 The lower part of Admin Panel’s landing page#

In the lower part are shown the versions of Carbonio and of Carbonio Core for all the servers defined within the Carbonio infrastructure. The button GO TO MAILSTORES SERVERS LIST allows to open the Storage ‣ Global Servers ‣ Server List page (see Storage).

Logout New Behavior for Webmail and Admin Panel#

An administrator can sign in using the same credentials to both the Webmail and the Admin Panel at the same time maintaining two separate active sessions: one for each interface.

Logging out from one interface now affects only that interface.

  • Logging out of Webmail terminates the Webmail session only. The user remains signed in to Admin Panel.

  • Logging out of Admin Panel terminates the Admin Panel session only. The user remains signed in to Webmail.

Previously, logging out from either interface would end the session for both. This behavior has been changed so each logout action is isolated to its own UI. Each interface now manages logout independently.