Glossary

Box

A box is an element of the page of a service, that contains several configuration option.

Client

is a user connecting to the hotspot. It is sometimes called hotspot user

GREEN IP

is the IP Address of the GREEN zone, i.e., of the LAN in which the Endian UTM Appliance is located.

Module

By module it is intended each of the items displayed in the Main Navigation bar (System, Status, Logs and so on), which groups together a set of functionalities.

Multiselect box

A special box which displays a list of available items on the right-hand side, a list of ‘active’ or selected items on the left-hand side, and a search textbox on top. Some also allow to specify, for each allowed item, a characteristic (e.g., that the item is required or optional).

Pagination

Pagination allows table containing lot of entries to be split into two or more parts when the number of entries exceeds the pagination value, showing only one part at a time. Currently available only for the hotspot and the logs, this value can be defined under Hotspot ‣ Settings and Menubar ‣ Logs ‣ Settings. It is possible to browse through the pages by clicking on the First, Previous, Next, and Last links above the table.

Plugin

Plugins are the boxes present in the dashboard.

Smarthost

An SMTP relay server that instead of delivering an e-mail directly to the recipient, sends it to an intermediate server that will carry out the final delivery. Smarthosts usually require authentication, as oppesed to open relay server, who do not.

Tab

Tabs are sub-pages of a main service that are used to split and keep organised all the configuration option of that service.

The Zones

Each of the 4 subnets managed by the Endian UTM Appliance: GREEN, RED, BLUE, and ORANGE.

User

is someone who uses the Endian UTM Appliance.

User agent

The user agent of a web browser is the string that every browser sends as identification when requesting a web page. It contains several information about the browser and the system. For example:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; it; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0

A complete list of user agent strings can be found on the http://www.useragentstring.com/ website.