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eBox users guide

Jorge Arcas

Antonio Iglesias Soria

Héctor Blanco Alcaine

Enrique José Hernández Blasco

Javier Amor García

Copyright © 2005 Warp Networks S.L., DBS Servicios Informáticos S.L.

Copyright © 2006-2008 Warp Networks S.L.

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, California 94305, USA.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
1.1. Who is intended this guide for?
1.2. What is eBox?
1.3. Terminology
1.4. A first contact with the user interface
2. System configuration
2.1. User interface general configuration
2.1.1. Password change
2.1.2. Language selection
2.1.3. Management Interface TCP Port
2.2. Backup
2.2.1. Backup modes
2.2.2. Saving your current state
2.2.3. Backup Restore
2.2.4. Backups' list
2.3. System Halt/Reboot
2.4. Bug reports generation
2.5. Date/Time Configuration
2.6. Module status
3. Network Configuration
3.1. Network interfaces
3.1.1. Virtual interfaces
3.2. DNS Servers
3.3. Diagnostic tools
3.4. Gateways
3.5. Balance traffic and multigateway rules
3.5.1. Requirements
3.5.2. Balance traffic
3.5.3. Multigateway rules
3.6. Routes
4. Network objects
4.1. What the network objects are?
4.2. Network objects management
5. Network services
5.1. Network services in eBox
5.2. Network services management
6. Firewall
6.1. Firewall in eBox
6.2. Port Redirects
6.3. Packet filter
7. System updates
7.1. Configuration
7.2. eBox components
7.3. System updates
8. HTTP Proxy
8.1. General configuration
8.2. Filter settings
8.3. Policy establishment
9. NTP Server
9.1. NTP Server
10. User management
10.1. User accounts
10.2. User groups
11. Printers
11.1. Add new printers
11.2. Printers administration
12. File sharing
12.1. File Sharing
12.2. User and group shared folders
13. Mail server
13.1. General Settings
13.2. Domain management
13.3. Accounts and mail aliases
14. DHCP Server
14.1. DHCP Server
15. DNS service
15.1. DNS cache
15.2. DNS server
16. Jabber Server
16.1. Jabber Server
17. Certification Authority Management
17.1. Prerequisites
17.2. Overview of Certification Authority Management
17.3. CA's certificate creation
17.4. Certificates creation
17.5. Actions upon certificates
17.5.1. Download files
17.5.2. Revoke
17.5.3. Renew
18. OpenVPN Service
18.1. Virtual Private Network service
18.2. Typical scenarios
18.2.1. Road warrior
18.2.2. Connect two offices with eBox and OpenVPN
19. Traffic shaping
19.1. Introduction
19.2. Requirements
19.3. Management
19.3.1. Interface selection
19.3.2. Rules
19.3.2.1. Matching packets
19.3.2.2. Shaping decision
20. eBox control center
20.1. Control center description
20.2. Control center and eBox communication
20.2.1. Control center setup
20.2.2. Join and quit eBoxes
20.2.3. eBox configuration
20.3. Control center configuration scripts
20.3.1. Access to the control center group of eBoxes
20.3.2. Handling an eBox configuration using a remote proxy

List of Figures

6.1. Firewall rules set
18.1. Road warrior scenario
18.2. eBox OpenVPN server vs. eBox OpenVPN client
20.1. Control center scenario

List of Examples

3.1. Static route use case
5.1. Service configuration example
20.1. Join an eBox called Foo
20.2. Accessing to an eBox proxy
20.3. Calling public methods from an remote eBox
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