Managers Interface

SIDVault has built in a web managers interface. This allows you to easily maintain SIDVault features and options. See the screen shot below for the look of what this interface looks likes.   This is the first page you see once you have logged into SIDVault manager pages. It clearly states the SYstem information including the current status of the key.   The sections which follow will provide more details about each section and what you would use them for.

		Registration

Registration of SIDVault is important, if SIDVault is not registered all external applications connections will be refuse. When you install SIDVault it will automatically activate your 30 day trial allowing you to use SIDVault for 30 days. The registration page in the managers interface provide information about your current key information as well has contact details about how to purchase SIDVault.

		Accounts

The account section of the manager interface looks like this:   This is allows you to setup which that are allowed to authent to SIDVault to request or change information within it's database.   The above screen shot displays the default accounts that you can use and what access they have. The 'GUEST' account has only search access of the whole database. While 'manager' and 'cn=manager,dc=example,dc=com' have full access to teh database inlcuding admin rights. Admin rights allows the user to login to the managers interface. The last one '*,dc=example,dc=com' allows users which have a matching DN within the data base and also has a password field which matches what is entered, they will allow search access from this point.   It is a good idea to keep the number of accounts down, and also limit to the areas that they need access to. It's not wise to allow Guest to have full access even if you trust them.   SIDVault allows not only valid DN's but non-dn based usernames to be used. Also the DN's do NOT need to exists within the database.

		Site Stats

This section is the most used, as it list all the active module, Failed modules, IP security rules, current connections, and also past history of the connections. This screen looks like this:   The past history only lists the last 100 IP's per module, it also lists when it was lasted accessed, now many connections it has made and the amount of data sent/received. This can be useful in locating any unwanted connections, or which IP's are heavly using SIDVault and could be looked into.

		Setup

This section are the common settings that you might which to change or look into.   Security Security of your data is important which is why this section is first. This section covers who is allowed to access the database.   Modules Security of your data is important which is why this section is first. This section covers who is allowed to access the database.   Base DN's SIDVault supports multiple base dn, allowing your database to support multiple domains within one database for easier maintance.   Sucking The easiest way to populate a LDAP server is to import the DATA from an LDIF file or suck the data from another LDAP server.

		Advance Setup

This section covers more complated features and before changing or using these features you should read the manual.   Schema's This allow you to view the schemas currently setup.   Backup This allows you to preform a complete DataBase backup.   Replicates This will allow multiple SIDVault severs to replicate data changes between each other.   Directories These are the base directories SIDVault uses.   HTTP Settings HTTP settings used by the HTTP module.   DataBase These are the default database settings. You should NOT change these settings once you have added data to the database.   Referrals Allows you to setup SIDVault to refer to other LDAP servers.

		Logs and Debug

The log and debug sections are used to assist is locating any problems that could arrise. This section is rearly used but is here for completeness.