The Control Center user interface¶
Once started, Control Center shows the Domain login screen, which requires the competition, in the initial setup, of three fields:
The Domain name
The User name
The user’s Password
If the user had enabled two-factor authentication, before accessing the Domain, he would be asked to enter an additional code. For more information, see Two-Factor Authentication.
If the credentials are accepted, you will be redirected to the main view with the devices’ tree view as shown in the following figure.
With reference to the numbers in the above figure, the different areas and controls have the following meaning:
Tree view of the domain’s components or geographical map view; to make the view simpler to read, it supports an automatic grouping mechanism of homogenous elements. Each folder can contain three different types of elements: Devices, Users/Groups and Firewall policies. When in a given folder, we have elements of at least two different types and each of them is in number greater than one, they will be shown grouped as shown in the following figure.
The tree view, indicated as “MANAGE”, is useful when you need to logically manage the domain contents, the users, the groups, the permissions and the firewall rules.
The “ACCOUNT” link allows you to show the domain registration information together with the activation details.
The “OPTIONS” link allows you to manage the domain settings. For more information, see Domain settings.
The commands at the top allow to show the grid view of the devices (Device view and research), the statistics (Audit) and the page for the UBIQUITY Router (UBIQUITY Router) configuration.
In this area, from left to right, you can find the following commands:
Description
Icon
add a device to the domain
create a folder
create users and groups
definition and importing of firewall policies
rename
delete the selected item
display the device’s operations audit
refresh view
Please note that if the logged user does not have the rights to execute a certain command, the command will appear in grayed out mode.
The right side of the screen is divided into boxes that usually can be expanded or reduced using the button on the left of the name; the contents of each area changes according to the selected element populating with the indicated information.
Search box to execute searches (device view and research) within the tree view.
- The shortcut menu that allows you:
to get access to the personal page; available only after logging in to the Domain;
to get access the Domain (sign in);
to disconnect from the Domain (sign out) after logging in to it;
to get access to the settings screen (settings);
to get access to the user manual (help);
The back command that displays the previously opened page in the order in which the screens are visited.
The two buttons allow you respectively to jump to the Tree view and to the Map view.
The settings page provides several options as shown in the following list:
Action |
Description |
---|---|
LOG |
Shows the list of the operations done by Control Center during the connection phase to the server infrastructure and during the activation of the connection with the Runtime. |
NETWORK |
Contains the PROXY settings, the access server address, and, in case of private server, the importation of the Certification Authority. |
ABOUT |
Shown the information on the version of the Control Center application |
Control Center supports the keyboard shortcuts listen in the following table:
Keyboard shortcut |
Action |
Available in |
---|---|---|
Backspace |
Back to the upper folder |
File explorer |
F2 |
Open the pop-up to rename |
Domain tree, File explorer |
CTRL+F |
Moves the focus on the search field |
Domain tree |
CANC/DEL |
Deletes the selected elements with confirmation request |
Domain tree, File explorer |
F5 |
Refreshes the view |
Domain tree, File explorer |
SHIFT+CTRL+N |
Creates a new folder |
File explorer |
Keyboard |
Moves the selections focus on the elements that starts with the typed letters |
File explorer |