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====== The Home page components ====== | ====== The Home page components ====== | ||
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===== The main view ===== | ===== The main view ===== | ||
- | {{screenshot:frontpage.png?600|}} | + | {{screenshot:3.3:frontpage.png?600|}} |
The home page of NAV consists of the following elements; | The home page of NAV consists of the following elements; | ||
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- A NAV link box. \\ Edit the file ''webfront/nav-links.conf''. If the config file is empty or missing the box will not show up. | - A NAV link box. \\ Edit the file ''webfront/nav-links.conf''. If the config file is empty or missing the box will not show up. | ||
- An external link box. \\ Edit the file ''webfront/external-links.txt''. If the config file is empty or missing the box will not show up. | - An external link box. \\ Edit the file ''webfront/external-links.txt''. If the config file is empty or missing the box will not show up. | ||
- | - Contact information. \\ Edit the file ''webfront\contact-information.txt''. Relevant information is typically email and phone number to network and/or system operations. | + | - Contact information. \\ Edit the file ''webfront/contact-information.txt''. Relevant information is typically email and phone number to network and/or system operations. |
===== The NAV bar ===== | ===== The NAV bar ===== | ||
The NAV bar is always available, not only on the home page, as a navigating bar on the top. It provides buttons for login / logout, link to the toolbox, user-defined quicklinks, userinfo, and preferences. | The NAV bar is always available, not only on the home page, as a navigating bar on the top. It provides buttons for login / logout, link to the toolbox, user-defined quicklinks, userinfo, and preferences. | ||
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==== Login / logout ==== | ==== Login / logout ==== | ||
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controls which tools he or she may access. | controls which tools he or she may access. | ||
- | The user will be automatically logged out from NAV after a configurable time of inactivity. Adjust this parameter by altering the ''timeout'' value in ''webfront/webfront.conf''. The default value is FIXME 24 hours??? | + | The user will be automatically logged out from NAV after a configurable time of inactivity. Adjust this parameter by altering the ''timeout'' value in ''webfront/webfront.conf''. The default value is 1 hour (3600 seconds). |
=== Use LDAP authentication === | === Use LDAP authentication === | ||
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If you will have many NAV users and your organization's user database is available through LDAP, you should consider enabling LDAP authentication for the NAV web interface. | If you will have many NAV users and your organization's user database is available through LDAP, you should consider enabling LDAP authentication for the NAV web interface. | ||
LDAP configuration and usage [[ldapauthentication|is documented here]] | LDAP configuration and usage [[ldapauthentication|is documented here]] | ||
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==== The tool box ==== | ==== The tool box ==== | ||
- | The toolbox lists all the NAV tools with a brief explaination and lets you navigate to your tool of interest. | + | The toolbox lists all the NAV tools with a brief explanation and lets you navigate to your tool of interest. \\ The buildup of the tool box is based upon ''*.tool''-files in the ''/usr/share/nav/tools'' directory. Each tool file points to an icon, has a name, url, textual description and priority. The priority is basis for the order the various tools are presented in the toolbox. |