The home page of NAV consists of the following elements;

1. A welcome message to anonymous and logged in NAV users.
   Edit the files webfront/welcome-anonymous.txt and webfront/welcome-registered.txt.
2. A display of operational messages, if any.
   You add and modifiy messages with the messages tool.
3. An overview of boxes that are down, if any.
   A link to the Status tool is provided for further details.
4. Contact information.
   Edit the file webfront\contact-information.txt. Relevant information is typically email and phone number to network and/or system operations.

Prior to NAV 3.3 the home page had a NAV link box and an external link box. These are no longer available. Please note that toolbar provides a quicklink that is per user configurable (see navigational preferences below).

The tool bar is always available, not only on the home page. It provides buttons for login / logout, link to the toolbox, user-defines quicklinks, userinfo, and preferences.

Login to get access to more NAV tools. The NAV administrator must first add you as a user using the user administration panel. Each user has a certain set of privileges that i.e. regulates which tools he or she may access.

The toolbox lists all the NAV tools with a brief explaination and lets you navigate to your tool of interest.

Userinfo displays information about you and lets you change your password.

Preferences contains two subtools; navigational preferences and status page preferences. In both cases we are talking about your personal preferences - a means of altering the look and feel of your NAV user account.

Choose which tools you would like to include as quicklinks, easily reached from the NAV main page. You may add any url, NAV local or external.
Two examples using this “Add personal link” option:

• You want a link to the Report tool from Quicklink #1: Simply add Name=Report, URL=/report and choose use in quicklink #1.
• You want a link to www.cisco.com from Quicklink #2: Add Name=Cisco, URL=http://www.cisco.com and choose use in quickink #2.

(Note: The admin user (must be username admin) has special privileges when using 'Add personel link'. Changes he make takes effect for new and anonymous users. Existing users quicklinks will not be changed.)

Use this tool to alter the view of the status page. You may include more monitoring status on the status page (add new section). You may also adopt filters to suppress certain alarms and thus only displays those of your interest.

/etc/nav/webfront is the directory for configuring the NAV home page. Add your welcome message to users in the the various welcome-files, edit your contact information and more.

webfront.log gives information on failed logins and other issues. This log file is not there per default, Morten knows what to do