Authorizations

Lists administrator certificates that has been explicitly granted access and specific roles.

Also note the Allow Any Administrator setting which if set to "Allow any" grants the Admin role to any administrator with a valid certificate even if it is not listed. Instead with the value "Only listed", only the administrators listed in the table are allowed.

Action

Description

Add...

Adds a new authorization rule.

Fill in the Certificate serial number in hex format and the Issuer DN.

Alternatively use the ... (browse) button to upload a certificate to load it from or use the Load Current button to fill in the values from your administrator certificate.

Select the Roles that should be assigned.

Click the Add button to have the new rule saved.

Edit

For an existing authorization rule the corresponding Edit button allows for changing the values.

Make the wanted changes to the Certificate serial number field, Issuer DN field and for the Roles.

Click the Submit button to have the updated rule saved.

Remove

For an existing authorization rule the corresponding Remove button allows to remove a rule.

Confirm the removal by clicking the Remove button.

Allow Any Administrator

Before switching to allowing only listed administrator make sure your credentials are listed otherwise you will directly be denied access after the switch.

Action

Description

Switch to 'Only listed'

If the current setting is to allow any administrator then clicking this button switched to the other mode.

Switch to 'Allow Any'

If the current setting is to only allow listed administrators then clicking this button switched to the other mode.

Peer Systems

Action

Description

Allow incoming connections

Check this check box and Click the Save button in order to allow incoming connections from Peer Systems.

Save

Saves the state of the Allow incoming connections check box.

Incoming Connections

Column/Action

Description

Remote identity

The subject DN from the client certificate for the incoming connection.

Remote address

The IP address of the incoming connection.

Last seen

The date and time the connection was last made.

Authorized

If the certificate is in the Peer Systems role.

Clear

Click the button to forget the connection.

Modify Authorization

The button is visible if there is a rule for the certificate. Clicking the button opens the Edit Authorization page for the rule.

Add Authoriztion...

The link is visible if there is not a rule for the certificate. Clicking the link opens the Add Authorization page with the certificate information filled in and the Peers Role selected.