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Router VPN status

Requirements

  • Release >= v5.6

Alarm settings

The alarm settings of a router can be opened from the router interface via the button (eye). The displayed page is divided into two sections:

1. VPN status

In the "VPN status" section, you can view information about the existing VPN connection, call up configuration details and edit certain parameters.

  • If the m2s software is installed on the computer used, a VPN connection can be established automatically via the "Connect to router" button.

  • For manual setup of the VPN client, the "Download mobile access" button is available for downloading the corresponding OVPN file.

    The following adjustments can be made using the "Edit" button

    • IP service network
    • Netmasks of the service network
    • Comment
    • Mobile access of the router Press the "Send" button to transfer these settings to the router.

2. alarming

The "Alerting" section is divided into three areas:

2.1 Settings

The "Alerting" button activates or deactivates alerting:

  • Blue tick -> active alerting
  • Gray minus -> inactive alerting

2.2 Standard configuration

Basic parameters for the alarm behavior are defined here:

  1. delay in minutes
    Defines how long the VPN failure must last before a first alarm is sent.
  2. notification interval in minutes
    Defines the time interval after which - if the alarm has not been acknowledged - the next alarm is sent to the subsequent alarm group.

  3. time window in CET
    Active and inactive time periods for the alarm can be configured here. Elements and functions:

    • Slider: Selection and adjustment of active and inactive time segments
    • "Add" button: Creates a new segment that can be configured in terms of time and active/inactive.
    • "Copy" button: Transfers a day configuration to one or more other days of the week.
    • Button "Remove": Deletes the selected segment and automatically extends the previous one.
    • "Active" button: Activates/deactivates the selected segment.
    • Text fields "Start time" and "End time": Manual input fields for setting the corresponding time with additional graphic clock for mouse control

The created configuration can be saved using the "Send" button

2.3 Subscribers

Click on "Add a new alerting sequence" to create another alerting group. Within these groups, people are stored as recipients for alarm messages. All persons in alarm sequence 0 receive the first alarm - after the set delay in minutes has elapsed. Groups with a higher alarm sequence are notified one after the other if the previous group has not acknowledged the alarm within the configured notification interval.