3.2.3.1. Procedure – Configuring general ZMC preferences

Purpose: 

To configure general ZMC preferences, complete the following steps.

Steps: 

1. Navigate to Edit > Preferences... and select the General tab.

   

   Figure 3.9. Edit > Preferences... > General - Editing ZMC preferences

2. Edit confirmation window preferences in the Confirmations section:

   • To display a confirmation window before quitting ZMC through File > Quit or Ctrl+Q, select Confirm exit.

   • To display a confirmation window before committing the configuration changes to a component, select Confirm commit component.

   • To display a confirmation window before reverting the configuration changes to a component, select Confirm revert component.

   • To display a confirmation window before uploading the configuration changes to a component, select Confirm upload component.

   • Commit and Upload can be combined into a single action, so that if the configuration changes are required to reach the firewall immediately -and not just the ZMS database-, it can be done with a single click. To combine Commit and Upload, select Actions follow dependent components.

3. Edit tree-related preferences in the Trees section:

   • Expand menu tree.

   • Expand trees in plugins.

4. Edit text editor font-specific preferences in the Font section:

   To configure the Text editor font of ZMC, click . Select the font Family, Style and the font Size and click OK.

5. Edit result dialog-specific preferences in the Result dialog section:

   • Scroll to the last line.

   • Keep the results after closing the window.

6. The status of the interfaces is automatically updated periodically. To configure the update frequency, edit the Program status section:

   Auto refresh in seconds.

   To turn off auto-refresh, deselect Auto refresh.

7. Edit the length of the delay after status tooltips are displayed when hovering the mouse over the status led or status icon in the Display status tooltip section:

   Enter the value of the delay in Show in seconds.

   To turn off status tooltips, deselect Show.

   For details on status, see Section 3.3.6, Status indicator icons.

8. Edit browser-specific preferences in the Browser section:

   The Zorp Professional 7 Administrator Guide and Zorp Professional 7 Reference Guide are automatically installed with ZMC in HTML format and are accessible from the Help menu. The guides are opened in the default System defined browser.

   To configure a different browser, select Custom and enter in the Browser path field the full path name of the browser to use.

   Tip
   The latest version of these guides, as well as additional whitepapers and tutorials are available at the Balasys Documentation Page.

9. Edit changelog-specific preferences in the ChangeLog section:

   ZMS now records the history of configuration changes into a log file. The logs include who and when modified which component of the Zorp Gateway system. Component restarts and other similar activities are also logged, and the administrators can add comments to every action to make auditing easier. By default, ZMC displays a dialog automatically to comment the changes every time the ZMS configuration is modified, or a component is stopped, started, or restarted. The changelogs cannot be modified later.

   For details on writing changelog comments, see Procedure 3.3.4, Recording and commenting configuration changes.

   To configure when ZMS automatically opens the New changelog entry window, change Edit changelog when to:

   • Commit to automatically open the New changelog entry window after committing the configuration changes to a component.

   • Quit to automatically open the New changelog entry window only before quitting ZMC through File > Quit or Ctrl+Q.

   • Never if automatical open of the New changelog entry window is never required.