Overview
Details
License Info
This section provides basic information on your 6connect license including the option to view the EULA and check your license status.
Application Settings
Time Zone: Supported Time zones are listed here: {EXT} http://www.php.net/manual/en/timezones.php. Default value is ('America/Los_Angeles') and can be modified at any time via the drop down menu
Company Name: Enter the preferred name for your company to be used.
Generic Name: This "short" name is used in abbreviated location for the "Customer" tab label, "Customer" and "Site" are common entries.
IPAM Configuration
Available ID : This is the ID Label that owns all unassigned IP resources. This is not user changeable.
Reverse ID: This is the ID Label that owns all assigned IP resources and zones not owned by a specific alternate ID. This is not user changeable.
Holding Tank ID: This is the ID Label that the Holding Tank. Upon reclaiming an IP block, the block will be assigned to the "Holding Tank ID" user for X(holding_days) time. This is not user changeable.
Holding Tank Days: This is the number of days that a block will be held in "Holding" status before being available to be moved to the Available pool, and thus ready to be assigned. By default this is initially set to 30 days.
IPv4 Block Scanner Enable: This is a beta feature that allows a user to scan a block of IPv4 space and show host counts of responding addresses.
Regions Enable: Check the box to enable "Region" tags for IP blocks. This will add an additional column to the default IPAM screen. It is treated similarly to a standard tag. You can set the values from the "Edit Tags" function and modify the values list in the IPAM Admin screen "Edit Regions".
Generic Code Per Block Enable: Check this box to enable this function. This will enable an additional field per IP Block.
Generic Code Per Block Display: Check this box to display this field.
Generic Code Per Block Name: This is the label for the Generic Code to be displayed.
Enable VLAN per Block: This toggle allows users to specify VLANs via the "Edit Tag" function. With this feature enabled, you can filter by VLAN tag in the primary IPAM interface.
Peering Parameters
ASN : Enter the ASN that will be used
Backup Parameters (local install only)
Enable mysql offsite backup : This is enabled by default. Go to the Backup section for details on this feature.
Location of mysqldump: This is the location of the mysqldump directory.
Logging Options
Log table size: This is the maximum number of records to store in the log table. Default value is 50,000,000.
Rows to remove at limit: When the value for log_table_max is reached, the number of rows to be cut from the table is the number assigned to this variable. Default value is 10,000 rows.
Local Syslog Enable: Check the box to enable syslog functionality or for local logging to the database only
Remote Log IP: Target IP address that we will send log information to
Remote Log Port: Port number for the syslog server you will send log information to
Remote Log Method: Select TCP, UDP, SSL from the dropdown for the log delivery method
Remote Log Backup IP: Target IP address for the Backup syslog server you will send log information to
Remote Log Backup Port: Port number for the Backup syslog server you will send log information to
Remote Log Backup Method: Select TCP, UDP, SSL from the dropdown for the log delivery method
Remote Log Type: Select SysLog format or JSON output
Remote Log Facility: Select the Facility - applies to syslog only
DNS Configuration
Default TTL: in seconds, default value is 3600
Default Refresh: in seconds, default value is 14400
Default Retry: in seconds, default value is 3600
Default Expire: in seconds, default value is 604800
Default Minimum: in seconds, default value is 3600
Default SOA: Server Of Authority and hostmaster contact. E.g. ns1.domain.com. hostmaster.domain.com.
Master nameservers: Set to IP Address(es) of master DNS server(s) to be added as masters {} in named.conf (IPv4 or IPv6) or Mix of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.
$GENERATE IPv4 by default: Set to '1' to generate reverse IPv4 DNS hostnames for non specific PTRs. This is similar to $GENERATE in standard bind.
$GENERATE IPv4 Suffix: Set to forward suffix to append to PTR for $GENERATE Example: .available.domain.com.
DNS Server for DNSSEC validation: required to be a non-authoritative name server.
Authentication Options
Maximum Session Idle: This setting (minutes) controls how long a session can stay idle before being forced to log in again.
RADIUS authentication options (local install only) - for implementation details, go here
Radius Enable: Check this box to enable RADIUS functionality.
Radius Server Address: Set to the IP address of your radius server. If this is specified, it will force authentication over radius.
Radius Authentication Port: Set to the port for authentication. Default port is 1812
Radius Accounting Port: Set to the port for radius accounting. Default port is 1813
Radius Key: Set to the shared key of your radius server
LDAP authentication - for implementation details, go here
LDAP Enable: check the box to enable LDAP functionality.
LDAP Server Address: Set the IP address of your LDAP server.
LDAP Port: Set the port for your LDAP server
LDAP Security: Select the security method of your LDAP server - SSL, TLS or None
LDAP Auth DN/Fetch DN: These strings are used to first authentication the 6connect user and then to retrieve their permissions. The string '%LOGIN%' should be inserted in place of the user's common name both strings. (ex: cn=%LOGIN%,ou=people,dc=6connect,dc=com)
Mapping Permissions to 6connect schema: To integrate 6connect permissions with your existing directory structure then you will need the 6connect schema. It should snap in with any existing LDAP structure and allow you to assign 6connect permissions to your existing users. You can download a copy of the schema from this section.
Templates
This is where you can edit outgoing email templates for IP block assignments