• For administrators

Administration and maintenance

D-Center

D-Center manages the operation of the Secure Email software applications. D-Center is a Web-based management tool for system administrators, used for editing all the key settings of Secure Email and reviewing of collected statistics.

D-Center is divided into two main categories: system pages and instance pages.

System page includes:

  • Logs

  • Statistics

  • Server Configuration

  • Spam Filter

  • Tools

  • User Management

  • System Update

Instance page includes:

  • Logs

  • Statistics

  • Settings

  • Tools

System can have multiple administrators with different permissions.

  • Admin user permissions: There are three different access levels for each page in D-Center: no access, view only (page can be read but not edited) and full (right to edit page). Administration user permissions can be created and edited individually for each page. Menu bar changes according to the rights each administrator has been given (for example helpdesk employee only has access to logs). All the changes that are made to D-Center are logged into Audit trail. This makes it possible to see who has made changes and when.

  • Security settings for admin login: Security requirements for administrator password, such as length, capital or small letters, special characters, numbers can be defined. Passwords can be set to expire.

  • Expired passwords must be renewed after the first successful login after the password has expired. Admin user accounts can also be locked after too many failed password attempts.

  • E-mail statistics (default: off): Statistics on the usage of confidential messaging can be sent as email to a predefined address monthly or weekly and statistics of junk mail filter monthly.

  • Third party program configuration: Third party programs, such as rsyslog, postmantis, amavis and rsync, can be configured.

Console management

When required, an expert from SSH Communications Security Corporation or a trusted partner can perform maintenance tasks (for example software updates) through a secure remote connection.

Certificate manager

All certificates affecting the function of Secure Email can be managed centralized from D-Center. Certificate requests (CSR) generated by Certificate Manager are sent to SSH Communications Security Corporation manually or from D-Center when making a request. After the requested certificate has been signed, it can be installed to the system from Certificate Manager.

Administration API

Secure Email includes a HTTP Rest API through which several aspects of the software can be managed, including:

  • The creation and destruction of instances,

  • adding/removing instance mail domains,

  • activation/deactivation of instance software modules,

  • adding/removing instance UI templates, - restarting server services,

  • adding firewall rules.

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