The Global menu across the top of the user interface contains these icons to edit global options, perform administrative tasks, and access additional resources:
From the User (Avatar icon) menu, you can select the following options:
• | User Account – Displays the name of the user that is currently logged in to the UI. The default UI user account is root. From this menu you can view and edit your user account details. |
• | Theme – Use to select a color theme for the UI. |
• | Logout – Use to log out of the appliance. |
From the Options menu, you can select from the following options:
• | Inventory Sync – Use to update the inventory of protected virtual machines and databases. |
• | Check for updates – Use to check for appliance updates. |
• | Deduplication Settings – Applies to Unitrends Backup appliances only. Use to modify the appliance deduplication level. |
Note: Ransomware detection functionality requires Level 3.
• | Set Language – Use to select the language for UI text. |
From the Help drop-down menu, you can select from the following options:
• | Online Help – Displays the online help for your Unitrends appliance. |
• | Community - Select to access Unitrends self-help communities. |
• | Open Support Tunnel – Select to open a support tunnel while working with Unitrends Support. Select Close Support Tunnel when you are through working with the Support Engineer. |
• | Register Asset for Support – Select to register the appliance for Unitrends Support services. |
• | Product Tour – Select to open a tour that assists with registering a virtual host and creating a backup job, and shows you around the interface. |
• | Feedback – Select to send product feedback and enhancement requests to Unitrends. |
• | About – Select to view appliance software, browser, and hardware information, such as appliance name, IP address, version, processor type, memory, and asset tag. |
• | Release Features - Select to view a description of the features added in the current release. |
Click the Alert icon to view the current list of alerts for the appliance. Alerts include appliance errors, warnings, and notifications. Colored icons indicate the severity level of each alert. Potential ransomware infection is indicated by the skull and crossbones icon:
For further information on ransomware alerts, see Ransomware detection
Clicking an alert opens the alert details. Clicking on View More Alerts opens the Alerts report. An alert is automatically removed once the condition has been resolved. You can manually remove all alerts by clicking the garbage can icon or delete one alert by selecting it and clicking Dismiss Alert in the details box.