RADIUSdesk

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Working Inside the Applets

RADIUSdesk comprises of a interconnected set of applets to manage your WiFi system. Once you know your way in one applet it will be easy to get to know the next as features are similar across the applets.

Applet Windows and Panels

Items lists

When clicking on a homepage icon or Menu item the Applets open with a window listing the existing items. For instance if you click on Permanent Users, a list of existing Permanent Users appear with a set of Tools to work with.

Normally you would select the item you want to work with in the list and then click an action e.g. Edit or Delete in the Toolbar. Most tools open a panel to take you through the steps of an action.

General Tools

In the Toolbar you may find:

  • The Action Tool set
  • The Document Tool set
  • The Extra actions Tool set

Reload- Reloads the lists after making changes.

Add- Opens a New… panel to add an item.

Delete- Deletes the selected item.

Edit- Opens a panel to Edit the selected item.

Note- Adds a note to the selected item.

PDF- Generates a pdf of the Vouchers (only in the Vouchers applet).

CSV-Generates a CSV file of the current list.

Change Password- Changes the password of the selected item.

Test Radius- Tests if the selected item exists on the server back-end.

Graph- Shows a data usage graph of the selected item.

There are many more tools to be found in RADIUSdesk. These descriptions are just to get you started!

Filtering, Sorting and show/hide columns

You can filter on various columns on the lists to refine your searches.

  • As soon as you hover over the heading of a column a small down arrow will appear on the side of the column.
  • Click on this small down arrow to bring up a menu.
  • Here we can see the options to order; filter; and select columns from the menu.
  • We can supply some text to the filter menu item which will apply the filter in a 'live' manner.
  • A small filter icon on the heading column will now give a visual indication if a filter is applied to a certain column.

Sorting

  • In order to sort the list of vouchers; you can simply click on the heading of a column.
  • If the column can be sorted; a small up or down arrow will appear right next to the heading's text to indicate the sort order.
  • Not all columns can be sorted.
  • Sorting can only be done on one column at a time.

Show / hide columns

  • You can select which columns to show or hide.
  • Simply hover over any of the column headings to allow for the down arrow button with the menu to show.
  • Click on the Columns menu and select / deselect those columns that you want to show or hide.
  • This will be remembered the next time you open the applet.

The state of an applet is saved by the browser and not the server.

Some handy information

By default there are five hidden columns on the Voucher's grid can be very handy when doing troubleshooting.

Column Comment
Last accept time Time of most recent successful authentication
Last accept nas IP Address of most recent successful RADIUS client (NAS)
Last reject time Time of most recent authentication failure
Last reject nas IP Address of most recent authentication failure RADIUS client (NAS)
Last reject message Most recent reject message