Novell Doc: Novell Access Manager 3.1 SP2 SSL VPN User Guide

5.1 Using the SSL VPN Home Page

Click the Home icon to display the Home page. How this page is displayed to you depends on how your organization has customized this page.

The following figure displays the default Novell SSL VPN home page.

Figure 5-1 SSL VPN Home Page

This page displays the following:

Home: Displays the customer or the product information. This page can be customized for different organizations.
Logout: Click the Logout icon to log out of the current session.
Policies: Displays the resources accessible by the user, based on the traffic policies configured for your role. The traffic policies are configured by the administrator on the server. For more information on the Policies page, see Section 5.2, Using the Policies Page.
Cleanup Options: This page lists some of the desktop cleanup options that can be selected before logging out of an active SSL VPN connection.

For more information on the Cleanup options page, see Section 5.6, Logging Out of the Active SSL VPN Session.
Log Entries: Displays ActiveX or Java applet logs. For more information on the Log Entries page, see Section 5.4, Viewing SSL VPN Logs.
Applications: Specifies steps to add desktop applications to SSL VPN. This tab is available only in the Kiosk mode of Linux and Macintosh, because in these two platforms, applications that were opened before establishing the SSL VPN connection are not enabled for SSL. For more information on the Applications page, see Section 5.5, Enabling Applications for SSL.
Username: Specifies the name of the currently logged-in user in the top left corner of the page.
Duration: Specifies the duration that the SSL VPN connection has been on.
Sent: Displays bytes sent through the tunnel.
Received: Displays bytes received through the tunnel.
Idle: Displays the time left in minutes before disconnecting, if there is no data transfer happening in the tunnel.

Status of Connection: Indicates the state of connection. The following table describes the different connection statuses:

Status	Description
<Mode>	Indicates that the Java applet or ActiveX has successfully established a connection to the SSL VPN server. It also displays the connection mode.
Disconnected	Indicates that the user has logged out of the SSL VPN server. This status is displayed when the user clicks the Exit button.
Connecting	Indicates that the connection is in progress. To avoid problems, the user must wait until a successful connection status is displayed before clicking any other button.
Disconnecting	Indicates that disconnection is in progress. To avoid problems, the user must wait until a successful disconnection status is displayed before clicking any other button.
Error: Message	Indicates that ActiveX or the Java applet has an error. Check ActiveX or the Java applet log for more information on the error. For more information on error messages, see Section A.0, Error Messages.