Install and Configure Zentyal Web Interface

Zentyal (ebox is renamed to Zentyal) is an open source unified network server software package for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Zentyal can act as a Gateway, Network Infrastructure Manager, Unified Threat Manager, Office Server, Unified communications Server or a combination of them. Besides, Zentyal includes a development framework to ease the development of new Unix based services.

Zentyal (eBox Platform) development was first published in 2005 as an open-source, collaborative project of two companies. On 16 November 2006 Zentyal (eBox Platform) was officially approved as a NEOTEC project, receiving public funds from the CDTI (a Spanish public organization, under the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism) to complete the development of version 1.0. Zentyal (eBox Platform) was first included in Ubuntu in 2007, in the Gutsy Gibbon Tribe 3, the third alpha release of Ubuntu 7.10. The first stable release candidate of Zentyal (eBox Platform 1.0) was published in 2008.

Update your system by run this command from your ubuntu system

sudo apt-get update

After successfully updating, Check you should have another user account in your ubuntu pc except root account. This another account will be login user of your Zentyal Web Interface

To install the Zentyal Web Interface, run this command from your

sudo apt-get install ebox

During the installation you may be asked to supply a password for the ebox user, if not then no need to worry just login with your another ubuntu pc login except root.

After successfully installation of Zentyal(ebox), You can access your Zentyal Web Interface by going through this link: https://youripaddress/ebox

An important thing to remember when using eBox is that when configuring most modules there is a Change button that implements the new configuration. After clicking the Change button most, but not all, modules will then need to be Saved. To save the new configuration click on the “Save changes” link in the top right hand corner. Once you make a change that requires a Save, the link will change from green to red

eBox Modules

By default all eBox Modules are not enabled, and when a new module is installed it will not be automatically enabled.

For to enable the modules just right click on Modules status in left panel and select the modules. After doing any changes don't forget to save changes.

Default Modules

This section provides a quick summary of the default eBox modules.

• System: contains options allowing configuration of general eBox items.
• General: allows you to set the language, port number, and contains a change password form.
• Disk Usage: displays a graph detailing information about disk usage.
• Backup: is used to backup eBox configuration information, and the Full Backup option allows you to save all eBox information not included in the Configuration option such as log files.
• Halt/Reboot: will shutdown the system or reboot it.
• Bug Report: creates a file containing details helpful when reporting bugs to the eBox developers.
• Logs: allows eBox logs to be queried depending on the purge time configured.
• Events: this module has the ability to send alerts through rss, jabber, and log file.
• Available Events:
• Free Storage Space: will send alert if free disk space drops below a configured percentage, 10% by default.
• Log Observer: unfortunately this event does not work with the eBox version shipped with Ubuntu 7.10.
• RAID: will monitor the RAID system and send alerts if any issues arise.
• Service: sends alerts if a service restarts multiple times in a short time period.
• State: alerts on the state of eBox, either up or down.
• Dispatchers:
• Log: this dispatcher will send event messages to the eBox log file /var/log/ebox/ebox.log.
• Jabber: before enabling this dispatcher you must first configure it by clicking on the “Configure” icon.
• RSS: once this dispatcher is configured you can subscribe to the link in order to view event alerts.

Install Additional Modules

Here is a quick description of other available eBox modules. For to add follwing modules in your Zentyal Web Interface just run command from your terminal one by one Syntax: sudo apt-get install pkg-name

PackageName	ModulesName	Description
ebox-ca	Zentyal - Certification Authority	Configure a Certificate Authority for the server
ebox-dhcp	Zentyal - DHCP Service	Configuring a DHCP server with an interface
ebox-dns	Zentyal - DNS Service	Configure your dns server
ebox-firewall	Zentyal - Firewall	Configures firewall rules for all chain
ebox-network	Zentyal - Network Configuration	Allows configuration of the server's network
ebox-ntp	Zentyal - NTP Service	Set Network Time Protocol Options
ebox-objects	Zentyal - Network Objects	Configuration of Network Objects, which allow you to assign a name to an IP address or group of IPs
ebox-openvpn	Zentyal - VPN Service	Setup your vpn server through OpenVPN
ebox-printers	Zentyal - Printer Sharing	Configure your printers
ebox-samba	Zentyal - File Sharing	Configuration Samba service for file sharing
ebox-services	Zentyal - Network Services	Check configuration of your available services to the network
ebox-squid	Zentyal - HTTP Proxy (Cache and Content Filter)	Configuration your Squid proxy server
ebox-usersandgroups	Zentyal - Users and Groups	Through thiss module you can manage users and groups contained in an OpenLDAP LDAP directory

Now you should have completely working Zentyal Web Interface with modules. You can manage your server networks. If there is any issue in installation check log, internet should be work duration of intallation.