About the Management Console

The Scalix Management Console (SAC) is a browser-based application that enables administration and management of a Scalix messaging system through an easy-to-use GUI. It is a separate component of Scalix that users can access with any approved browser on either Microsoft Windows or Linux workstations.

SAC provides efficient access to a wide range of Scalix server options, including user account management, starting and stopping server services, administering queues, public distribution list or group management, and changing low-level server configuration settings. It also provides system monitoring to assess the status of processes and resources.

SAC enables most day-to-day system administration tasks. For more advanced server setup tasks or high-end procedures, use the extensive Linux-based command line interface (CLI). While SAC provides a single interface to access all servers on a network, the CLI only manages one server at a time. For more information on the CLI, see the Scalix Administration Guide.

Some maintenance tasks performed in SAC:

• User account management Group management (public distribution lists)
• Management of shared resources such as conference rooms, printers and projectors
• Starting and stopping server services and daemons
• Monitoring queues
• Changing server configurations
• Monitoring the system to assess the state of processes, resources and the load on Scalix queues

You also can extend the console to perform many customized tasks through the use of Plugins, which are scripts that perform many frequently-repeated actions such as checking CPU or disk usage, scanning logs, etc.

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