Quickly Navigate the GUI with Shortcuts

Many areas of the GUI have shortcut icons present in the area known as the “Breadcrumb Bar”, as seen in Figure Shortcuts Example. These shortcut icons reduce the amount of hunting required to locate related pages, allowing a firewall administrator to navigate quickly between the status page of a service, its logs, and configuration. The shortcuts for a given topic are present on each page related to that topic.

Shortcuts Example

Note

Shortcut icons only appear when their respective actions are possible and the target pages exist. Not every section has every icon.

The shortcut icons have the following effects when they appear in the GUI:

Start Service

If the service is stopped, this icon starts the service.

Restart Service

If the service is running, this icon restarts the service.

Note

Some services will stop and start, others reload the configuration. Check the documentation of each service for details.

Stop Service

If the service is running, this icon stops the service.

Related Settings

This icon navigates to the settings page for this section.

Status Page Link

This icon navigates to the status page for this section.

Log Page Link

This icon navigates to the logs page for this section.

Help Link

This icon navigates to a related help topic for this page.

The Service Status page (Status > Services) also has shortcut controls for pages related to each service, as shown in Figure Shortcuts on Service Status. The icons have the same meaning as in the above section.

Shortcuts on Service Status