Configuring General Portal Settings

There are two main options for configuring a portal:

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Modify an existing layout.
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Configure a new portal.
To configure the settings on the General tab for a new portal:
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Navigate to the Portals > Portals page.
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Click the Add Portal button or the configure button next to the portal you want to configure. The Add Portal or Edit Portal screen displays.
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On the General tab, enter a descriptive name for the portal in the Portal Name field. This name will be part of the path of the SRA portal URL. For example, if your SRA portal is hosted at https://vpn.company.com, and you created a portal named “sales”, then users will be able to access the sub-site at https://vpn.company.com/portal/sales.
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NOTE: Only alphanumeric characters, hyphen (-), and underscore (_) are accepted in the Portal Name field. If other types of characters or spaces are entered, the portal name will be truncated before the first non-alphanumeric character.
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Enter the title for the Web browser window in the Portal Site Title field.
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To display a banner message to users before they login to the portal, enter the banner title text in the Portal Banner Title field.
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Enter an HTML compliant message, or edit the default message in the Login Message field. This message is shown to users on the custom login page.
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The Portal URL field is automatically populated based on your SRA appliance network address and Portal Name.
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To enable visibility of your custom logo, message, and title information on the login page, select the Display custom login page check box.
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NOTE: Custom logos can only be added to existing portals. To add a custom logo to a new portal, first complete general portal configuration, then add a logo in Adding a Custom Portal Logo .
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Select the Enable HTTP meta tags for cache control check box to apply HTTP meta tag cache control directives to the portal. Cache control directives include:

<meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache">
<meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="no-cache">
<meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="must-revalidate">

These directives help prevent clients browsers from caching SRA portal pages and other Web content.

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NOTE: Enabling HTTP meta tags is strongly recommended for security reasons and to prevent out-of-date Web pages, and data being stored in users’ Web browser cache.
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Select the Enable ActiveX Web cache cleaner check box to load an ActiveX cache control when users log in to the SRA appliance. The Web cache cleaner will prompt the user to delete all session temporary Internet files, cookies and browser history when the user logs out or closes the Web browser window. The ActiveX Web cache control is ignored by Web browsers that don’t support ActiveX.
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See Enforcing Login Uniqueness .
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See Enforcing Client Source Uniqueness .
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Specify the link(s) for the Small / Medium / Wide / Large Logo to be used with Live Tile.
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Specify the Background Color for Live Tile. If no value is specified, the default color is #0085C3.
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Specify the Site Name to be displayed for Live Tile. If no value is specified, the default is the Portal Name.

Enforcing Login Uniqueness

Login uniqueness, when enforced, restricts each account to a single session at a time. When login uniqueness is not enforced, each account can have multiple, simultaneous, sessions.

To enforce login uniqueness:
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Navigate to Portals > Portals.
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For an existing portal, click the configure icon next to the portal you want to configure. Or, for a new portal, click the Add Portal button.
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Select the Enforce login uniqueness check box.
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Click Accept.

Enforcing Client Source Uniqueness

Client source uniqueness, when enforced, prevents multiple connections from a user with the same client source address when connecting with a Dell SonicWALL client (NetExtender, Mobile Connect, Virtual Assist etc.). This prevents a user from consuming multiple licenses when a user reconnects after an unexpected network interruption.

For example, a user on an unreliable network is disconnected due to a network issue. If login uniqueness is NOT enabled, the user session on the appliance stays active for this type of disconnect until the timeout value is reached. The user reconnects and consumes a second license with the potential of consuming more licenses before the timeout disconnects them.

To enforce client source uniqueness:
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Navigate to Portals > Portals.
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For an existing portal, click the configure icon next to the portal you want to configure. Or, for a new portal, click the Add Portal button.
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Select the Enforce client source uniqueness check box.
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Click Accept.