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title: "System"
description: "Web interface, users, certificates, backups and high availability."
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> Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.ixolate.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# System

Web interface, users, certificates, backups and high availability.

- [Serial console access](/system/serial-console) — The following device families offer a mini-usb connection which can be used for serial communication:
- [Local users (how-to)](/system/local-users) — With the local user manager in Ixolate one can add users and groups and define the privileges for granting access to certain parts of the GUI (Web…
- [Two-factor setup (how-to)](/system/two-factor-setup) — This how-to will show you how to setup a One-time Password 2 Factor Authentication using Ixolate and Google's Authenticator. All services of Ixolate…
- [Setup Self-Signed Certificate Chains](/system/self-signed-certificates) — This how-to describes the process of creating self-signed certificate chains with Ixolate as PKI (Public Key Infrastructure).
- [High availability setup (how-to)](/system/high-availability-setup) — One of the more powerful features of Ixolate is to set-up a redundant firewall with automatic fail-over option. This chapter describes step by step…
- [Web interface](/system/web-interface) — This article explains the basics of the Ixolate Graphical User Interface or GUI for short.
- [Dashboard](/system/dashboard) — The Dashboard is the first page you will see after you log into Ixolate. Additionally, it can be accessed via Lobby › Dashboard. The Dashboard…
- [System settings](/system/settings-menu) — Besides the configuration options that every component has, Ixolate also contains a lot of general settings that you can tweak. This page contains an…
- [Access / User Management](/system/users-and-groups) — The user manager of Ixolate allows for controlling access to the different part (pages) of the configurator as well as controlling access to…
- [Two-factor authentication](/system/two-factor-authentication) — Two-factor authentication also known as 2FA or 2-Step Verification is an authentication method that requires two components, such as a pin/password +…
- [Certificates](/system/certificates) — In Ixolate, certificates are used for ensuring trust between peers. To make using them easier, Ixolate allows creating certificates from the front-…
- [Backups](/system/backups) — The configuration section contains some tools to keep track of your setup.
- [High availability](/system/high-availability) — Ixolate utilizes the Common Address Redundancy Protocol or CARP for hardware failover. Two or more firewalls can be configured as a failover group.…
- [Monitoring (Monit)](/system/monitoring-monit) — Ixolate uses Monit for monitoring services. Monit has quite extensive monitoring capabilities, which is why the configuration options are extensive…

Source: https://docs.ixolate.com/system/index.mdx