3 Administration Scope

3.1 Management Scope

In the Triofox, objects that can be managed are defined in the following picture. You can manage objects at different levels from one single management portal.

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3.2 My Triofox Portal Dashboard

The My Triofox Portal dashboard is where you can request a personalized demo from a Triofox specialist, order a consulting services package to help you with your Triofox deployment or assesment, download the software, register the Triofox cluster, purchase or add licenses. You can also look at the feature matrix in your My Triofox dashboard.

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The partner portal is located at https://www.triofox.com, and you can login through here: https://www.triofox.com/management/partnerwebapppage.aspx.

Tip

Commonly, you will download the Triofox software, set it up and leverage the built-in 30 day trial time to finish the setup. Towards the end of the trial, you assign licenses from the partner portal to your Server and activate it into a production environment.

3.3 Self-Hosted Triofox

In the User Interface, the Self-Hosted Triofox instance is referred to as a Cluster or a Server Farm. A Cluster can be as small as a single Server or scaled out to include multiple Servers in a Server farm.

Triofox Admin

In a Triofox management interface, the Triofox Administrator sees the full view of all the objects that can be managed as well as the Triofox server(s), file servers, and options to add local file servers and cloud file servers.

Users, Devices, File Server Shares, Cloud File Server,

In management console, the objects you manage include Users and Devices as well as File Server Network Shares for Folder collaboration for your teams.

This document is focused on the management scope for a Self-Hosted Triofox.

3.4 Cluster Administrator

The Cluster Administrator can manage cluster-wide functionalities, such as email SMTP server setup and worker node properties etc.

In the Deployment Guide, the Cluster Administrator is often referred to as the Master Admin, Root Admin or just Server Administrator. Even though the Cluster Server Farm can have multiple Servers, most of the time, a server-farm with one single server is sufficient for your use case and your user base.

Hint

A cluster is usually mapped to your organization(s).

If you are logged in as the Default Cluster Admin, you will manage the the entire organization level scope from the “Cluster Admin Dashboard”.

Note

1: All the administration work is performed via the web portal inside a web browser. Recommended browsers include Google Chrome first, followed by Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari and Opera. (Internet Explorer requires version 9 and above and includes Microsoft Edge Browser)

2: The very first user who installed the Cluster Server is also the Cluster Admin.

3: You can start the administration work at any time by pointing your web browser to the Cluster Server’s IP Address or DNS name. If you are on the Cluster Server console, you can even use http://localhost to get started.