DynFi® Manager Documentation

Welcome to DynFi Manager’s documentation.

In the index below, DFM denotes DynFi® Manager.

Table of Contents

• 1. Getting Started with DFM
  • 1.1. Installing DynFi Manager On-Premise
  • 1.2. Using the DynFi Manager SaaS Platform
  • 1.3. Running DynFi Manager
• 2. Installing DFM using our script
  • 2.1. Introduction
  • 2.2. DynFi Manager installation procedure via our script
  • 2.3. What to do if it does not work?
• 3. Installing DFM on Ubuntu
  • 3.1. Introduction
  • 3.2. Prerequisites
  • 3.3. Installing DynFi Manager using APT repository
  • 3.4. Upgrading DynFi Manager
• 4. Installing DFM using Docker
  • 4.1. Introduction
  • 4.2. Quick Start
• 5. Running DFM on any OS
  • 5.1. Installing Java
  • 5.2. Installing MongoDB
  • 5.3. Running DynFi Manager on Windows
  • 5.4. Running DynFi Manager on FreeBSD
  • 5.5. Upgrading DynFi Manager
• 6. DFM Configuration
  • 6.1. What is DynFi® Manager’s configuration?
  • 6.2. Sources of configuration
  • 6.3. Format of the configuration file
  • 6.4. Examining effective configuration
  • 6.5. Creating initial configuration file
  • 6.6. Mostly used configuration options
  • 6.7. Tuning environment options in Ubuntu
• 7. First steps with DFM
  • 7.1. Accessing your DynFi Manager installation using its IP address
  • 7.2. Accessing your device using a domain name
• 8. Configuring your remote firewalls for DFM
  • 8.1. Getting access to your firewalls using SSH
  • 8.2. Adding a remote firewall to DynFi Manager
  • 8.3. Enhancing the security of your SSH access
  • 8.4. Using SSH key based authentication
  • 8.5. Firewall clusters
• 9. DFM Connection Agent
  • 9.1. What is the DynFi Connection Agent
  • 9.2. Steps needed to start using the Agent
  • 9.3. How Tokens work
  • 9.4. How connections work
  • 9.5. Updating Connection Agent
• 10. Backup connection addresses
  • 10.1. Main connection address
  • 10.2. Backup connection addresses
  • 10.3. Switching to another address in case of failure
  • 10.4. Manually switching to another address
  • 10.5. Automatic fallback to main connection address
  • 10.6. Uniqueness of the connection addresses
• 11. Managing DFM Licenses
  • 11.1. Buying a DynFi Manager License
  • 11.2. Importing licenses
  • 11.3. License renewals
  • 11.4. License expiration
  • 11.5. Importing license in CLI
• 12. Storing secrets in DFM database
  • 12.1. What is “a secret”?
  • 12.2. Default storage format
  • 12.3. How to turn on encryption of secrets in the database?
  • 12.4. How to change encryption password?
  • 12.5. Performance check
  • 12.6. I have lost my encryption password
  • 12.7. How are user passwords stored?
• 13. DFM Logs
  • 13.1. Default configuration
  • 13.2. Tuning logs
  • 13.3. Tuning logs in Ubuntu
• 14. Direct View
  • 14.1. Opening Direct View
  • 14.2. Automatic Login
  • 14.3. Device Setup
  • 14.4. Permissions of Direct View
  • 14.5. Settings of Direct View
  • 14.6. Connectivity issues
  • 14.7. Configuration options
• 15. Firewall rules
  • 15.1. Limiting access to the rules
• 16. Managing aliases with DFM
  • 16.1. Editing aliases of a single device
  • 16.2. Editing aliases of many devices
  • 16.3. Alias Library and Alias Collections
  • 16.4. Alias synchronization
  • 16.5. Synchronization options
  • 16.6. Solving conflicts and initial actions list
• 17. Firewall configuration
  • 17.1. Comparing configs
  • 17.2. Restoring configs
  • 17.3. Restoring configs - expert mode
  • 17.4. Removing old configs from DynFi Manager
• 18. Rebooting devices
  • 18.1. Rebooting a single device
  • 18.2. Rebooting a group of devices
• 19. Managing users in DFM
  • 19.1. Admin role
  • 19.2. Custom role(s)
  • 19.3. Assigning users to roles
  • 19.4. Device Groups vs. User Roles
  • 19.5. Managing user roles
  • 19.6. Resetting user accounts
• 20. Two-Factor Authentication
  • 20.1. What is Two-Factor Authentication?
  • 20.2. Setting up 2FA TOTP
  • 20.3. Forcing Two-Factor Authentication for other users
  • 20.4. Two-Factor Authentication permissions
  • 20.5. Disabling Two-Factor Authentication using CLI
• 21. LDAP Authentication
  • 21.1. LDAP groups and DFM roles
  • 21.2. Configuration
  • 21.3. Uniqueness of username and e-mail
  • 21.4. DFM account vs LDAP account
  • 21.5. Modifying user properties
  • 21.6. Examples of complete configuration
• 22. Device groups
  • 22.1. Default group
  • 22.2. Custom device group(s)
  • 22.3. Assigning users to device groups
  • 22.4. Device groups vs. user roles
  • 22.5. Managing device groups
  • 22.6. Resetting user’s device groups in CLI