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. Installation of DynFi Manager On-Premise
  • 1.2. Installation of DynFi Manager using Docker
  • 1.3. Manual installation of DynFi Manager On-Premise
  • 1.4. Running DynFi Manager
  • 1.5. DynFi Manager SaaS
• 2. Installing DFM on Ubuntu
  • 2.1. Prerequisites
  • 2.2. Installing DynFi Manager using APT repository
  • 2.3. Upgrading DynFi Manager
• 3. Running DFM on any OS
  • 3.1. Installing Java
  • 3.2. Installing MongoDB
  • 3.3. Running DynFi Manager on Windows
  • 3.4. Running DynFi Manager on FreeBSD
  • 3.5. Upgrading DynFi Manager
• 4. DFM Configuration
  • 4.1. What is DynFi® Manager’s configuration?
  • 4.2. Sources of configuration
  • 4.3. Format of the configuration file
  • 4.4. Examining effective configuration
  • 4.5. Creating initial configuration file
  • 4.6. Mostly used configuration options
  • 4.7. Tuning environment options in Ubuntu
• 5. First steps with DFM
  • 5.1. Accessing your DynFi Manager installation using its IP address
  • 5.2. Accessing your device using a domain name
• 6. Configuring your remote firewalls for DFM
  • 6.1. Getting access to your firewalls using SSH
  • 6.2. Adding a remote firewall to DynFi Manager
  • 6.3. Enhancing the security of your SSH access
  • 6.4. Using SSH key based authentication
  • 6.5. Firewall clusters
• 7. DFM Connection Agent
  • 7.1. What is the DynFi Connection Agent
  • 7.2. Steps needed to start using the Agent
  • 7.3. How Tokens work
  • 7.4. How connections work
  • 7.5. Updating Connection Agent
• 8. Backup connection addresses
  • 8.1. Main connection address
  • 8.2. Backup connection addresses
  • 8.3. Switching to another address in case of failure
  • 8.4. Manually switching to another address
  • 8.5. Automatic fallback to main connection address
  • 8.6. Uniqueness of the connection addresses
• 9. Managing DFM Licenses
  • 9.1. Buying a DynFi Manager License
  • 9.2. Importing licenses
  • 9.3. License renewals
  • 9.4. License expiration
  • 9.5. Importing license in CLI
• 10. Storing secrets in DFM database
  • 10.1. What is “a secret”?
  • 10.2. Default storage format
  • 10.3. How to turn on encryption of secrets in the database?
  • 10.4. How to change encryption password?
  • 10.5. Performance check
  • 10.6. I have lost my encryption password
  • 10.7. How are user passwords stored?
• 11. DFM Logs
  • 11.1. Default configuration
  • 11.2. Tuning logs
  • 11.3. Tuning logs in Ubuntu
• 12. Direct View
  • 12.1. Opening Direct View
  • 12.2. Automatic Login
  • 12.3. Device Setup
  • 12.4. Permissions of Direct View
  • 12.5. Settings of Direct View
  • 12.6. Connectivity issues
  • 12.7. Configuration options
• 13. Firewall rules
  • 13.1. Limiting access to the rules
• 14. Managing aliases with DFM
  • 14.1. Editing aliases of a single device
  • 14.2. Editing aliases of many devices
  • 14.3. Alias Library and Alias Collections
  • 14.4. Alias synchronization
  • 14.5. Synchronization options
  • 14.6. Solving conflicts and initial actions list
• 15. Firewall configuration
  • 15.1. Comparing configs
  • 15.2. Restoring configs
  • 15.3. Restoring configs - expert mode
  • 15.4. Removing old configs from DynFi Manager
• 16. Rebooting devices
  • 16.1. Rebooting a single device
  • 16.2. Rebooting a group of devices
• 17. Managing users in DFM
  • 17.1. Admin role
  • 17.2. Custom role(s)
  • 17.3. Assigning users to roles
  • 17.4. Device Groups vs. User Roles
  • 17.5. Managing user roles
  • 17.6. Resetting user accounts
• 18. Two-Factor Authentication
  • 18.1. What is Two-Factor Authentication?
  • 18.2. Setting up 2FA TOTP
  • 18.3. Forcing Two-Factor Authentication for other users
  • 18.4. Two-Factor Authentication permissions
  • 18.5. Disabling Two-Factor Authentication using CLI
• 19. Device groups
  • 19.1. Default group
  • 19.2. Custom device group(s)
  • 19.3. Assigning users to device groups
  • 19.4. Device groups vs. user roles
  • 19.5. Managing device groups
  • 19.6. Resetting user’s device groups in CLI