Using the panel
The panel is a single web application. A menu on the side (a button at the top on a phone) lists its pages, and what you see depends on your role. This section describes each page, field by field. Start here for the parts every page shares.
The menu
| Page | What it is for | Who sees it |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | Online users, traffic, plans that run out, the state of the server. | Everyone |
| Clients | Create and manage the people who connect. | Everyone |
| Connections | Open tunnels now, and finished connections. | Everyone |
| Inbounds | The protocols and ports your servers offer. | Roles that can view inbounds |
| Nodes | The servers that run the inbounds. | Roles that can view nodes |
| Groups | Bundles of inbounds you give to clients. | Roles that manage groups or view them all |
| Panel accounts | People who sign in to the panel, and their roles. | Owners |
| Settings | Addresses, history, look, HTTPS, backups. | Everyone, with different tabs |
| License | Your plan, its limits, buying and renewing. | Everyone |
| Updates | The installed version and new releases. | Owners and roles that see all clients |
Owners see everything. Admin accounts see the clients and infrastructure pages their role allows. Reseller accounts see only their own clients. Panel accounts and Roles and resellers explain how to set this up.
Language and theme
At the bottom of the menu, the language button switches between English and فارسی. Persian switches the whole panel to right-to-left. The theme button cycles System, Dark and Light. Both choices are remembered in the browser.
The accent colour of the panel is a separate setting for everyone who signs in: Settings → General → Panel colour, with eight colours. Client pages have their own colour, see The subscription page.
How lists and dialogs behave
- The clients list has tabs on top (All, Online, Running out, Used up, Expired, Disabled), a search box and a sort, and it is paged. Other lists have filters suited to them.
- Tick rows on the clients and groups lists to get a bar of bulk actions.
- The ⋯ button on a row, or More on a page, opens that item's actions. Destructive actions ask for confirmation, and say what will stop working.
- Forms report a problem next to the field that caused it. The last error of a form shows above the Save button.
- Settings that need a restart say so when you save them. A restart of the panel does not disconnect VPN users.
When the panel is read-only
A red banner at the top tells you why changes are off:
- Your license has expired, so changes are paused until it is renewed. Renew on the License page. Tunnels keep running.
- For a reseller, the banner says the account is switched off, expired or out of traffic. Contact the owner.
Related pages
- Get started: installing and connecting your first client.
- How Ovira works: the parts behind these pages.
- Glossary: terms such as inbound, node and subscription link.