Configuring Kerio Control System Settings

Overview

The Kerio Control administration console allows configuring a few basic parameters of the operating system's firewall.

Many Kerio Control features (user authentication, logs, statistics, etc.) require the correct setting of date, time and time zone on the firewall. Kerio Control allows manual settings or synchronization with an NTP (Network Time Protocol) server (recommended).

This article explains the steps for configuring the date, time and server name settings within the console.

Step-By-Step Guide:

1. In the administration interface, go to Advanced Options > System Configuration.
2. Change the system settings
   1. Time and Date Setting.
      1. Select option Keep synchronized with NTP server. 
      2. Date and time can be set manually, but it is better to use an NTP server which provides information about the current time and allows automatic management of the firewall's system time.
      3. Kerio Technologies offers the following free NTP servers for this purpose:
         • 0.kerio.pool.ntp.org
         • 1.kerio.pool.ntp.org
         • 2.kerio.pool.ntp.org
         • 3.kerio.pool.ntp.org
   2. Timezone Settings
      1. Select a time zone from the Server time zone list.
3. Click Apply.

Confirmation

The current date and time will be changed to the new selected time zone.

Configuring the server name

The default Kerio Control hostname is control. In order to change the hostname, connect to a directory service or change the web interface URL in the Advanced Options > Web Interface tab.