Working in the TRITON console

Web Security Help | Web Security Solutions | Version 7.8.x

The TRITON Unified Security Center is the central configuration interface used to manage Websense Web Security, Email Security, and Data Security solutions. It includes a Web Security module (the Web Security manager) used to customize Internet activity policies, monitor Internet usage, generate Internet usage reports, and manage configuration and settings for Websense Web Security.


	Important Do not use Internet Explorer Compatibility View with the TRITON console. If you experience odd behavior or page layouts in Internet Explorer, make sure that Compatibility View button (between the URL and the Refresh button in the browser address bar) is not selected.

At installation, the TRITON Unified Security Center is set up to give full access to all modules to a single administrator account: admin. The password for this account is set during installation.

Until a subscription key has been entered, when the admin user (or any other Super Administrators that you create) logs on and connects to the Web Security manager, an Initial Setup Checklist is displayed. Use the checklist to enter your subscription key and perform basic initial configuration tasks.

Once a key has been entered and validated, administrators logging on to the Web Security manager are taken to the Status > Dashboard page.

A quick tutorial is available for administrators using the Web Security manager, or this version, for the first time. Just click Help, then Getting Started, and select one of the following:

New Admin Tutorial

Upgrading Admin Tutorial

On first logon, when an administrator navigates away from the dashboard, the Save and Deploy button activates. This allows initial default dashboard settings to be saved for that administrator account. (Once the initial defaults are saved, navigating away from the dashboard activates the Save and Deploy button only when charts are added, removed, or edited.)

If you are using an account with permissions to access multiple TRITON modules, use the TRITON toolbar to switch between modules. See Navigating the Web Security manager.

If you are using delegated administration, and have created administrative roles, you may be prompted to select a role to manage. See Delegated Administration and Reporting.

When you log on to the TRITON console, the Web Security module connects to the default (base) Policy Server specified during installation. To manage another Policy Server, select its IP address from the Policy Server drop-down list in the Web Security toolbar.

A TRITON console session ends 30 minutes after the last action taken in the user interface (clicking from page to page, entering information, caching changes, or saving changes). A warning message is displayed 5 minutes before the session ends.

If there are uncached changes on the page or cached changes pending, the changes are lost when the session ends. Remember to click OK to cache changes, and Save and Deploy to record and implement those changes.

If the TRITON console is open in multiple tabs of the same browser window, all instances share the same session. If the session times out in one tab, it times out in all tabs.

If the TRITON console is open in multiple browser windows on the same computer, the instances share the same session unless you:

Launch multiple Internet Explorer windows independently of one another.

Use the File > New Session command to open a new Internet Explorer window.

Use Internet Explorer to open one connection to the TRITON console, and then use Firefox or Chrome to open another connection.

If you close the browser without logging off of the TRITON Unified Security Center, or if the remote machine from which you are accessing a TRITON module shuts down unexpectedly, you may be temporarily locked out of the TRITON console. The management components typically detect this issue within about 2 minutes and end the interrupted session, allowing you to log on again.