Applying a new skin (if available)

You can change or customize the appearance of your appliance with skins of your choice.

A skin is a collection of images that enable you to alter the visual style and presentation of a user interface. Skin customizations allow you to extend your corporate look and feel to affiliated web sites and thus convey brand association and unity.

- Note: Sites will assume the visual style of the appliance on which it is hosted.

To apply a new skin:

1. In the shortcuts section of the Home page
   , click Network Settings (Configuration section).

2. In the Configuration submenu, click Manage Skins. The Manage Skins form opens.

3. In the Skins area, select the option button next to the skin you want to apply.

4. Click Preview to preview the control panel with the selected skin.

5. Note: When you preview, the control panel opens in a new web browser.

5. Click Apply to apply the skin to the appliance. This process will take a few seconds.

Once successful, a message prompting you to restart the appliance appears in the Status panel (above the Manage Skins area).

If the process fails, or succeeds with attendant warnings, click the Details link to view related information.

6. In the Configuration submenu, click Restart/Reboot.

7. Important: You must restart the appliance to enable the appliance to assume the new skin.

7. Click Restart Appliance in the Restart Appliance section.

- Note: Restarting the appliance only restarts the Appliance Administrator control panel. The control panel will be inaccessible for the length of time required to restart the appliance (typically a few seconds). All the sites and services hosted on the server will continue to be accessible.

- Important: Do not click the Reboot option. Rebooting the server will shut down your server (all the appliances, hosted sites, and services). The server will be inaccessible for the length of time required to start the server again.

A dialog box appears, requesting confirmation, before restarting the appliance.

8. Click OK to confirm.

You will be logged out of the appliance and requested to wait a few minutes before reconnecting to the appliance.

- Note: When you log in for the first time after applying the new skin, you may find that your appliance displays a garbled mix of the new and the old skin. This is because your appliance uses information cached by your browser.
  To resolve this, before you reconnect to your appliance, you MUST remove cached files and clear your cookies.
  Please refer to the documentation of the browser you use for help on clearing your cookies and cached files.

9. Reload the browser, and enter the name of your appliance in the browser's address pane.

http://<appliance_name>/admin

Where <appliance_name> is the name of your appliance control panel.

10. Log in with your user name and password.

Your appliance assumes the new skin.