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Recommended Optional Next Steps
You will find plenty of additional documentation for customization of OX in our knowledge base [1]
When the main setup is completed, we recommend to start with the following articles to enhance your system and to become more attractive for your users.
Automated Frontend Tests
It is a good idea, to verify the functionality of your freshly set up and integrated system. Our QA department does that with tests, running automatically on the web frontend. We release this tests with every release and recommend you to use them to verify your environment with every update.
Read more about Automated_GUI_Tests
Monitoring / Statistics
It is recommended to implement at least a minimal monitoring/Statistics solution to get an overview of the systems health. If you have a support contract with Open-Xchange, it is very helpful, if the support can access the monitoring graphs. There are example scripts for a basic monitoring with [Munin] available.
Read more about installing and configuring Munin scripts for Open-Xchange
Upsell Plugin / Webmail Replacement
If you want to use your OX based Webmail system to upsell premium functions like full groupware functionality or like push to mobile phones, it is strongly recommended to use the in-app sales process.
Read more about Upsell
Mobile Autoconfiguration
If you have the OXtender for Business Mobility installed, it is recommended also to install the autoconfiguration plugin, to allow your users to configure their iPhones and Windows Mobile devices directly from within the OX webfrontend. All you need is to adapt the SMS interface to send autoprovisioning SMS.
Read more about WO_IST_DAS_DOKUMENTIERT
IP FailOver
For IP failover, several solutions are available for Linux. A reliable working framework is:
Branding
If you want OX to look more like your own Corporate Identity, including your logo, product name and maybe your colors, this can be easily achieved by changing the logos and stylesheets.
Read more about: Gui_Theming_Description
Read more about: Gui Branding Plugins
Backup
It is recommended to run regular backups for your OX installation. This can be done with every backup solution for Linux.
Read more about Backup your Open-Xchange installation