Administrator Tips - NETGEAR UTM25-100NAS - Prosecure Utm Appliance 25U No Sub Included Reference Manual

ProSecure Unified Threat Management UTM10 or UTM25 Reference Manual

Administrator Tips

Consider the following operational items:
1. As an option, you can enable remote management if you have to manage distant sites from a
central location (see
page 9-1 and "Configuring Remote Management Access" on page
2. Although rules (see
the basic way of managing the traffic through your system, you can further refine your control
using the following features and capabilities of the UTM:
– Groups and hosts (see
– Services (see
– Schedules (see
– Allow or block sites and applications (see
page 6-41)
– Source MAC filtering (see
– Port triggering (see
3. Content filtering is a firewall component. The UTM provides such extensive content filtering
options that an entire chapter is dedicated to this subject; see
Optimizing Scans."
4. Some firewall settings might affect the performance of the UTM. For more information, see
"Performance Management" on page
5. You can monitor blocked content and malware threats in real-time. For more information, see
"Monitoring Real-Time Traffic, Security, and Statistics" on page
6. The firewall logs can be configured to log and then e-mail denial of access, general attack
information, and other information to a specified e-mail address. For information about how to
configure logging and notifications, see
Notifications" on page
5-2
"Configuring VPN Authentication Domains, Groups, and Users" on
"Using Rules to Block or Allow Specific Kinds of Traffic" on page
"Managing Groups and Hosts (LAN Groups)" on page
"Services-Based Rules" on page
"Setting a Schedule to Block or Allow Specific Traffic" on page
"Enabling Source MAC Filtering" on page
"Configuring Port Triggering" on page
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"Setting Web Access Exception Rules" on
Chapter 6, "Content Filtering and
"Configuring Logging, Alerts, and Event
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Firewall Protection
5-3) is