Configuration Basics; Granular Configuration; Chapter 5 Configuration Basics - ZyXEL Communications ZyWALL 1050 User Manual

This section provides a lot of information to help you configure the ZyWALL effectively.
Some of it is helpful when you are just getting started. Some of it is provided for your
reference when you try configuring various features in the ZyWALL.
• Section 5.1 on page 105
ZyWALL.
• Section 5.2 on page 106
between the ZyWALL and other routers, particularly ZyNOS routers.
• Section 5.3 on page 107
zones in the ZyWALL.
• Section 5.4 on page 108
configure the main screens for each feature. For example, if you want to configure a trunk
for load-balancing, you should configure the member interfaces before you configure the
trunk. After you configure the trunk, you should configure a policy route for it as well.
(You might also have to configure criteria for the policy route.)
• Section 5.5 on page 116
mentioned above) that are primarily used to store information used by other features.
• Section 5.6 on page 117

5.1 Granular Configuration

ZyWALL configuration is granular. When you configure a feature, you may have to configure
other screens first before you can finish configuring the feature. When you configure these
other screens, you are configuring objects.
For example, when you set up a policy route, each criterion is an object. You should configure
each criterion in a different screen before you configure the policy route itself. A policy route
can have up to six criteria, so you might have to configure several screens before you finish the
policy route.
Fortunately, when you finish, you can reuse the objects--without configuring them again--in
other policy routes or in other features such as firewall rules or remote management.
For a list of common objects, see

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Configuration Basics

introduces (very briefly) how granular the configuration is in the
introduces some differences in terminology and organization
explains the differences between physical ports, interfaces, and
identifies the features you should configure before and after you
identifies the features (such as the criteria in a policy route,
introduces some of the tools available for system management.
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