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Getting Started
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Introducing Websense
V-Series Appliances
The Websense V-Series appliance is a high-performance security appliance with a
hardened operating system, optimized for analyzing Web and email traffic and
content.
The appliance offers:
A command-line interface for initial appliance settings, available through a USB
keyboard and monitor or a serial port connection, providing basic appliance
control commands
Appliance Manager, a Web-based configuration interface that provides
management features:
System dashboard, with up-to-the-minute status of the software modules and
system resources on the appliance
Appliance configuration and network settings
System administration tools for patch management, troubleshooting, and
backup and restore
Customization of subscribed features, such as proxy caching, Web filtering, and
email filtering, available through Web-based configuration interfaces
Event logging for appliance configuration and patching. Log entries can be
viewed in Appliance Manager, and log files can be downloaded for later viewing.
Web filtering and integrated proxy caching (if subscribed) after minimal initial
configuration (Web mode)
Configurable links to hybrid Web filtering and off-appliance Data Security
features (if subscribed, Web mode)
Robust antivirus and antispam scanning and filtering of email (Email mode)
Personal Email Manager facility allowing end users to manage quarantined
messages and individual permit/block lists (Email mode)
