Contents
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Managing Policies
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Policy Overview 45
Changing a Policy Without Distributing the Change 45
Pre-defined Policies 46
Importing Pre-defined Policies and Rule Sets 46
Policy Settings 47
Rules 47
Organizing Rules for Optimum Performance Within a Policy 48
Determining the Size of a Policy 48
Creating Policies and Rules 49
Creating a New Policy 49
Creating Rules 50
Setting up TCP SYN Filtering 50
Creating a Rule Set from a Policy 52
Editing a Rule Set Using the Rule Set Manager 53
Verifying a Policy Using Test Mode 53
Distributing a Policy to the Network 55
Secured EFW Device—Allow Traffic versus Block All Traffic 56
Exporting or Importing Policies or Rule Sets 56
Exporting Policies or Rule Sets 56
Importing Policies and Rule Sets 56
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Performing Other Administration Tasks
59
Finding Information Using the Management Console 59
Administrator Manager Login 59
To Create a New Administrator 59
To Edit an Existing Administrator’s User Name or Password 60
To Delete an Administrator 60
Audit Information 60
Creating or Editing Audit Queries 61
Displaying Audit Query Results 62
Understanding Audit Query Results 63
Backing up the Database 65
Restoring the Database 66
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Pre-Defined Rule Sets
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Troubleshooting
69
Common problem solutions 69
System Connectivity 76
Policy Server-to-NIC Communication Check 76
Policy Server-to-Policy Server Communication Check 77
Management Console-to-Policy Server Communication Check 77