Firewall Management in the Administration Console

In the Administration Console, you can configure Firewall Management settings in the policy properties (Application settings → Essential Threat Protection Firewall Management).

Firewall Management settings

Setting

Description

Enable Firewall Management

This check box enables or disables Firewall Management.

This check box is cleared by default.

Network packet rules

This group of settings contains the Configure button. Clicking this button opens the Network packet rules window. In this window, you can configure network packet rules that are applied by the Firewall Management component when it detects the network connection attempt.

Available networks

This group of settings contains the Configure button. Clicking this button opens the Available networks window. In this window, you can configure the list of networks that the Firewall Management component will monitor.

Incoming connections

In this drop-down list, you can select the action to be performed for incoming network connections:

  • Allow network connections (default value).
  • Block network connections.

Incoming packets

In this drop-down list you can select the action to be performed for incoming packets:

  • Allow incoming packets (default value).
  • Block incoming packets.

Always add allowing rules for Network Agent ports

This check box enables or disables automatic adding allowing rules for Network Agent ports.

The check box is selected by default.

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