Administrator Access

Remote Management Putkey Configuration

Putkey’s must be exchanged for both Management Server and the Firewall Gateway before remote management can take place. The steps for configuring Management Station and Firewall are as follows:

Configure key (password) used by master and remote devices to authenticate sessions.

• From the OS prompt change directory to $FWDIR\bin
• Add authorisation key to be used by master to authenticate to remote device (e.g., password = abc123, sample IP address = 205.30.32.111)

fw putkey –p abc123 205.30.32.111

Edit masters file on computer with firewall module.

• From the OS prompt change directory to $FWDIR\conf
• Add the IP of the management station to the masters file

Echo 205.30.32.111 > masters

Stop and start the Firewall causing it to re-read the local masters file. This in turn allows the Management Station to remotely install the security policy

• From the OS prompt change directory to $FWDIR\bin
• Type fwstop, press Enter; Type fwstart, press Enter
• When the FW-1 started message appears, exit the command window.

An authentication key is required for each firewall that the management console will remotely manage. This is achieved by using the fw putkey command with the following arguments:

Fw putkey –p password firewall-module-ipaddress

To remove remote management, remove the masters file from the $FWDIR/conf directory and reboot the Firewall.

Administrator Access

• You can set up as many administrator accounts as you like.
• When logging on, you must supply the user name, password and the name or IP address of the management server

Log in

The administrator can have four different levels of access rights:

1. Monitor Only - Read Only access to the log viewer and system status tool
2. Read Only - includes Monitor Only rights, plus Read Only rights to the Security Policy Editor
3. User Access - administrator can modify user information, but nothing else
4. Read/Write Access - administrator can do everything. Only one administrator at a time can log in using this mode

Administrators access mode

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