How This Guide Is Organized

The SunScreen 3.1 Administration Guide contains the following chapters and appendixes:

• Chapter 1, Starting the Administration GUI and Logging In covers the basic concepts as well as the procedures for starting and configuring the Java-based browser, and logging in to the administration graphical user interface (GUI). It also covers how you define the access levels for administrative users.

• Chapter 2, Getting Status and Managing Logs describes the Information page in the administration GUI, viewing statistics and logs, and setting the retrieval mode.

• Chapter 3, Working with Common Objects contains the procedures for using the administration GUI to add, delete, and rename the Common Objects.

• Chapter 4, Creating and Managing Rules describes packet filtering, administrative access rules, Network Address Translation (NAT), and Virtual Private Networks (VPN).

• Chapter 5, Creating and Managing Policies tells you how to how to create a policy file that describes how you want your SunScreen firewall to function. This chapter also contains many policy management procedures.

• Chapter 6, Using High Availability describes setting up and managing a Highly Available (HA) SunScreen configuration.

• Chapter 7, Setting Up and Using Proxies tells you how to use proxies to provide content filtering and user authentication.

• Chapter 8, Configuring Centralized Management Groups descrtibes how you set up multple SunScreen to be managed from one location.

• Chapter 9, Adding Remote Administration Stations After Installation describes how you can add aditionalremote administration stations to your network.

• Appendix A, Using the Command Line contains procedures for using the UNIX command line to manage a SunScreen firewall.

• Appendix B, Quick Start Procedures contains detailed information about:

  • Telnet proxy service with and without proxy user authentication

  • FTP proxy service with and without proxy user authentication

  • HTTP proxy service

  • SMTP proxy service

  • Configuring RADIUS Authentication

  • Telnet and FTP proxy service with RADIUS user authentication

  • SecurID clients supported by SunScreen

  • Telnet and FTP proxy service with SecurID user authentication

  • Port-by-port using mixed mode with proxies