NEXCOM IFA 1610 - Manual (Page 4)

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Introduction: Getting Started
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Introduction: Getting Started
Getting Started
This sections presents the conventions used in the remainder of the manual, then provides introductory notions about
the concept of zones, and finally describes the GUI of the HENGE
TM products and the possible ways to access the IFA
3610/2610/1610 appliances.
About this Reference Manual
This manual has been written for the 1.0 release, with a Software 1.0 as guide, but it is intended for all types of the
HENGE
TM series. Since the functionalities and abilities may differ between the various appliances, the description of some
of the displayed data or configuration options may slightly vary for some appliances or not being present at all. This
guide is intended both as a contextual help and an user manual, as well as providing quick introductory descriptions to
some of the concepts that lay behind the various functionalities provided by the IFA 3610/IFA 2610/IFA 1610 appliances.
The remainder of this section contains some basic information about this guide and how to move your first steps within
the IFA 3610/IFA 2610/IFA 1610 appliances, introducing some important concepts and describing the most significant
parts of GUI.
Conventions Used in This Document
To improve the readability and clarity of this document, several conventions are used:
Besides for emphasis, italics is used to denote non-interactive objects or labels within the web GUI, while a bolded
word(s) indicates objects that require user interaction, i.e., clicking on a button or to open a hyperlink.
Admonitions are employed to mark items, actions, or tasks that require special attention:
Warning: Changing this value will cause the service to restart!
Note: Remember that you can modify this later.
Hint: Tips about configuration of options
This is an example box.
Boxes like this one contain example of configurations or short how-tos for the quick setup of some feature or service
described in the main document.
A relevant subject or an example
In boxes like this one (“topic”), you can find the explanation of some subject that requires a not-so-short explanation
and is relevant to the topic of the section or to the configuration of some setting. Also, quick how-tos or examples may
appear in it. At their bottom there might be present one or more hyperlinks to online resources.
A sequence like Menubar ► Firewall ► Port forwarding/DNAT ► Show system rules requires to click on each of the
items, in the sequence shown, to reach a particular page or configuration item. This example shows how to reach the
page that shows the configuration of the system rules for the firewall’s DNAT.
Alternatively, in a sequence like Menubar ► Firewall ► Port forwarding/DNAT ► [Rule list] ► Edit, the [...] means that
there is a large number of objects (in this case there is a list of firewall’s rules) from which one should be chosen to carry
out on it the action (Edit).