NEXCOM IFA 1610 User Manual

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IFA 3610/IFA 2610/IFA 1610 User Manual

Introduction: Getting Started

blocks the packets and discards it.

blocks the packets, but a notification is sent to the source.

partial accept the rules. This is only found on the heading of a list of policies, to give at a glance the idea

that some of the policies in the list are accepted and some are rejected, like e.g., in Menubar

► Proxy ► HTTP

► Contentfilter.

Other Icons
Additional icons that can be found on the appliance.

expands a panel, revealing its content.

closes a panel, hiding its content.

Navigation bar
In most places where a long list of item appears, a navigation bar appears to ease the listing of the items, which is
composed of several cells: First

│◄ and Previous ◄ on the left, Next ► and Last ►│on the right, which enclose the page

number. Clicking on these buttons will lead to either the first or last page, or to the previous or next page.

Common Actions and Tasks
There are two types of actions that can be performed within the GUI: Actions on a single item in a list of configuration
settings (i.e., one firewall rule), and ‘global’ actions to save, store, and apply all the settings in a list, a box, or a page.

Actions and icons
These icons are placed in the Actions column on the right of the various tables that appear on the pages and usually
show a list of the items defined, like e.g., the firewall rules or the OpenVPN users. The actions’ icons allow to execute
one task on the element of the list to which they correspond. Some action is only available on some type of lists:

and indicate the status of an item, enabled and disabled respectively. You can change the status by clicking on the
icon. After that, a callout may notify you to restart service, if this is needed, to let the daemons reload the configuration
and activate the changes.

and are available only in lists where the order is important, e.g., firewall rules, and allow to modify the order by
moving up or down the corresponding item.

allows to modify the current item. Clicking on this icon will open the appropriate editor for that item.

causes the selected item to be removed from the list and from the configuration. A message will appear, asking
for confirmation before the item is definitely deleted.

allows to download the item (usually an archive).

is used in limited locations, e.g., in Menubar

► Services ► Spam Training to test the connection of an item to a

remote servers.

appears in the IPS (Menubar

► Services ► Intrusion Prevention) and allows to log the packets that are allowed to

pass or are blocked after they have matched a rule.

‘Global’ Actions
At the bottom of every page that allows the customisation of one or more options, there is the option to Save and store
the new configuration on disk or to cancel the customisation done so far. In the latter case, no further action is required,
since the configuration did actually not change. In the former case, however, it proves necessary to restart the service
just modified, and perhaps also a few other related or dependant services, for the new settings to be reloaded and used
in the running configuration. For the sake of convenience, when this action is required, a callout is displayed after the
settings have been saved, with an Apply button, to be clicked to restart the service.

Whenever a Multiselect box is used (e.g., in Menubar

► Hotspot Settings), Add all and Remove all can be clicked as

shortcut to add or remove all the available entries from the list of the available items or the selected and active items,
respectively.

This manual is related to the following products:

IFA 2610 IFA 3610