Settings
Configure system settings and set up Notification, Backup & Restore, as well as Log Storage to better suit your network environment.
To enable Threat Prevention:
- Go to Settings > General and tick Enable Threat Prevention to protect your system form attacks.
- Tick the check box to set Drop high-risk packets automatically as the default action.
- Click Apply to save changes.
Note:
- Threat Prevention only uses an Intrusion prevention system (IPS). Intrusion detection system (IDS) functions are no longer available.
- Self-defined policies are given the highest priority. If you set not to drop high-risk packets in Self-Defined Policy, high-risk packets will not be dropped even if you tick the Automatically drop high-risk packets checkbox.
To determine which interfaces to monitor:
- Go to Settings > General and find the status of each interface.
- Tick/untick checkboxes to determine which interfaces to monitor.
- Click Apply to save changes.
To monitor updates:
- Go to Settings > General and view the overall status of system updates.
- You can perform the following actions:
- Click Update Now to update immediately if an update is available.
- Tick Automatically update signatures to allow auto updates, and set the Schedule by choosing the date and time form the drop-down menus.
- Select an Update Source (ET open or ET pro) form the drop-down menu.
- Click Apply to save changes.
To enable device protection:
- Go to Settings > Device to check device status.
- Click the search icon on the right-hand corner, and enter device name or MAC address to search for devices.
- Tick/untick Skip filtering packets for new devices to determine whether to protect your devices by Threat Prevention. If you tick this checkbox, newly added devices to local network will not be protected by Threat Prevention. Please note that devices once protected by Threat Prevention will be displayed in the list below.
- Click Apply to save changes.
Note:
- When the router is in Wireless AP mode, devices that are not connected to the router may also appear on the list.
To enable event notification:
- Go to Settings > Notification and tick Enable event notification.
- Select the notification medium (E-mail, SMS, Push Service) and set the minimum time interval.
- Click Advanced to further determine how to receive notifications of each event, and click OK.
- Click Apply to save changes.
To back up or restore settings:
- Go to Settings > Backup & Restore.
- Click Backup to save the current settings to your computer.
- Click Restore and select a (.dss) file to restore settings.
- Click Apply to save changes.
To limit log storage:
- Go to Settings > Log Storage.
- Set the Maximum log usage (500MB, 1GB, 2G). Once the storage threshold is exceeded, the system will automatically rotate older log files.
- To erase all existing logs, click Clear Logs.
- Click Apply to save changes.