Table Of Contents

Preface

Audience

Organization

Conventions

Obtaining Documentation, Obtaining Support, and Security Guidelines

Preface

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The Cisco Guard Web-Based Management User Guide describes the web-based management, a graphical user interface (GUI) for remotely operating the Guard and monitoring the Guard's activity, condition and statistics. WBM communicates with the Guard by translating its HTML pages into Guard commands. These are the same commands that you can enter with the command-line interface (CLI). This guide describes the Cisco Guard Web-Based Management (WMB) workflow, installation, and operation.

This user guide includes the general WBM operations needed for the Guard operation and explains how to use WBM. It contains background information and instructions for using WBM and the Guard.

Some features of the Guard's configuration, relating to the Guard as a whole, can only be configured using CLI and cannot be configured using WBM. Refer to the Cisco Guard User Guide for further details.

This preface contains the following major sections:

•Audience

•Organization

•Conventions

•Obtaining Documentation, Obtaining Support, and Security Guidelines

Audience

The Cisco Guard Web-Based Management User Guide is intended primarily for network operators who will be operating the Cisco Guard, but who are not necessarily familiar with the tasks involved and the relationship between them, or the operations necessary to perform particular tasks.

Organization

This user guide is divided into the following chapters:

Chapter	Description
Chapter 1, "Introduction"	Provides information on system requirements and an overview of the Cisco Guard Web-Based Management (WMB).
Chapter 2, "Launching WBM"	Provides an overview of the basic WBM procedures and explains on how to set up the WBM in the Cisco Guard and how to connect to the Guard's WBM.
Chapter 3, "Operating and Monitoring Events on the Guard"	Describes how to perform common monitoring and operational tasks on the Cisco Guard using the WBM.
Chapter 4, "Creating and Configuring Zones"	Describes how to create and manage zones.
Chapter 5, "Configuring Zone Filters and Policy Templates"	Describes how to perform advanced configuration tasks for zones on the Cisco Guard using WBM: Zone Filter configuration and Policy Template configuration.
Chapter 6, "Learning Zone Traffic and Constructing Policies"	Describes how to create traffic-tailored policies for zones on the Cisco Guard using WBM.
Chapter 7, "Protecting Zones"	Describes how to perform tasks for protecting zones on the Cisco Guard using WBM.
Chapter 8, "Zone Statistics and Diagnostics"	Describes how to perform tasks used for monitoring zones and displaying zone statistics and diagnostics on the Cisco Guard using WBM.

Conventions

This manual uses the following conventions:

Convention	Description
boldface font	Indicates commands and keywords.
Italic font	Indicates arguments and refers the reader to places in the document for further details.
Screen font	Information to be displayed or typed on the screen.
Braces ({ })	Indicates command parameters from which you must choose one.
Square brackets ([ ])	Indicates an optional command parameter.
admin@GUARD#	Indicates the default CLI prompt.

Notes use the following conventions:

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Note Means reader take note. Notes contain helpful suggestions or references to material not covered in the user guide.

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Cautions use the following conventions:

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Caution Means reader be careful. In this situation, you might do something that could result in equipment damage or loss of data.

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Tip Means the following information will help you solve a problem. The tips information might not be troubleshooting or even an action, but could be useful information.

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Obtaining Documentation, Obtaining Support, and Security Guidelines

For information on obtaining documentation, obtaining support, providing documentation feedback, security guidelines, and also recommended aliases and general Cisco documents, see the monthly What's New in Cisco Product Documentation, which also lists all new and revised Cisco technical documentation, at:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/general/whatsnew/whatsnew.html