Table Of Contents

Preface

Audience

Organization

Conventions

Obtaining Documentation, Obtaining Support, and Security Guidelines

Preface

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The Cisco Guard Web-Based Manager Configuration Guide describes the Web-based Manager (WBM), a graphical user interface (GUI) for remotely operating the Guard and monitoring the Guard activity, status, and statistics. The WBM communicates with the Guard by translating its HTML pages into Guard commands. These are the same commands that you can enter using the command-line interface (CLI). This guide describes the WBM workflow and operation.

Some features of the Guard, mostly related to the initial installation and configuration of the Guard, can only be configured using the CLI and cannot be configured using the WBM. Refer to the Cisco Guard Configuration Guide for details on using the CLI.

This preface contains the following major sections:

•Audience

•Organization

•Conventions

•Obtaining Documentation, Obtaining Support, and Security Guidelines

Audience

This guide is intended for the following trained and qualified personnel who are responsible for operating the WBM:

· System administrator

· System operator

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 Guard and the WBM.
Chapter 2, "Enabling and Launching the WBM"	Provides an overview of the basic WBM procedures and explains on how to set up and connect to the Guard WBM.
Chapter 3, "Managing User Access"	Describes how to use the WBM to create, modify, and delete the user profiles that control access to the Guard WBM.
Chapter 4, "Creating and Configuring Zones"	Describes how to create and manage the Guard zones.
Chapter 5, "Configuring Zone Filters"	Describes how to perform advanced zone filter configuration tasks on the Guard.
Chapter 6, "Configuring Policy Templates"	Describes how to perform advanced policy template configuration tasks on the Guard.
Chapter 7, "Learning Zone Traffic"	Describes how to use the Guard learning process to analyze zone traffic and create zone-specific policies.
Chapter 8, "Managing Zone Policies"	Describes how to modify the policies of a zone configuration.
Chapter 9, "Activating Zone Protection"	Describes how to perform tasks associated with protecting Guard zones.
Chapter 10, "Monitoring Guard and Zone Operations"	Describes how to perform tasks used for monitoring Guard zones and displaying zone statistics and diagnostic information.
Chapter 11, "Managing the Packet-Dump Feature"	Describes how to initiate the packet-dump feature and view the packet-dump contents.

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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Tips use the following conventions:

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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