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Preface

Preface

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This guide describes how to use the Web-Based Manager (WBM) graphical user interface to operate the Cisco Guard (Guard) remotely and to monitor the Guard activity, status, and statistics.

This preface describes the audience, organization, and conventions of this publication, and provides information on how to obtain related documentation.

This preface contains the following sections:

•Audience

•Organization

•Symbols and Conventions

•Obtaining Documentation, Obtaining Support, and Security Guidelines

Audience

The Cisco Guard Web-Based Manager Configuration Guide is intended primarily for the following audiences:

•Network administrators

•Engineers

•Operators

•Network security professionals

This guide assumes a thorough knowledge of networking and networking security.

Organization

This user guide is divided into the following chapters:

Chapter	Description
Chapter 1, "Product Overview"	Describes the system requirements and provides an overview of the Guard and the WBM.
Chapter 2, "Launching and Customizing the WBM"	Provides an overview of the basic WBM procedures and describes 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 zones.
Chapter 5, "Configuring Zone Filters"	Describes how to configure the zone filters.
Chapter 6, "Configuring Policy Templates"	Describes the policy templates and how to configure them.
Chapter 7, "Learning Zone Traffic"	Describes the learning process and how to use this process to construct and tune the policies that the Guard uses for zone protection.
Chapter 8, "Managing Zone Policies"	Describes the zone policies and how to manage them.
Chapter 9, "Activating Zone Protection"	Describes how to configure and activate zone protection.
Chapter 10, "Monitoring Guard and Zone Operations"	Describes how to perform tasks that are used for monitoring the Guard and the zones and how to display zone statistics and diagnostic information.
Chapter 11, "Monitoring Network Traffic and Extracting Attack Signatures"	Describes how to activate the packet-dump feature and how to view the packet-dump capture files.

Symbols and Conventions

This guide uses the following conventions:

Convention	Description
boldface font	Boldface text indicates commands and keywords that you enter exactly as shown.
Italic font	Italic font indicates arguments arguments for which you supply the values.
Screen font	Screen font indicates information that the Guard displays on the screen.
Braces ({ | })	Braces enclosing keywords or arguments separated by a vertical line indicate command parameters from which you must choose one.
Square brackets ([ ])	Square brackets enclosing keywords or arguments separated by a vertical line indicate an optional choice.
admin@GUARD#	Default CLI prompt.

This guide uses the following symbols and conventions to identify different types of information:

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

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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