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The device can now be moved to a group that has been
created for the device. It is usual that groups follow
department assignments within a business.
Within a small business it may be sufficient to have all devices
assigned to the known group and apply one set of access rules
to the known group. Larger businesses may have different
Internet access requirements for each group of employees,
and so groups should be created based on the Internet access
requirements of each group of employees.
What is a rule? it can be open access to the Internet or access to
specific websites
The Authonet firewall has three default Access Rules:
Blocked
: Blocks access to a set of IPs and DNS
entries under ANY circumstance. This overrides all
other Access Rules.
Allowed
: Allows access to a set of IPs and DNS
entries for all users of the network.
Public
: This special Access Rule allows a Device
Group to access the Public Internet; however any IP
or DNS entries contained within Blocked Access Rules
will prevent access.
The default access rules can be added to one or to many groups.
New rules can be created and added to one or more groups.
The Overview Tree: graphic representation of the groups, and
associated devices and rules
The Management,
Overview Tree
illustrates the
groups and the
devices and rules
associated with
each group.
A device can be
associated with
only one group,
whereas a rule
can be associated
with many
groups.
Click on the boxes
for the groups,
devices and rules
to edit the
information.
Device Group 1
Device B
Device A
Access
rules
Device Group 1
Device B
Device A
Access
rules
Device Group 1
Device B
Device A
Access
rules
Device Group 1
Device B
Device A
Access
rules