Managing a Firewall Profile

A firewall profile defines the level of protection. It allows to choose the attributes before applying a policy.
To create a firewall profile, perform the following steps:
  1. Select Firewall, the Firewall Profiles page is displayed.
    The Summary tab displays the firewall profiles in chart and graph format. You can filter the profiles based on duration and zone.
  2. Select Profiles tab and click Create.
    This displays the Create Firewall Profile page.

    Creating Firewall Policy

  3. In the Name field, enter a name for this profile.
  4. In the Description field, enter a short description for this profile.
  5. In the Rate Limiting field, select the Uplink and Downlink options to specify and apply rate limit values for the device policy to control the data rate.
  6. Configure the following policies:
    1. Select the L3 Access Control Policy from the drop-down list or click to create a new policy. Refer to Create an L3 Access Control Policy for more information.
    2. Select the L2 Access Control Policy from the drop-down list or click to create a new policy. Refer to Creating an L2 Access Control Service for more information.
    3. Select the Application Policy from the drop-down list or click to create a new policy. Refer to Creating an Application Control Policy for more information.
    4. Select the URL Filtering Profile from the drop-down list or click to create a new profile. Refer to Enabling URL Filtering on the WLAN for more information.
    5. Select the Device Policy from the drop-down list or click to create a new policy. Refer to Creating a Device Policy for more information.
  7. Click OK.
    Note: You can also edit, clone and delete a firewall profile by selecting the options Configure, Clone and Delete respectively, from the Firewall Profiles page.
    Note: At system level user can create maximum 64 firewall profiles.

In this section:

  1. Create an L3 Access Control Policy
    An L3 Access Control Policy can be created to block or limit user traffic based on a number of factors, including Source IP address, Port, Destination IP address, Protocol, etc. Additionally, an L3 Access Control Policy can be created to shape traffic according to a configurable Application Control Policy.
  2. Creating an L2 Access Control Policy
  3. Configuring Application Controls
    Using the Application Control screen, you can identify, control, and monitor applications that are running on wireless and wired clients associated with managed APs, and you can also apply filtering policies to prevent users from accessing certain applications.
  4. URL Filtering
    Administrators can use the URL filtering feature to block access to inappropriate websites. The Web pages available on the internet are classified into different categories, and those identified to be blocked can be configured based on available categories. Administrators can also create policies based on these categories, to allow or deny user access.
  5. Creating a Device Policy
    You can control how devices installed with certain OS configurations can be connected to the network, and also control what they can be allowed to do within the network. Using the device policy service, the system can identify the type of client attempting to connect, and perform control actions such as allowing or blocking access, rate limiting, and VLAN tagging based on the OS rule.
Parent topic: Firewall Profile