McAfee MTP08EMB3RUA Product Guide - Page 101

Using Firewall Protection Installing and enabling firewall protection at the policy level 5 To do this... Perform these steps... Accept communications from the specified addresses 1 Select Specific address range. 2 Type a beginning and ending IP address range in either IPv4 or IPv6 format. 3 Click Approve. The IP address range is displayed in a the list of allowed addresses. Computers using this policy will accept communications originating from all IP addresses in this list. 4 Click OK. Block an existing range of IP 1 For the IP address range, click Block. The IP address range is addresses removed from the list of allowed addresses. 2 Click OK. Computers using this policy will not accept communications originating from the IP addresses you removed from the list. When using a computer in multiple locations, you might want to specify more than one range of IP addresses. For example, you might want one IP address range for office use and another for home use. To specify multiple address ranges, repeat step 4, enter another address range, then click Add again. 5 Click Save. (For a new policy, click Next, select additional options for the policy, then click Save.) Installing and enabling firewall protection at the policy level Use these tasks to install or enable firewall protection automatically for all computers using the policy. Installing firewall protection during policy updates Use this task to install firewall protection automatically whenever client computers check for an updated policy. You might want to use this feature for adding firewall protection on computers where the Total Protection Service client software is already installed. By default, this option is disabled. Enabling this feature can result in unattended installations on computers where no one is available to authorize communications that are consequently blocked by firewall protection. If this feature is used to install firewall protection on a server, it is important to configure essential system services first, to prevent disruptions. Task For option definitions, click ? in the interface. 1 On the Policies page, click Add Policy (or click Edit to modify an existing policy). 2 Select Firewall Protection, then click the General Settings tab. 3 Under Firewall Configuration, select Automatically install firewall protection on all computers using this policy. 4 Click Save. (For a new policy, click Next, select additional options for the policy, then click Save.) McAfee Total Protection Service 5.1.5 Product Guide 101