Most configuration tasks concerning PNS are component–based and even those that are site-wide, such as Zone manipulation, must be individually uploaded to all firewalls of the given site. Therefore, configuration tasks can be organized into cycles and most elements of these cycles are the same regardless of the component that is configured. In fact, most of the configuration is repetitive and therefore can easily be procedurized.

In this section, after a brief overview of the most typical steps, the configuration process and the tools (buttons) that are used to perform each task are presented.