3.2.1.3.1. Procedure – Adding new configuration components to host

Purpose: 

To add a new confiugration component to a host, complete the following steps.

Steps: 

1. Select the host you want to add a new component to in the Configuration tree.

   

   Figure 3.7. Adding new components

2. Navigate to the Hosttab, and under the Components in use section, click New.

3. Select the configuration component to add from the Components available list.

   Note
   For managing PNS firewall hosts, it is essential to add the Application-level Gateway and the Packet Filter components, at the very minimum.

   The configuration components are strictly focused on the service they manage and all have a distinctive graphical management interface accordingly. For more information on the different components, see the respective chapters.

   

   Figure 3.8. Configuration components

   The following components are available:

   • Authentication Server: Authentication Server (AS).

   • Content Vectoring: Content Filtering (CF).

   • Mail transport: POSTFIX.

   • Management agents:

   • Management server: Management Server (MS)

   • Networking:

   • Packet filter:

   • System logging: syslog-ng

   • Text editor:

   • Time: NTP

   • VPN:

   • Application-level Gateway:

4. Select the template to use for the component from the Component templates list.

5. Depending on the component, either enter default values for the component in the appearing new window or select a default configuration template.

   These built-in templates are configuration skeletons with some default values and options preset. Creating new configuration templates is also possible.

6. Click OK.