Proxedo Network Security Suite 2 Installation Guide

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February 29, 2024


Table of Contents

Preface
1. Target audience and prerequisites
2. Products covered in this guide
3. Contact and support information
3.1. Sales contact
3.2. Support contact
3.3. Training
4. About this document
4.1. Feedback
1. System requirements
1.1. Hardware requirements for a PNS firewall host
1.1.1. Sizing PNS hosts
1.2. Hardware requirements for Management Server (MS) and Authentication Server (AS) hosts
1.3. Hardware requirements for a Content Filtering (CF) host
1.4. Hardware requirements for a Management Console (MC)
2. Account requirements
2.1. Personal account
2.2. Technical account
3. Installing PNS on an existing Ubuntu server
3.1. Installing Ubuntu Server
3.2. Installing PNS on a Ubuntu server
3.3. Overview of the installation process
3.4. Reconfiguring already installed packages
4. Configuring PNS components
4.1. Configuring PNS modules
4.1.1. Configuring Postfix
4.1.2. Configuring the pns-common package
4.1.3. Configuring the ESET (NOD32) virus filtering modules
4.1.4. Configuring One Time Password for initial connection to MSs
4.1.5. Configuring Management Server (MS)
4.1.6. Selecting the role of the host
4.1.7. Installing the electronic license keys
4.2. Upgrading PNS hosts using apt
5. Installing the Management Console (MC)
5.1. Using MC on GNU/Linux platforms
6. Installing the Authentication Agent (AA)
6.1. Installing the Authentication Agent on Microsoft Windows platforms
6.1.1. Installing the Authentication Agent on Microsoft Windows
6.1.2. Installing Authentication Agent with Group Policy Object (GPO) deployment
6.2. Using AA on GNU/Linux platforms
A. Further readings
A.1. PNS-related material
A.2. General, Linux-related materials
A.3. Postfix documentation
A.4. BIND Documentation
A.5. NTP references
A.6. SSH resources
A.7. TCP/IP Networking
A.8. Netfilter/IPTables
A.9. General security-related resources
A.10. syslog-ng references
A.11. Python references
A.12. Public key infrastructure (PKI)
A.13. Virtual Private Networks (VPN)
B. Proxedo Network Security Suite End-User License Agreement
B.1. 1. SUBJECT OF THE LICENSE CONTRACT
B.2. 2. DEFINITIONS
B.3. 3. LICENSE GRANTS AND RESTRICTIONS
B.4. 4. SUBSIDIARIES
B.5. 5. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
B.6. 6. TRADE MARKS
B.7. 7. NEGLIGENT INFRINGEMENT
B.8. 8. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY INDEMNIFICATION
B.9. 9. LICENSE FEE
B.10. 10. WARRANTIES
B.11. 11. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
B.12. 12. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
B.13. 13.DURATION AND TERMINATION
B.14. 14. AMENDMENTS
B.15. 15. WAIVER
B.16. 16. SEVERABILITY
B.17. 17. NOTICES
B.18. 18. MISCELLANEOUS
C. Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd) License

List of Examples

4.1.