Chapter 3. Managing Zorp hosts

There are two ways to manage Zorp firewalls:

  • using the Zorp Management Server (ZMS) and the Zorp Management Console (ZMC) graphical user interface (GUI)

    Zorp and ZMS are designed to be configured using the Zorp Management Console (ZMC). The Zorp Professional 7 Administrator Guide focuses primarily on the preferred ZMC-based administration method.

  • manually editing the configuration files of every host

    This method requires advanced Linux skills and deep technical knowledge about how Zorp works. For more information on this procedure, see Chapter 10, Local firewall administration.

Note

The two administration methods cannot be mixed: once the editing of the configuration files is started manually, it cannot be continued or be reverted to using ZMC, unless the configuration is rebuilt from scratch.

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