Management
Data Sources
This section includes the following topics:
All configuration data used by Amaranten Firewall Manager is stored
as a set of data files. The set of files is referred to as a data
source. Amaranten Firewall Manager is able to use multiple data
sources, which is useful if configurations for different firewalls need
to be separated for any reason.
Upon installation of Amaranten Firewall Manager, two data sources are
automatically generated; ?efault?/span>,
which is used for standard storage of configurations, and ?amples?/span>,
which contains a number of pre-defined firewall configurations that can
be used as references.
If the firewalls are to be managed
from multiple workstations, the data source should be made accessible
to these other workstations by moving it to a file server.
Managing
Data Sources
|
 Data sources are managed from
the Options dialog box shown to the right, which can be accessed by choosing
Options... from the Tools
menu.
The Default
Data Source drop-down list specifies the data source that should
be used as default in the Security Editor. If none selected, when opening
the Security Editor, a selection menu listing all available data sources
will be displayed.
Click the Add...
button to add a new data source, or Remove
to remove a data source. Please note that the actual data files are not
deleted when selecting Remove.
The Edit...
button is used to bring up a dialog where the name and the location of
the data source can be modified. Please note that if changing the location
of the data source, the actual data files need to be moved manually.
The Enabled
setting in the dialog box regulates whether the data source should be
enabled or not. A disabled data source will not show up in any selection
lists. |
Data
Source Technical Details
The information in this section
is provided to give a better understanding of the concept behind data
sources. Please note however, that modifying data source files manually
is never recommended.
Each data source consists of
a set of files that constitutes the definitions and configurations of
firewalls, namespaces and folders. There are two main file types, .EFW
files and .EFC files. An .EFW file represents a specific firewall, and
the corresponding .EFC files contains the different versions of configuration
for that firewall.
In the screen shot below, the
files in the directory representing the Default data source are listed.
For example, the GLOBAL.efw file represents the Global Namespace, and
the GLOBAL.00001.efc to GLOBAL.00004.efc contains the four different versions
of configuration for Global Namespace.
