Default Parameters for WinFirewallTest

This test brings Windows Firewall configuration changes to the immediate notice of administrators, reports what has changed, and also reveals who made the change. This enables administrators to rapidly isolate unauthorized / unnecessary changes. In addition, the test also captures and reports firewall rules that failed to load the group policy, so that administrators can troubleshoot the failure.

This page depicts the default parameters that need to be configured for WinFirewallTest.

• The TEST PERIOD list box helps the user to decide how often this test needs to be executed.

• The DD FREQUENCY refers to the frequency with which detailed diagnosis measures are to be generated for this test. The default is 1:1. This indicates that, by default, detailed measures will be generated every time this test runs, and also every time the test detects a problem. You can modify this frequency, if you so desire. Also, if you intend to disable the detailed diagnosis capability for this test, you can do so by specifying none against DD FREQUENCY.

• Once the necessary values have been provided, clicking on the UPDATE button will register the changes made.

When changing default configurations of tests, the values with "$" indicate variables that will be replaced by the eG system according to the specific server being managed - for instance, $hostName is the host/nickname of the target host, $port is the port number of the server being monitored. E.g., for a server xyz:80, $hostName will be changed automatically by the eG manager to "xyz" and $port will be changed to "80" when configuring a test.