EWS Series User Manual

5 How to configure User Policies

User Policy

, as the term suggests, are profiles of network governing constraints which are enforced upon

users, including firewall rules, login schedule, routing rules and session allowances. There is a

Global

policy

, which will be applied if a user belongs to a Group not bound to any Policy. The number of Policy

profiles will be model dependent.

1.1 User Policy

Select Policy:

to choose which User Policy profile to configure.

Firewall Profile:

to specify the protocols & rules that will be enforced to users governed by User Policy

Service Protocol

: This link leads to a policy's Service List page where the administrator can

defined a list of services by protocols (TCP/UDP/ICMP/IP). The service names defined here forms

a choice list for configuring firewall rules.

User Firewall Rules

: This link leads to the policy's Firewall Rules page. Rule No. 1 has the highest

priority; rule No. 2 has the second priority, and so on. Each firewall rule is defined by Source,

Destination, a Service out of the policy's Service List and a Pass/Block action. Optionally, a

Firewall Rule Schedule can be set to specify when the firewall rule is enforced; it can be set to

Always, Recurring or One Time.

Privilege Profile

: to configure the flexibility and privilege for each user.