Operation Manual

Plug-Ins

4 Plug-Ins

4.1 Introduction

One of Outpost Firewall’s most useful and effective design strategies is the employment

of plug-ins. These modules can be created by third-party developers and easily added to

increase Outpost Firewall’s capabilities.

If you are interested in developing Outpost Firewall plug-ins, please visit

http://www.agnitum.com/products/outpost/developers.html for samples, tutorials and the

developer’s forum.

Please note that plug-ins are absolutely independent from each other and the main Outpost

Firewall module.

The dialog window to control these plug-ins is accessed from a right-click the system tray

icon and selecting Options and then the Plug-Ins tab. You can also access this dialog from

the main window using the menu Options, then selecting Plug-Ins Setup.

This is the Plug-Ins dialog window:

The right-side buttons are:

• Add—used to add a new plug-in to Outpost Firewall using Windows’ file open

dialog.

• Remove—used to delete a plug-in that is highlighted on the list.

• Start—starts a highlighted plug-in that is stopped.