User guide

Comparing WFS and Fireware Pro
8 WatchGuard System Manager
Tunnel Display/
Monitor
Yes Yes Yes • Only tunnels that are “up” will
display in the front panel tree.
Fire w a re
HostWatch
Yes Yes Improved You can add sites to the blocked
sites list
Conversion
WFS to Fire w a re Future
Release
Yes N/A Will produce a com prehensive
report of the configuration
conversion and identify any
areas that need custom er
attention.
Fireware Policy
Management
Policy Manager Yes Yes Yes Entirely new for Firew are 8.0
Fire w a ll Policies Yes Yes Improved Incom ing/outgoing gone.
R eplaced with from /to m odel
BOVPN Setup Yes Yes Improved New UI model for VPN clearly
identifies firew all policies that act
on tunnel traffic
MUVPN Setup Yes Yes Yes Xauth only
PPTP Setup Yes Yes Yes Sam e limit of 50 PPTP
connections/tunnels per device.
Custom er ordered
policies
Yes Yes N/A
Auto-policy
ordering
Yes Yes Yes Policy ordering algorithm s mimic
WFS policy ordering
1:1 NAT Yes Yes Yes
Dynam ic NAT Yes Yes Yes
Static NAT Yes Yes Yes
CLI Fire w a re CLI Yes No No Not heavily advertised. R equired
for Com mon Criteria certification.
PO LICY CONFIGURATION IS
NOT COMPATIBLE WITH
FIREW ARE PO LICY
MANAGER.
WFS FB SH N/A No N/A Not distributed/released
Web UI Future
Release
Logging Log Server Yes Yes Yes New XM L log-server
LogView er Yes Yes Yes New XM L log view er
Log content Yes Yes No All logs are new with Firew are
8.0.
R eporting Historical R eports Yes Yes Improved Five new reports added. S upport
for XM L log files.
Feature or Functional Area Com plete E ase
of
Use
Like
WFS
Notes