User guide

User Guide 183
CHAPTER 11 Managing the Firebox
and User Accounts
The Firebox® X Edge includes tools you can use to manage your net-
work and your users. You can:
• Examine current users and properties
• Configure user profiles and customize user accounts
• Apply upgrades to the Edge and activate new features
• Examine the current configuration file in a text format
Seeing Current Sessions and Users
A session is created when traffic goes from a computer on the trusted
or optional network to a computer on the external network. A session
is also created when a connection is made from a computer on the
trusted or optional network to the Firebox® X Edge. For example, when
a user on your trusted network opens a browser to connect to a Web
site on the Internet, a session starts on the Firebox X Edge. When a
user on the trusted or optional network authenticates to the Edge, a
session starts on the Edge.