Firewalls prevent unwanted traffic from compromising your company's security. The firewalls that are available on a Corente Services Gateway allow you to control both the inbound and outbound traffic that is allowed over multiple types of connections, from other locations in the application network, the Internet, or the LAN, to and from your Corente Services Gateway and the LAN.

You should begin the process of connecting your Locations by defining the firewalls that you will use to protect your corporate networks. To begin managing firewalls with App Net Manager, you define Firewall Services. These are the protocols (such as UDP, TCP, or ICMP) and Source/Destination Port Numbers (or ICMP type) used by certain programs and services. Next, you define Firewall Policies by assembling groups of Firewall Services to either allow or deny over inbound and outbound connections. Firewall Policies are then administered on the LAN-to-partner, LAN-to-Internet, and LAN-to-Location connections.

To access the Firewall features, open the Global Intranet Settings category in the domain directory of App Net Manager. Open the Firewalls subcategory, and both the Firewall Services and Firewall Policies features will be displayed. Any definitions that you change or create will be stored for use by all administrators of your domain.