Nov 24
As you know there are multiple ways how to visualize the log data with StoneGate Management Client. You have probably noticed the “Statistics” shortcuts in the Log Browser’s toolbar already. Here is another convenient way to find more log statistics shortcuts:
Just right-click any column header in the Log Browser and select some of the log statistics shortcuts from the menu that opens. Note that these shortcuts are all related to the column you originally selected.
A picture is worth a thousand words! Log Statistics provide you efficient tools to drill in to the relevant pieces of log data.
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\\ tags: Log Statistics, logs, Shortcuts, SMC, Tips & Tricks
Nov 16
In SMC 5.0 there is one new shortcut that speeds up the daily administration tasks a bit. You can namely create new hosts wherever you see IP addresses. Just right-click that IP address and select “New Host” action from the menu that opens. This is a nice shortcut when you recognize some IP from the logs and you know you need to use a host element with that IP later e.g. in a security policy.
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\\ tags: logs, New Host, Shortcuts, SMC, Tips & Tricks
Nov 11
You have probably noticed that there are lots of useful shortcut actions in engines’ right-click menu. You can e.g. view logs from that firewall or access the engine’s current policy by right-clicking the engine and selecting the actions from the menu that opens.
Since SMC 4.3 this right-click menu has also contained actions that open Overview of engine specific statistics. But did you know that you can customize which Overview templates are visible there?
Read for more instructions how do you do this… Continue reading »
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\\ tags: Monitoring, Overview, SMC, Tips & Tricks
Sep 02
Fresh from relaxing holidays, I’m sharing with you all this interesting case I came across this morning.
The request from a colleague was to configure our SSL VPN system to combine more than one authentication method (for instance, StoneGate Web pad + StoneGate SMS Authentication) to give access to the Application Portal.
This is to strengthen furthermore the security level a user can implement with StoneGate SSL VPN solution.
Here’s how to configure the system.
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\\ tags: double authentication, howto, SSL VPN, Tips & Tricks
Aug 13
Reference Search helps you to easily see where the elements are used. You can access the reference search by right-clicking the element and selecting “Tools – References” from the menu that opens. (Alternatively you can just select an element and press Ctrl+G).
In the snapshot above, the user was interested to know where the “test host” element is used. The reference search results list shows that the element is used by two rules in the “Test Policy”. From the “Rule Info” tab in the Info panel, the user can instantly preview the rule. There he can quickly see for example that the selected rule seems to be a NAT rule while the first one was an Access rule.
If the user right-clicks the rule in the search results list, he can also open the policy for editing. When this action is selected, the policy editor is opened and the rule that was selected is highlighted.
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\\ tags: SMC, Tips & Tricks
Jul 29
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This video demonstrates how to take StoneGate Third Party Monitoring features into use. Click the video below to see how you can assign
Probing,
Logging and
Tools Profiles for hosts and routers in StoneGate Management Center 5.0.
This was the last SMC video article by far. Note that all videos are stored in Videos section of StoneBlog Community.
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\\ tags: 5.0, Examples, SMC, Tips & Tricks, Training, Videos
Jul 27
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As already explained in
this article, you can easily create logging profiles that defines how the syslog that is sent by some third party device is displayed in StoneGate’s Log Browser. This video shows the whole process of creating a new logging profile from scratch.
Remember that you can share your logging profiles in Files section of StoneBlog Community.
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\\ tags: 5.0, Examples, SMC, Tips & Tricks, Training, Videos
Jul 24
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With StoneGate Management Center 5.0 you can now monitor also your third party devices such as critical servers, routers and firewalls from other vendors. StoneGate’s Third Party Event Management features allows you to monitor the
status of device, receive the
logs from the device in StoneGate Log Browser, create statistics and reports based on the third party log data and customize
commands for the elements’ right-click menu.
See the video below to see how you can monitor your third party devices with StoneGate Management Center.
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\\ tags: 5.0, Examples, SMC, Tips & Tricks, Training, Videos
Jul 22
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We have recently added many other enhancements in policy editor that makes your daily administration tasks more efficient than ever. The video below introduces some of these policy enhancements such as
Undo & Redo and
Rule Comment Sections.
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\\ tags: 5.0, Examples, SMC, Tips & Tricks, Training, Videos
Jul 20
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StoneGate’s policies and logs are tightly linked. There are many
shortcuts how to move from logs to corresponding rule in the policy and vice versa. The latest addition on this side is that you can now
create new rules based on selected log entries. See the example video below about how to create rules from Logs with StoneGate Management Center.
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\\ tags: 5.0, Examples, SMC, Tips & Tricks, Training, Videos
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