NETGEAR FVS318G - System Management Overview; Changing Passwords and Administrator;Guest Settings

Network and System Management
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NETGEAR ProSAFE VPN Firewall FVS318G v2
Monitoring Tools for Traffic Management
The VPN firewall includes several tools that can be used to monitor the traffic conditions of
the firewall and content-filtering engine and to monitor the users’ access to the Internet and
the types of traffic that they are allowed to send and receive. For more information about
these tools, see Chapter 8, Monitor System Access and Performance.
System Management
This section contains the following topics:
• Change Passwords and Administrator and Guest Settings
• Configure Remote Management Access
• Use the Command-Line Interface
• Use a Simple Network Management Protocol Manager
• Manage the Configuration File
• Update the Firmware
• Configure Date and Time Service
Change Passwords and Administrator and Guest Settings
The default administrator and default guest passwords for the web management interface are
both password. NETGEAR recommends that you change the password for the administrator
account to a more secure password, and that you configure a separate secure password for
the guest account.
After a factory defaults reset, the password and time-out value are changed back to
p
assword and five minutes, respectively.
For general information about user accounts, passwords, and login
s
ettings, see Configure
User Accounts on page 295
and Set User Login Policies on page 299.
 To modify the administrator and guest passwords and idle time-out settings:
1. Log in to the unit:
a. In the address field of any of the qualified web browsers, enter
https://192.168.1.1.
The NETGEAR Configuration Manager Login screen displays.
b. In the User
name field, enter admin and in the Password / Passcode field, enter
password.
Use lowercase letters. If you changed the password, enter your persona
lized
password. Leave the domain as it is (geardomain).
c. Click the L
ogin button.
The Router Status screen displays. After five minutes of inactivity,
which is the default
login time-out, you are automatically logged out.