NETGEAR UTM5 User Manual

Network and System Management
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ProSecure Unified Threat Management (UTM) Appliance
Use QoS and Bandwidth Assignments to Shift the Traffic Mix
By specifying QoS and bandwidth profiles and assigning these profiles to outbound and
inbound firewall rules, you can shift the traffic mix to aim for optimum performance of the
UTM.
Assign QoS Profiles
The QoS profile settings determine the priority and, in turn, the quality of service for the traffic
passing through the UTM. After you have created a QoS profile, you can assign the QoS
profile to firewall rules. The QoS is set individually for each service. You can change the mix
of traffic through the WAN ports by granting some services a higher priority than others:
• You can accept the default priority defined by the service itself by not changing its QoS
setting.
• You can change the priority to a higher or lower value than its default setting to give the
service higher or lower priority than it otherwise would have.
For more information about QoS profiles, see Create Quality of Service Profiles on page 160.
Assign Bandwidth Profiles
When you apply a QoS profile, the WAN bandwidth does not change. You change the WAN
bandwidth that is assigned to a service or application by applying a bandwidth profile. The
purpose of bandwidth profiles is to provide a method for allocating and limiting traffic, thus
allocating LAN users sufficient bandwidth while preventing them from consuming all the
bandwidth on your WAN links.
For more information about bandwidth profiles, see Create Bandwidth Profiles on page 162.
Monitoring Tools for Traffic Management
The UTM 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 have. See Chapter 11, Monitoring System Access and
Performance, for a description of these tools.
System Management
System management tasks are described in the following sections:
• Change Passwords and Administrator and Guest Settings
• Configure Remote Management Access
• Use a Simple Network Management Protocol Manager
• Manage the Configuration File
• Update the Firmware
• Update the Scan Signatures and Scan Engine Firmware
• Configure Date and Time Service

NETGEAR UTM5 Specifications

General

Brand	NETGEAR
Model	UTM5
Category	Firewall
Language	English