The installation is wizard-driven.



Read the license agreement and agree that if you agree with the contract conditions.

For this article we will install the SurfControl Web Filter.



Since this is the first installation will install the complete product.

For further installations may cause remote administration remote administration purposes, the option will be selected.



There is a summary of all options and the configuration is done.



After successful installation of SurfControl ins are loaded and the initial configuration can be started.



The initial setup can begin



In the first step, the personal contact information is retrieved, which is used among others for the online registration.



SurfControl's AntiVirus Agent is a system that permits the evaluation period of 30 days available for free.



The next step is to establish a connection to local SQL 2005 Express or full SQL Server 2005.

By default, SurfControl uses Windows integrated authentication.

It will create a new SurfControl Web Filter database.



If the SQL database is located on the same server as the SurfControl software, the local system account used for authentication.

If the other SQL Server on a computer has been installed, you must specify an appropriate authorized account.



For privacy reasons, may be hidden in order to respond to privacy issues in various reports, the user information in the report display.



The option CNDS for mobile clients is not selected for the demonstration in this article, as no mobile clients should be protected.

By default, all traffic will be archived once a month and then deleted the old logs.

This behavior may later be changed in the configuration of SurfControl.



with the occurrence of critical events of SurfControl's administrator can be informed by e-mail.



SurfControl uses a central database of vulnerability information. Administrators can enable the option to send anonymous information about threats to the SurfControl database.



SurfControl integrates into the existing Directory management and can create rules based on user information from Active Directory or Novell NDS.

For an expanded configuration is EUM (Enterprise User Monitoring) is required.

To install an agent on the domain controllers is required.

In simpler domain structures can also be used NetBIOS.



SurfControl is now configured.

At this point, is already an Internet connection is required, otherwise the individual steps fail, but this can be ignored without affecting the setup process.



The configuration is (finally) ready (almost).



SurfControl Web Filter installed both an application filter and a Web filter.


SurfControl Webfilter installiert jeweils einen Anwendungsfilter und einen Webfilter.
SurfControl Web Filter installed both an application filter and a Web filter.

Der SurfControl Realtime Monitor bietet eine Echtzeit-Anzeige über den von SurfControl gefilterten Datenverkehr an und kann auf die Bedürfnisse der SurfControl Administratoren angepasst werden.
SurfControl Realtime Monitor provides a real-time display on the SurfControl traffic to filtered and can be adapted to the needs of SurfControl's administrators.


SurfControl Administrator is usually the central point for the administrator-created rules.

The possible settings here are very extensive, but also very flexible.



For each rule of SurfControl's administrator can determine which traffic, data sets, allowing for the user, or they are denied.

In addition, the bandwidth can be limited and defined notification options.



SurfControl Web Filter Manager provides a comprehensive status report about the state of SurfControl's configuration and shows, for example to the ongoing services which are used signature versions, and in what condition is the SurfControl database.



In the SurfControl Web Filter settings may be a number of further adjustments are made to modify the behavior of SurfControl.

Many of the settings have already been queried by the installation wizard, but can be set as performance settings for the real-time monitoring.



The purpose of using the SurfControl database administration, administrators can configure the behavior of the database in relation to the archiving and cleanup, and determine whether the database will be compressed.



The product is very extensive and for this overview article was not all configuration options are described.

Test the product before any deployment erstmal in detail in a test environment



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