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NetPilot V4 'How To' documents

Chapter 1 - Start up

(a): What each link on the welcome page is.
(b): How Admin or a User can log in from the Internet
(c): How to choose the correct option/s from the drop down list on the Connections main screen.
(d): How to manually configure your NetPilot, using a public IP address on the Internet connection.
(f): This document will assit you in migrating your Version 3 configurations to a Version 5 unit in the Aladin Upgrade scheme, including users and emails.

Chapter 2 - Factory Reset

(a): How to Factory Reset the NetPilot using a monitor and keyboard. This method is without the use of the management screens.
(b): How to Factory Reset your NetPilot via the Management Screens.

Chapter 3 - Change the Cache size and Clearing the Cache

(a): How to change the size of the cache on your NetPilot.
(b): How to Clear the Cache on your NetPilot.

Chapter 4 - Time

(a): How to add a Network Time Protocol Server to your NetPilot.
(b): How to delete a Network Time Protocol Server on your NetPilot.
(c): How to set the Time and Date manually.
(d): How to set the TimeZone on your NetPilot.

Chapter 5 - Static Routes

(a): How to add a static route to your NetPilot.
(b): How to delete a static route from your NetPilot.

Chapter 6 - DNS Server

(a): How to enter a DNS server on your NetPilot.
(b): How to delete a DNS server from your NetPilot.

Chapter 7 - Port forwarding

(a): How to set up Port forwarding on your NetPilot, with the Standard Firewall.
(b): How to set up Port Forwarding on your NetPilot with the Advanced Firewall.
(c): How to set up pcAnywhere on your NetPilot using the Advanced Firewall.
(d): How to port-forward VNC from specific hosts to a single host on a customer's LAN.
(e): How to port-forward VNC from any host on the Internet to a single host on a customer's LAN.
(f): How to port-forward VNC coming from any ost on the Internet to serveral different hosts on the LAN.

Chapter 8 - Reboot

How to reboot your NetPilot.

Chapter 9 - User Accounts

(a): How to add, edit, copy or delete a User Account on your NetPilot.
(c): How to select V3 Web Authentication options on your V4 NetPilot.
A brief description for each of the new options given.

Chapter 10 - Interface List

How to view the Interface List on your NetPilot.

Chapter 11 - Network Diagnostics

How to view the Network Diagnostics on your NetPilot.

Chapter 12 - Time Bands

How to change the Time Bands on your Net/Cache/SecurePilot.

Chapter 13 - Active Directory

(a): How to add Site Lists and Groups to your Net/Cache/SecurePilot.
(b): How to add a 'User' to your Net/Cache/SecurePilot that will match your Active Directory 'Security Group'.
How to set-up your Net/Cache/SecurePilot to use Active Directory Integration on a Windows 2000/2003 Server.

(c): How to isolate an individual user's web activity when they are a member of a Group in Active Directory.

Chapter 14 - Site Lists

Allowing Blocked Sites at a Specific Time:
How to add a Whitelist with the specific sites
How to add a Timebands to specify when the site can and cannot be visited
How to add the Whitelist to the Global Group to apply all users.

Chapter 15 - Passwords

(a): How to change the Admin Password.
(b): How a user can change their own Password.

Chapter 16 - CSV Lists

How to set-up CSV lists on your NetPilot.

Chapter 17 - SmartFilter

A comparsion of N2H2 to Smartfilter URL filtering categories.
All of the Smartfilter URL filtering categories listed with Equiinet's recommendations for category blocking, a short description of each category and a few example URL's will be listed.

Chapter 18 - Webmail and email

(a): How to set up your email, in the below sections; Changing Email Server settings, Email Times, User Accounts and Configure Email Client e.g. Outlook
(b): How to allow access to Webmail from a PC client with a fixed IP Address
How to allow access to Webmail from a PC client without a fixed IP Address
How to use Webmail

(b): Hardcopy of the Webmail help file
(c): How to permit an external address to Mail Relay through your NetPilot.
(d): Some explainations of words used in the email logs.
(e): How to copy an internal user's email to an external account.
(f): How to change the Administrator's Email Address on the NetPilot.

Chapter 21 - Licences

(a): How to add a licence on your NetPilot.
(b): How to delete a licence on your NetPilot.

Chapter 22 - User Groups

22: General Information about User Groups
(a): How to create a 'Group' on your NetPilot, and general information.
(b): How to delete a 'Group' on your NetPilot.

Chapter 23 - Upgrading & Registering

(a): How to upgrade you NetPilot from 4.0.x to 4.2.2.
(b): How to register your Netpilot on-line.

Chapter 24 - Privacy/Proxy

(a): How to change the 'Privacy settings' on your NetPilot.
What each 'Privacy setting' does and what the extra headers text box is for.
(b): HTTP headers.
(c): How to set your proxy settings correctly on your web browser.

Chapter 25 - Email Filtering Policy

25: Quick Start to reducing Spam.
(a): What each Email Filter Policy 'Settings' allows you to do
Understanding the structure of the Email Filter Policy Tree
What makes up the Email Filter Policy Tree?

(aa): The three options of Email Filter Policy 'Settings' explained in more detail
(ab): How to activate the 'forward a copy' 'Action' in the 'Policy Tree'
(ac): Templates
(ad): Actions
(ae): Auto Responder
(af): Patterns
(ag): Policies
(b): How to teach the NetPilot Bayesian Ham and Spam Emails by using the Spam and Virus Licences
How to reclassify emails as Ham or Spam

(ba): How to add a reclassify footer to emails using Email Filter Policy, which will allow admin and any other user to reclassify their mail as Ham or Spam
(bb): How any user can reclassify their emails if the reclassify footer is not shown
(c): How to classify single or bulk amounts of emails caught in Quarantine
How to view summaries of the email headers and the full email headers
A brief description of the options given in the drop down list of Quarantine

(d): How to view the mails gone through the NetPilot and Reclassify them if necessary
How to view the summaries of the email headers and the full email headers

(e): How to block domains, specific email addresses, words or phrases
(f): How to allow domains, specific email addresses, words or phrases
(g): How to block or allow a certain size or type of an Attachment (Use Chapter 25 (ga) in conjunction with this Chapter)
(ga): List of attachments and the string which should be entered into a 'Pattern' within the Email Filter Policy
(h): How to create an Out-of-Office rule in the Email Filtering Policy section, this is broken down into the following four sections: Creating a Template, an Action, a Pattern, and entering the Out-of-Office function
(i): How to create a rule for the whole company to send internal mail only
How to create a rule for one or many individual/s to send internal mail only

Chapter 26 - VPN and Other Network Profiles

26: A definition of each Trust Group that is in the firewall, and a definition of each Network Profile.
(a): How to configure an IPSec VPN connection from a NetPilot or PC to NetPilot.
(b): How to configure a CIPE VPN connection from one NetPilot to another.
(c): How to configure a RoadWarrior profile
(d): How to add a VPN tunnel via SafeNet SoftRemote Client.
(e): How to edit, delete and de/activate a VPN Profile.
(f): How to set-up an Open VPN Roadwarrior profile (for System Administrator's). !!!! With Vista Tips!!!!
(f): An excel Spreadsheet that you can edit to match your own IP range and allocate users the correct Virtual IP Address.

 

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