FWPULSE

This screen displays the current configuration information for the fwpulse aand fwpulsed daemons.  The administrator can modify the fwpulse configuration on this screen and then save the updates to the firewall.  After saving the modifications, the administrator will have to go to the  T.Rex Start/Stop Services Menu  to  refresh  fwpulse and/or fwpulsed before the modifications will take effect.

fwpulse and fwpulsed work as a pair.  fwpulse is the monitoring daemon that actively sends probes to the remote firewall to monitor its status.  fwpulsed listens for probes from fwpulse and responds to them.

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Hostname to assume on a takeover

Email address to send alerts to

Interval in seconds between each check to the remote firewall

Private port number to use for monitoring remote firewall

Specifies the port number on the remote firewall for fwpulse to connect to.  This is the port which fwpulsed on the remote firewall is listening to.

Private encryption key for communications with remote firewall

This is a string of eight 3-digit octal numbers, separated by blanks, each having a value from 0 to (octal) 377.  This set of numbers is used as a shared key by the paired firewalls to communicate with each other in private.

Maximum seconds to wait for non-response

Specifies the number of seconds to wait for the remote firewall before concluding that it is not responding.

Seconds during startup to ignore any non-response

Specifies the number of seconds during startup where a non-response is to be treated as OK (for example, when the paired firewalls are booted up at the same time but one completed the bootup sequence before the other one and the firewall that took longer to boot can appear non-responsive to a monitoring fwpulse) and we don't want an automatic takeover to occur.

Perform Automatic Takeover

Specifes whether automatic takeovers are to be initiated when the remote firewall appears to be non-responsive.

Network Rules

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