User manual PARALLELS HELM 4.1.2 WINDOWS FIREWALL MODULE GUIDE REV 1.0

[. . . ] Parallels Helm ® Legal and Copyright Notice ISBN: N/A Parallels 660 SW 39 Street Suite 205 Renton, Washington 98057 USA Phone: +1 (425) 282 6400 Fax: +1 (425) 282 6444 © Copyright 2010, Parallels, Inc. All rights reserved Distribution of this work or derivative of this work in any form is prohibited unless prior written permission is obtained from the copyright holder. Product and service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners. th Contents Preface 4 Typographical Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] Please include in your report the guide's title, chapter and section titles, and the fragment of text in which you have found an error. CHAPTER 2 About Parallels Helm Parallels Helm Web Hosting Control System is an extremely powerful hosting automation solution for Windows 2003 and Windows 2008 servers. Parallels Helm is owned by Parallels, a global leader in virtualization and automation software. Web site: http://www. parallels. com/en/products/helm/. CHAPTER 3 About This Guide This guide explains how to install the Windows Firewall module and configure Windows firewall within Parallels Helm. CHAPTER 4 Installing the Windows Firewall Module To install the Windows Firewall Module: 1. Click the Installed Modules button, and you will see the list of all the available modules for Parallels Helm. 1. Find the Windows Firewall module in the list and check the box, then click the Install/Uninstall Modules button to install it. The Windows Firewall module is now installed on your Parallels Helm build. Read on to learn how to use it in Parallels Helm. CHAPTER 5 Managing Windows Firewall Parallels Helm allows you to directly manage Windows Firewall, without the need to login to the server itself. This allows you to specify port exceptions, enable and disable the firewall, and more ­ directly through the Parallels Helm interface. To manage the Windows Firewall for a particular server in Parallels Helm: 1. Go to Home > Helm System > Servers > SERVER NAME > Windows Firewall 2. to enable Windows Firewall on the server, simply check the box labeled Enable Windows Firewall and click Save. Likewise, to disable Windows Firewall on a Parallels Helm server, uncheck this box and Save. By default in Windows Firewall there are three Services that are set by the operating system: File and Print Sharing, Remote Desktop and UPnP Framework. If you want to enable/disable these services to have access through the firewall, click the Enable/Disable button next to respective services. This will then mean these services are allowed/disallowed to communicate through the firewall. In this section you can specify your own port exceptions to allow software to communicate through the firewall on different ports. For example, you can have Helm Remote enabled on port 7086 and Remote Desktop Protocol enabled on port 4122. If you want the server to disable any of these port exceptions in the firewall, just click the Disable button next to the port exception(s) you want to disable. [. . . ] If you want to add it but leave it disabled for now, uncheck this box. 3. Choose the details of your port exception as outlined above, and click Save to save the port exception. To delete a port exception: 1. Click the port exception in the list to get taken to the Port Exception screen and then click the Delete button. 4. [. . . ]