User manual PARALLELS HELM 4.1.2 WINDOWS FIREWALL MODULE GUIDE REV 1.0

[. . . ] 4 Feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 About Parallels Helm About This Guide Installing the Windows Firewall Module Managing Windows Firewall 6 7 8 9 CHAPTER 1 Preface In this chapter: Typographical Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] 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. Open the Parallels Helm Configuration Tool on your server. 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. Here you will see your current Windows Firewall settings. They are split into three sections: Windows Firewall. 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. [. . . ] Generally UDP is commonly used for streaming audio and video, and TCP is used for everything else ­ check the documentation of the software you are allowing through the firewall to see which protocol it uses. 10 Managing Windows Firewall Enable Port: If you want to make this port exception active straight away, check this box. 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. [. . . ]