Table of Contents 1 Introduction 1.1 About this manual Administration and Configuration Manual 1.2 Terms used in this manual 1.3 GFI WebMonitor editions 1.4 GFI WebMonitor licensing 2 About GFI WebMonitor 2.1 How does GFI WebMonitor work? 2.2 Installing GFI WebMonitor 2.2.1 Introduction 2.2.2 Choosing your environment 2.2.3 Internet Gateway environment 2.2.4 Simple Proxy environment Port Blocking Traffic Forwarding 3 Installing in Gateway mode 3.1 Introduction 3.2 System Requirements 3.2.1 Software Supported Operating Systems Other required components 3.2.2 Hardware All Editions WebFilter Edition WebSecurity Edition Unified Protection Edition 3.3 Installation 3.3.1 Pre-requisites 3.3.2 Upgrades 3.3.3 Installation procedure 3.3.4 Post-installation test 3.3.5 Post-installation actions Configuring GFI WebMonitor machine as the default proxy using GPO in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Configuring GFI WebMonitor machine as the default proxy using GPO in Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Configuring Internet browsers to use a proxy server Microsoft Internet Explorer Mozilla Firefox Google Chrome 4 Installing in Simple Proxy mode 4.1 Introduction 4.2 System Requirements 4.2.1 Software Supported Operating Systems Other required components 4.2.2 Hardware All Editions WebFilter Edition WebSecurity Edition Unified Protection Edition 4.3 Installation 4.3.1 Pre-requisites 4.3.2 Upgrades 4.3.3 Installation procedure 4.3.4 Post-installation test 4.3.5 Post-installation actions Configuring GFI WebMonitor machine as the default proxy using GPO in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Configuring GFI WebMonitor machine as the default proxy using GPO in Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Configuring Internet browsers to use a proxy server Microsoft Internet Explorer Mozilla Firefox Google Chrome 5 Customizing Proxy settings 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Configuring Network Configuration 5.3 Configuring Authentication Method No authentication Basic authentication Integrated authentication Exception List 5.4 Configuring Chained Proxy 6 Uninstalling GFI WebMonitor 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Uninstalling GFI WebMonitor 7 Launching GFI WebMonitor 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Launching GFI WebMonitor 7.3 Navigating the console 8 Miscellaneous 8.1 Introduction 8.2 Entering your license key after installation 8.3 Enabling WPAD in Proxy Settings 8.3.1 Refreshing cached Microsoft Internet Explorer settings 8.4 Configuring Routing and Remote Access 8.5 Configuring Commonly Used Routers for Port Blocking or Traffic Forwarding 8.5.1 SonicWall TZ 180 Step 1: Creating a new firewall service for port 80 Step 2: Blocking the new service Step 3: Creating a firewall access rule to allow HTTP traffic from GFI WebMonitor Proxy Step 4: Traffic forwarding to GFI WebMonitor Proxy 8.5.2 SonicWall NSA 2400 Step 1: Defining network addresses Step 2: Creating firewall rules 8.5.3 Cisco ADSL Router Cisco 878 (MPC8272) 8.5.4 Netgear Wireless Router DG834GT Step 1: Creating a firewall access rule to allow HTTP traffic from GFI WebMonitor Proxy Step 2: Creating a firewall access rule to block all outgoing HTTP traffic 8.5.5 DrayTek VIGOR 2820N ADSL2 8.5.6 Linksys WRT54GL Wireless Router 8.5.7 Thomson Wireless Broadband Router TG585 v7 Step 1: Creating a firewall access rule to allow HTTP traffic from GFI WebMonitor Proxy Step 2: Creating a firewall access rule to block all outgoing HTTP traffic 8.6 Disabling Internet Connections Settings on Client machines 8.6.1 Disabling Internet Connections page using GPO in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 8.6.2 Disabling Internet Connections page using GPO in Microsoft Windows Server 2008 8.7 Assigning Log On As A Service rights 8.7.1 Assigning Log On As A Service rights on Microsoft Windows XP and Microsoft Windows Vista manually 8.7.2 Assigning Log On As A Service rights on a server machine manually 8.7.3 Assigning Log On As A Service rights using GPO in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 8.7.4 Assigning Log On As A Service rights using GPO in Microsoft Windows Server 2008 8.8 Configuring Network Access policy Configuring network access manually Configuring network access using GPO in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Configuring network access using GPO in Microsoft Windows Server 2008 9 Troubleshooting 9.1 Introduction 9.2 Common Issues 9.3 Knowledge Base 9.4 Web Forum 9.5 Request technical support 9.6 Build notifications 10 Glossary