WFilter Deployment Guide

4.0

Author:

IMFirewall Software

HomePage:

http://www.imfirewall.us

Contents

• System Requirements
• WFilter Components
• Installation Notice

1. System Requirements

1). Minimum Requirements

• CPU: 1.0GHz Intel Celeron or equivalent
• RAM: 512M
• OS: Windows2000/XP/2003/Vista/Win7/2008 ( both 32bit and 64bit can be supported.)

2). Recommended Requirements

• CPU: 1.8GHz Intel Pentium4
• RAM: 1G
• OS: Windows2000/XP/2003/Vista/Win7/2008 ( both 32bit and 64bit can be supported.)

The above requirements are calculated for monitoring/filtering of maximum 25 computers. If you need to monitor/filter more computers, please check the following algorithm:

3). Calculate hard disk space and RAM required.

• 1M RAM is required for each monitored computers.
  

  RAM needed = monitored computers number(N) * 1M

• Required harddisk space is related to monitored computers number and log keeping days, each monitored computer will cost about 2M space per day.
  

  Hard disk space needed = monitored computers number(N) * 2M * log keeping days

2. WFilter Components

3. Installation Notice

1. WFilter main process needs to listen on TCP port 9090 to handle web UI. If you can not open WFilter UI, please adjust your firewall program settings.
2. A web browser of Internet Explorer 6.0 or firefox 3.0 is required for WFilter web UI to display correctly.
3. The default trial version only monitors 8 computers, if you want to evaluate monitoring of more computers, please apply for evaluation keys at: Get WFilter Evaluation Keys.
4. If this is your first time using WFilter, please read the "Getting Started with WFilter".
5. If you cannot monitor other computers in your network, it is a deployment issue. Please check: "WFilter Deployment Examples".
6. For questions about WFilter settings, please check "WFilter Configuration Examples".
7. For support, please contact us.