List of web services tab

This tab provides an overview of the web services defined on the firewall. The web services grid consists of two sections:

  • The list of official web services,
  • The list of custom web services. This list appears only if a custom database has been imported.

Official web services

These are the most common online web services (e.g., Microsoft Office 365, Logmein, Sharepoint or Webex) and are automatically imported and updated via Active Update.
Each web service is made up of public IP addresses and/or FQDNs.

The following are a web service's characteristics:

Name Name given to the group.
Usage

When the color of the icon is:

  • Green, the web service in question belongs to a service group or is used in the firewall's configuration.
  • Black, the group in question does not belong to any service group and is not used in the firewall's configuration.

When you scroll over a web service, a tooltip shows its properties:

  • Name: name of the web service, e.g., Microsoft Office 365,
  • Description: the contents of the service, e.g., IP addresses and domains to reach Microsoft Office 365 online services,
  • Read only: indicates whether the service can be renamed or deleted. Official web services are always in read-only mode,
  • Revision number: this number is incremented every time Active Update retrieves a new version of information about the web service in question from the provider,
  • Revised on: this is the date when Active Update last retrieved an update on the information about the web service in question from the provider,
  • URL: specifies the addresses with which the service’s FQDN lists or public IP addresses can be looked up with the provider.

Custom web services

This list appears only when custom web services have been imported via a CSV file (Import custom services tab).

When you scroll over a web service, a tooltip shows its properties:

  • Name: name of the web service, e.g., MyCustomWebService,
  • Description: corresponds to the optional comments added for the service in the import file,
  • Read only: indicates whether the service can be renamed or deleted. Customized services are always in read-only mode. Only the full database of custom web services can be deleted,
  • Revision number: this number is specified manually in the CSV import file,
  • Revised on: this date is specified manually in the CSV import file,
  • No. of IPv4 addresses: indicates the number of IPv4 addresses that define the web service,
  • No. of IPv6 addresses: indicates the number of IPv6 addresses that define the web service,
  • No. of FQDNs: indicates the number of FQDNs that define the web service.

Possible operations

Enter a filter Enter a sequence of letters found in the name of the web services you are looking for, to restrict the display to these services.
Export custom database By clicking on this button, all custom web services are exported to a downloadable CSV file.
Delete custom database Clicking on this button allows you to delete the whole custom web service database.
Check usage

This button allows you to check whether a web service listed in the grid is used in the firewall's configuration:

  1. Select the web service.
  2. Click on Check usage.
    The configuration modules that use this web service are shown in the menu on the left.