| 15.4 |  | Using PDM to Configure the PIX Security Appliance |
| 15.4.7 |  | System Properties tab |

| The System Properties tab enables the administrator to configure many aspects of the PIX Security Appliance, including the following:

- Interfaces - In addition to their names, the Interfaces panel displays, and enables the administrator to edit additional configuration information required for each interface. The configuration edits are captured by PDM but will not be sent to the PIX Security Appliance until Apply to PIX is clicked.
- Failover - Enables administrators to enable, disable, and configure failover and stateful failover.
- Routing - The routing panel is divided into three sections. Each section deals with a different type of routing configurations. These routing configurations are listed as Routing Information Protocol (RIP), Static Routes, and Proxy Address Resolution Protocols (ARPs).
- PIX Administration Users - This panel enables the administrator to create local user accounts.
- Logging - This panel deals with the various logging functions of the PIX. It includes the following sections:
  - Logging Setup
  - PDM logging
  - Syslog
- Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) - The AAA panel allows the administrator to define the AAA devices and properties to be used. This panel contains three sections, AAA Server Groups, AAA Servers, and Auth. Prompt.
- URL Filtering - This panel enables administrators to prevent users from accessing external WWW URLs that are designated using the Websense URL filtering server.
- Intrusion Detection - This panel allows the administrator to define IDS Policy and how it will be applied to various IDS Signatures.
- Advanced - This panel allows the administrator to set various other advanced options. It is made up of the following five panels, with the FixUp panel having further selections nested beneath it:
  - Fixup (FTP, H.232, HTTP, RSH, RTSP, SIP, Skinny, SMTP, SQL*Net)
  - Anti-Spoofing
  - Fragment
  - TCP Options
  - Timeout
- History Metrics - This panel enables the PIX Security Appliance to keep a history of many statistics, which can be displayed by PDM through the Monitoring tab.