MSP - Seeming monitoring only...
Hi all,
I bought Firewalla Gold Plus for a number of reasons, one of which was 2.5G support as my network finally got 2G up/down.
There are many things about Firewalla I like, so I will stick with it and see how it goes.
I did signup for Firewalla MSP, I picked the more expensive plan for the domain name. But honestly, since setting that up I've been able to use it for absolutely nothing but monitoring.
I have had to do 100% of my firewalla setup via the iPhone app, which works quite well, at least until you are say at work and want to change something. I had hoped MSP would provide that functionality. IE I'm at work and want to make a slight change. add a new port forward, or something. I cannot do any of that.
I think all I can do from MSP is block flows and see how things are going.
I do think I found a way to have MSP tell my phone while at work to link to the firewalla to make changes. That is nice but again, what is the value for the price of MSP?
I am not sure I will continue the MSP trial a this point unless there are serious efforts made to provide some control to that interface.
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Here is what is seems it should support:
1) Ability to set name of any device (I think this works now)
2) Ability to put a device in a group
3) Ability to create new groups
4) Ability to set a device type
5) Ability to assign reserved DHCP address for any device
6) Ability to setup port forwards for devices
In the ideal world I would like to do that remotely via the portal
Basically I feel the MSP should be a computer usable version of the Firewalla App.
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Thanks for your feedback, Mark.
Managing device groups is supported now, but you need to change your view from "All Boxes" to a specific box from the top header of the web because currently device groups cannot be managed across boxes.
Setting a device type is a fairly new feature, the MSP is catching up. As for managing DHCP reservations and port forwardings, it's on our to-do list.
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> Managing device groups is supported now, but you need to change your view from "All Boxes" to a specific box from the top header of the web because currently device groups cannot be managed across boxes.
Isn't this a contradictory sentence? Device groups are supported, but devices in groups cannot be managed that way.
What does it mean?
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Hi Ross, devices in groups can be managed on the MSP UI, they just can't be "across boxes". For example, under Box A, you can group device 1 and device 2 together, apply rules, and view the flows of the group. However, you can't group device 1 in Box A and device 2 in Box B together, as they belong to different boxes.
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