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Monitor Firewall Rules - General Tab

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Updated: January 20, 2009

Applies To: Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2

This tab shows basic information about an inbound or outbound firewall rule that is being applied to the computer.

To get to this tab

  1. In the Windows Firewall with Advanced Security MMC snap-in, expand Monitoring, and then expand Firewall.

  2. Double-click the firewall rule you want to examine, and then click the General tab.

Local IP address

This lists the local IP address, range of addresses, or subnet to which the rule applies, as configured on the Scope tab of the Firewall Rule Properties page.

Remote IP address

This lists the remote IP address, range of addresses, or subnet to which the rule applies, as configured on the Scope tab of the Firewall Rule Properties page.

Direction

This indicates whether the rule is an Inbound or Outbound rule.

Profile

This lists the network location profiles, Domain, Private, Public or All, to which the rule applies, as configured on the Advanced tab of the Firewall Rule Properties page.