Adding Exceptions to NetResident Agents

It is possible to configure NetResident agents to ignore network traffic based on the source and/or destination IP addresses and/or ports. In essence, you are adding an exception, just like you add exceptions to a firewall. This feature may be useful in the following cases:

To add an exception, navigate to the Excluded Connections frame on the Agents tab and click Add. The follow dialog is displayed:

The Description field contains an optional description of the exception being added. The Protocol field contains the protocol name to which the exception is applicable. Under Source Address, enter the source IP address and source port of the packets that you want to have ignored. Under Destination Address, enter the destination IP address and destination port of the packets that you want to have ignored. To add an exception successfully, you must specify at least one of the four parameters. To specify any IP address, leave the field blank or use “0.0.0.0” or “::”. To specify any port, leave the field blank or use “0”. For example, the image above illustrates a rule that would ignore any traffic originating from port 3389 regardless of the source and destination IP addresses and regardless of the destination port.

By default, each NetResident agent is installed with the following set of exceptions: