


) In my defense, however, the web-based management utility that ships with the Celestix MSA Series security appliance is configured to use port 10000. Embarrassingly enough, I work for Celestix Networks but didn’t know this. According to Jim Harrison, this system policy rule was implemented to provide OEM’s a way to enable remote web-based management of an ISA appliance. So, is there a native web-based management application for Microsoft ISA Server 2006? The answer is no at least not natively. If you view the access rule itself, you will notice that the protocol defined is “ISA Server Web Management” and is configured to use TCP port 2175 outbound. This rule is disabled by default when you install the ISA firewall software. The description of the rule states that “Enabling this configuration group enables system policy rules that allow remote management of ISA server from selected computers using Web applications”. In response to my recent blog post about system policies in Microsoft ISA Server, several people asked me about a rule called ‘Web Management’…
