Firewall

ThingsPro Edge provides a firewall that allows you to create rules for inbound Internet network traffic to protect your IIoT gateway.

Inbound

ThingsPro Edge reserves ports for the services below.

No.	Rule	Priority	Service	Port
1	Allow	1	HTTP	80
2	Allow	1	HTTPS	8443
3	Allow	1	SSH	22
4	Allow	1	Device discovery	40404
5	Forward	5	OPCUA Server	4840

Note that ThingsPro Edge disables all ports as default excluding the reserved ports mentioned above. To add service ports, please add them in Allowed List.

Allowed List

ThingsPro Edge provides a allowed list for creation of firewall rules. You can create, edit and delete firewall rules.

Follow the steps below to create firewall rules.

Create Allow Rule:

1. Click + ADD RULE
2. Select action Allow
3. Specify a value of priority, protocol, gateway port, rule name and description (optional).
4. Specify a source IP or a subnet
5. Specify a source port or a range of ports
6. Click SAVE

Create Forward Rule:

1. Click + ADD RULE
2. Select action Forward
3. Specify a value of priority, protocol, gateway port, rule name and description (optional)
4. Specify a source IP or a subnet
5. Specify a destination IP and port
6. Click SAVE

Note that ThingsPro Edge reserves 1-500 priority for system default rules. A range of 501-1000 priority is designed for Forward action rules; while the range 1001-1500 is for Allow action rules.

Last updated on 2022-05-18 by Aeluin Chen (陳映攸)