The First Technology proxy-firewall business appliance has a custom developed web based administrative interface allowing I.T administrators with very little to no knowledge of open source technologies the ability to configure a variety of services.

The below screenshots from the web interface illustrating the ease of use for non IT skilled users

Proxy Engine Configuration

Proxy Usage Reporting by user

Top 50 sites visted per day
Top files downloaded per day
Top sites visited by each user

Firewall Configuration

Per protocol bandwidth monitoring and graphing

Complex bandwidth shaping rules made simple using the appliance