There ought to be function to turn off an entire group of users in the portal, in the same way as Ban locations. (allow or block)

This would be good because then you can turn off the internet for an entire grade of students, when they have written tests in different locations a certain time of day.

Obviously it would be great to also be able to set start and stop times, but you can start with just allow and block.

It doesn't look the same as the block page and confuses users (and says contact your administrator rather than who that administrator is)

Each directory should be marked as working/not working if it is enabled, this way a user can instantly see if their settings "took". The "not working" graphic should click thru to diags

The Dashboard traffic graph just shows "k" for the units, whereas they are technically kBytes/sec (according to Smoothwall support). Can this be updated to show kB/s? Should be a simple fix.

Inbound blocked rose, outbound blocked RED, forward light green, outbound allowed green, etc ..

It would make looking @ the Realtime logs easier. Everything blends together otherwise.

At current, after Temporary bans expire, they stay until a Smoothwall Admin clears the expired bans on the Web Control Panel.
A few users have requested that expired bans should disappear after a set period of time say 24 hours.

At the moment long domain names are truncated in the 'Top Domain' section of the Dashboard.

For example the domain
'o-o.preferred.iad09g05.v23.lscache5.c.youtube.com' is shown as 'o-o.preferred.iad09g05.v6.lsc'

In this case it is not possible to see the actual domain 'youtube.com' in the list.

Either reduce the white space in this area in order to show more text, or truncate the start of the domain name and use an ellipsis to show it has been truncated.

The domain name is more important to understand what is happening then sub domain name.

In Services > Authentication include a button to run configuration checks on the settings page, or include separate check buttons for each directory server.

When adding a second domain controller to the settings page, you must swap pages to run the configuration checks. When they fail you have to swap again to make any changes.

Alternatively combine the 'control' and 'settings' pages.

On the Dashboard remove the fail over heart beat IP addresses from the 'Per IP Address Statistics'.They don't really belong with the rest of the network devices as they only communicate between themselves, and won't be sending data externally. Also the data volumes are well above what other nodes generate.

They could be relocated to the 'Interface and Host Bandwidth' section, including a separate section for 'Fail Over' similar to how 'SSL VPN' appears here.

Failing that, group them together in their own section.

Link the entries in the 'Top Domains' section on the Dash Board to the reporting engine, so that you can click through to see who has been using the top domains.

For consistency this wants to be the same list of options that you get in the 'Top Domains' report.

The email queue doesn't have the space to show as much information as would be helpful. Half of the reason as to why the email is in the queue is truncated, which for some people, causes annoyance.

Currently, in the Services > Authentication > Groups area, the list must be reordered by means of a checkbox and Move Up / Move Down buttons with a page reload inbetween each button push.

Contrast to the Guardian policies, which are drag and drop, and much easier.

Any chance of getting the newer system moved out to all areas where there are ordered lists? It's painful clicking a dozen times to get a group in the right place at the moment...

Whilst the new GUI handles higher screen resolutions, I find that the default size is too large. It may be because it is (initially) designed for Tablet useage, but for a desktop / high resolution display I miss viewing as much information as possible.

Initial fix is to reduce the text size to 'smaller' (smallest is too small).

Changed description, as some find it too large, others too small - TN

"If it looks the same, it should act the same"

For example Guardian 3 now has the new enabled/disabled sliders but under networking section such as port forwards you have just a enabled/disabled image and no slider.

can any checks be automated?