Clients send content into the network and also receive traffic from the network. They access the network by establishing a TCP connection to their P-7500 system.
Clients are created automatically by the P-7500 system, and are identified by the IP address and TCP port used by the P-7500 system to reach them. The network administrator can view status and statistics on a per-client basis, to help in network monitoring and troubleshooting.
A profile is a set of characteristics that can be distinctly assigned to one or more clients. You can manage a large number of clients efficiently by creating a profile with a specific set of common characteristics and assigning it to all users who share these characteristics. For example, all users in the same department could share a common profile. When a parameter in the profile is changed by the network administrator, this change is made automatically by the P-7500 system to all clients using this profile.
There is one default profile, which must be named default, and it is assigned automatically to each client. The default profile cannot be deleted from the P-7500 system.