Tips for working from home

What are the best practices for working remotely?

Possible solutions:

Safely and reliably connect to your target systems with iSYSTEM tools.

Refer to the article Working from Home with iSYSTEM tools.

All firewalls must have exclusions set.

Set exclusions for firewalls e.g. CISCO Hardware firewall, SW Firewalls e.g. McAfee Total Protection, Symantec Endpoint Protection.

VPN (Virtual Private Network) connection must be disabled. 

Cisco ASA. 

If a company network is protected with Cisco ASA, which means that by default all traffic, including local and winIDEA instances traffic, goes via ASA:

• Put an exclusion to open used ports.
• Configure ASA in a way that local traffic will not be handled by ASA.

Disconnect from BlueBox while setting up your workspace.

If you experience a slow responsiveness of winIDEA caused by TCP/IP latency while setting up breakpoints or trace triggers in your workspace, consider temporarily disconnecting from the BlueBox. After finishing your setup, reconnect to the BlueBox by using Load Symbols Only.

1. Go offline by Tools / Disconnect from Debugger in winIDEA.

2. Setup your workspace (i.e., set breakpoints or trace triggers).

3. Reconnect to the BlueBox by selecting Debug / Load Symbols Only.