As of 2026, HFL Broadband schools can sign up to have a new system…RM’s Broadband Portal. Users can log into a web interface and see/manage a variety of tools. Access is managed via SSO.
There are seven modules currently turned on with the Portal:
Dashboard:
This shows a high-level snapshot of what you have in place at your school; your main internet circuit; your backup internet service (if you have one!); confirmation that your connections are up; data confirmation that your internet usage is sitting comfortably within your available bandwidth.
In the top right-hand corner, you will be notified if there are anything relevant RM status notifications impacting your service.
DNS:
Here you can view/edit DNS records for your HFL managed domain/s; you can also download the DNS zone file if you wish. You can currently make changes to your DNS records in SafetyNet but in time, this will all be done via the Broadband Portal and access through SafetyNet will be discontinued.
IP Management:
This allows you to see all the private and public IP addresses that have been assigned to your school.
Firewall:
You can view/edit firewall rules with inbound/outbound access and with the correct permissions we can allow you to create intersite access between your school and another HFL Broadband site. You can currently make changes to your firewall settings in SafetyNet but in time, this will all be done via the Broadband Portal, and access via SafetyNet will be discontinued. The functionality in the Broadband Portal far exceed what schools can do in SafetyNet. The Portal allows you do to the following (but not limited to): creating firewall rules to FQDNs; creating firewalls rules and lock them down to/from specific geographical locations; view real time/historical firewall logs to see what is getting blocked/allowed whilst filtering on specific times and internal IPs etc; you can create block rules now – not just allow rules; you can add port ranges and IP ranges into firewall rulesets.
Network:
You can see all sorts of helpful data such as; router health (CPE temperature/memory usage/CPU load etc); you can run speed tests directly from the router/s (the days of having to plug a laptop directly into the router are now over!); you can reboot the router/s from the portal; you can see what LAN interfaces are live and what IPs are assigned to them; you can create DHCP directly onto the LAN interfaces and manage that.
Monitoring:
How is your primary connection /backup connection performing; bandwidth performance; availability data; any known historical outages; you can check for packet loss.
Settings:
Here you can create access for staff; you can create roles so certain staff groups can only manage/see certain areas (you may want some staff to have ‘read only’ access to the firewall for example)