How to check if your Windows firewall is enabled, using the netsh command (79224)

Date: 3/2007
Affected NV Version: ALL
OS Version: Windows (except for Windows 2000)
Plugin version: N/A
Application version: N/A

Description:
This will show you how you can check to see if your firewall enabled using the netsh command line utility.

Symptoms:
You want to check the configuration of your firewall, using netsh command line utility.

1. To see if the firewall is enabled, use the following command.

netsh firewall show state

Example

C:\>netsh firewall show state

Firewall status:
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Profile = Domain
Operational mode = Disable
Exception mode = Enable
Multicast/broadcast response mode = Enable
Notification mode = Enable
Group policy version = Windows Firewall
Remote admin mode = Disable

Ports currently open on all network interfaces:
Port Protocol Version Program
-------------------------------------------------------------------
137 UDP IPv4 (null)
139 TCP IPv4 (null)
138 UDP IPv4 (null)
53479 TCP IPv4 (null)
53478 UDP IPv4 (null)
53479 UDP IPv4 (null)
53478 TCP IPv4 (null)
445 TCP IPv4 (null)
20031 TCP IPv4 C:\Program Files\BakBone Software\NetVault\bin\nvpmgr.exe
20031 UDP IPv4 C:\Program Files\BakBone Software\NetVault\bin\nvpmgr.exe

If Operational mode = Enable, then Windows firewall is on
If Operational mode = Disable, then Windows firewall is off

If Exception mode = Enable, then Windows firewall will allow exceptions.
If Exception mode = Disable, then Windows firewall will not allow exceptions. In this mode you will be able to add the exceptions Netvault needs to run.