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Clavister Security Gateway Manager is a modern, graphically oriented management system with multi-user support that offers centralized control of a large number of firewalls from a user-friendly Microsoft Windows environment. Your Clavister Security Gateway Manager is included at no extra cost in all product models.
All remote management of firewalls, including configuration, monitoring and even complete software upgrades, can be performed from the management tool, and is secured through 128-bit encryption and authentication. Failsafe checks employed by the firewall prevent an erroneous configuration from halting the firewall or locking out the administrator. These design choices help to ensure that Clavister Security Gateway provides the lowest total cost of ownership.
Centralized, secure management of multiple firewalls
All firewall configurations are centrally archived for security reasons. This also provides the possibility to replace a running firewall unit in just a few minutes. Furthermore, revision history is kept for entire firewall configurations,giving the administrator the opportunity to rollback to any prior version since the deployment of the firewall.
Thanks to the unique namespace concept in your Clavister Security Gateway Manager, gateways may be grouped together and share common parameters. Therefore, changes affecting multiple firewalls may be deployed with a minimum of administrative efforts. Clavister Security Gateway supports a large number of other grouping possibilities to keep the gateway's rule-set as simple as possible. IP networks, gateway interfaces and services may be grouped in order to simplify configuration of large and complex networks.
The management software includes tools for graphically monitoring firewall status parameters as well as extensive monitoring of network traffic. The firewall also supports statistics polling using SNMP, Simple Network Management Protocol, which allows for integration with leading SNMP management software such as HP OpenView and IBM Tivoli.
Log data is sent from Clavister Security Gateways to one or more log receivers, which can be either Clavister Security Gateway Logger software or common syslog receivers.Logging is specified per rule in the firewall,and the level of details can vary from simple summaries to detailed packet dumps.
Log data can be analyzed using the advanced log analyzer tool integrated in the Firewall Manager. Furthermore, NetIQ ’s WebTrends for Firewalls product suite and eIQnetworks' FirewallAnalyzer™ is supported in order to generate graphical usage reports and graphs. Log data may also be exported using text format to any third-party application, such as Microsoft Excel or SQL server, for further analysis.
Command line utilities that can perform remote management and log querying are available for Microsoft Windows and a number of Unix platforms.
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