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Amaranten Firewall 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 Amaranten
Firewall 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 Amaranten Firewall provides the
lowest total cost of ownership.
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 Amaranten Firewall
Manager, firewalls may be grouped together and
share common parameters. Therefore, changes affecting multiple firewalls
may be deployed with a minimum of
administrative efforts.
The Amaranten Firewall manager supports a large number of other grouping
possibilities to keep the firewall rule-set as
simple as possible. IP networks, firewall 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 Amaranten Firewalls to one or more log receivers,
which can be either Amaranten Firewall 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 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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