Rock VPN - Central Manager / Centralized (Centralised) Management

The Rock VPN Central Manager configures all the Rock VPN products from a central location, simplifying large network rollout and day-to-day management. It offers administrators a centralised view of the Secure VPN and allows the management of up to a thousand VPN devices on multiple networks.

Product Description

Easy and intuitive network management

Many central management tools for firewall and VPN configuration require the user to build rule sets for each device individually. Although this is done from a central point, it requires the administrator to think about each device’s role in the network. The ROCK Central Manager, however, allows the user to define the global security policy through intuitive and easy to use wizards and automatically extracts the configuration for each device from that. The administrator defines re-usable network objects in order to reduce the time spent on configuration to a minimum.

Integrated Certification Authority

The Central Manager’s integrated CA eliminates the inconveniences normally associated with PKI integration in corporate VPN environments. The built-in CA can issue certificates to devices or grant a user’s signing request at the touch of a button. The Central Manager also allows the use of 3 rd party certification authorities.

Benefits

Using the Central Manager, managers of VPNs can concentrate on designing and implementing the desired security policy based on traffic flows, rather than individual device configurations. On-line publication of these policies saves administration time and improves accuracy of the published policy. The integrated CA simplifies the deployment of VPNs devices and roll out of remote users.

Features and Specifications

• Ships with ROCK SVPN software products - Workstation Protector, Server Protector and Gateway Protector
• Easy setup through intuitive wizards
• Manages all ROCK SVPN software and hardware product models
• Fully Java based (requires engine)
• Concurrent management of up to 1000 devices and users
• Easy ‘out-of-the-box’ solution simplifies product rollout
• Multi network interface support for managed devices
• Management of NAT Traversal
• Backup and restore remote Rock VPN Appliance configuration

Policy storage and distribution:

• Policy objects are stored in object repository on the Central Manager
• One-click generation and distribution of policy to all devices
• Management connections to devices secured with IPSec

Flexible User Management:

• Support for multiple user groups
• Fast and efficient addition of new users

Built-in CA:

• One-click certificate issuing
• X.509v3 compliant certificate issue
• Use built-in or 3 rd party CA
• SCEP-based enrolment
• CRL generation
• CRL publication

Centralised Monitoring:

• Up to date Security Association information for each device
• CPU load monitoring on all devices warns of network bottlenecks
• Ability to kill Security Associations

Additional Benefits:

• Selected device settings updated from central location
• Centralised software upgrade capabilities for all V100 appliances
• Remote V100 properties management

Supported Platforms:

• Windows NT 4 (SP 6+)
• Windows 2000 (SP 3+)
• Windows XP

Minimum System Requirements:

• Pentium II 400MHz or better CPU
• 128 MB RAM

Recommended System Requirements (500 devices):

• Pentium 4 1.7GHz or similar CPU
• 512 MB RAM

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