Management Module

The primary goal of the management module is to facilitate the secure management of all devices and hosts within the enterprise SAFE architecture. Logging and reporting information flow from the devices through to the management hosts, while content, configurations, and new software flow to the devices from the management hosts.

Figure B-4. Management Traffic Flow

Key Devices

  • SNMP Management host— provides SNMP management for devices

  • NIDS host— provides alarm aggregation for all NIDS devices in the network

  • Syslog host(s)— aggregates log information for Firewall and NIDS hosts

  • Access Control Server— delivers one-time, two-factor ...

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