NetScreen-Global
Product at a Glance
Central security management for up to 1000 devices
Secure configuration
Monitoring
Reporting
Product Overview
NetScreen's Global Manager facilitates easy centralized management of NetScreen's integrated Internet
security appliances. Network managers at enterprises and service providers can control security for
complex, multi-site networks from one location. This essential management application offers concurrent
centralized configuration, status monitoring of up to 1,000 devices, graphical reporting of network
activities and policy administration for all NetScreen-5, 10 and 100 appliances. It is a cost-effective
tool that enhances productivity and network security saving both time and money.
NetScreen Global Manager simplifies Internet security for enterprise customers with multiple sites
including telecommuters and branch offices and service providers who offer a managed security service.
It features an intuitive graphical user interface with point and click programming ease. Global Manager
is part of the NetScreen suite of integrated security products that offers high performance and ease of
use for a variety of high traffic environments.
Centralized Management
NetScreen Global Manager provides simple Internet security management for large networks. Scalable up to
1000 appliances, it offers continued ease of management as your organization's needs grow. With
centralized configuration and installation of additional NetScreen devices, you can ensure consistent
device configurations reducing the cost of rollouts.
Global Manager will group appliances by location, division or customer for robust management of diverse
or multi-client networks. From a single location, managers can check the status of multiple NetScreen
appliances, monitor performance, troubleshoot existing configurations, or add remote sites to the
network. All activities are conducted via VPN tunnels for the highest level of security.
Ease of Use
NetScreen Global Manager runs on Windows NT for easy installation on a desktop or server. Its point and
click user interface is simple for even novice users, reducing ramp-up time. The program simplifies
routine management tasks by using 'config' files as scripts. These features provide cost savings through
significant reductions in management time and offer maximum efficiency in security network management.
Graphical Reporting
With push button ease, NetScreen Global Manager provides a variety of reports to maintain the highest
level of network performance. By monitoring activity and continuous troubleshooting, Global Manager can
facilitate planning for the network's optimal configuration. And you can do it from one location! Global
Manager generates graphical reports summarizing network activity, resource utilization and event logs
which allows you to analyze usage and performance trends.
Scalability
Like all NetScreen products, NetScreen Global Manager was designed to scale with the growth of your
network security architecture. To ease administration and implementation, the software can be licensed
to manage 10, 25 and up to 1000 devices. Global Manager works with all NetScreen integrated Internet
security appliances, including NetScreen-5, 10 and 100, so you can deploy the proper device for the
required bandwidth and performance.
The NetScreen Appliance Product Family
NetScreen is a leading developer of integrated Internet security appliances for e-business sites,
broadband service providers, and high traffic enterprise networks. NetScreen's purpose-built ASIC-based
hardware technology integrates powerful firewall, VPN, and traffic shaping functionality into a single
appliance. NetScreen products offer customers record-breaking wire-speed performance, manageability and
ease-of-use in one comprehensive solution.
The NetScreen-100 integrates firewall, VPN and traffic management functionality for e-business sites,
enterprise networks, and service providers at 100 Mbps.
The NetScreen-10 provides affordable full-featured security for medium- size enterprises, branch offices
or departments within the enterprise Intranet at 10 Mbps.
The NetScreen-5 delivers fast, secure, cost-effective Internet connections to remote offices and
telecommuters. It supports up to 10 users at broadband data rates at 10 Mbps.
Applications
Enterprise
Central management of remote offices or telecommuters: Extending intranets out to remote offices and
telecommuters is easy. Global Manager allows the network manager to securely configure and monitor all
the security appliances. Reduce management costs at remote site and ease telecommuters help desk
requests.
ASPs and ISPs
Central management of security appliances on the customer's premise. Allows managed firewall and managed
VPN services Creates policies, saves configurations, applies configuration scripts for multiple
deployments.
Specifications:
Options: Licenses available for 10, 25 or up to 1000 appliances
Prerequisites: Works with NetScreen-100, NetScreen-10 and NetScreen-5 (requires NetScreen OS
software version 1.6 or later)
System Requirements: Windows NT 4.0 service pack 3, 4, or 5: Server or Workstation, Pentium II,
64 Mbytes RAM, 5 Mbytes of disk space per device managed, CD-ROM
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