Features, Limitations, and Requirements
PDM facilitates about all authoritative functionality accessible in the PIX firewall
CLI.This includes the adeptness to adapt access,AAA, and clarify rules on the
firewall as able-bodied as apparatus and ascendancy NAT. PDM additionally gives firewall
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administrators diminutive ascendancy of authoritative functionality such as logging,
IDS configuration, and user annual aliment while accouterment acumen into
current achievement through the abundant PDM graphical ecology functionality.
A abundance of achievement metrics and real-time statistics can calmly be generated
and beheld application PDM.
PDM includes able wizards such as the Bureaucracy Wizard and the VPN
Wizard. Both accoutrement adviser firewall administrators through the generally circuitous configuration
of avant-garde appearance such as auto-update functionality and DHCP
server bureaucracy or site-to-site and software applicant VPN configuration. PIX Device
Manager 2.1 additionally supports article grouping, bidirectional NAT, LAN failover,
several fixup configurations,Turbo ACLs, and command authorization. For information
regarding these and abounding added accurate appearance in the PDM interface,
refer to the PDM 2.1 Release Notes at www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/
product/iaabu/pix/pdm/v_21/pdmrn21/pdmrn21.htm.
Cisco created PDM application Java applets anchored in the PDM angel stored
on the PIX firewall.These active applets are downloaded anon from PIX flash
memory to facilitate PIX administering chargeless of bulky client-side software.
Therefore, no appropriate applicant software added than a adjustable Web browser is
required for the PDM client. However, there are several prerequisites for PDM to
run successfully.These hardware, software, and client-side requirements for PDM
are declared in the afterward sections.