All Cisco-Network Study Notes: Features, Limitations, and Requirements

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.

So far, we accept performed around all administering on the PIX firewall

through the command-line interface, or CLI. In accession to the CLI for configuration

and monitoring, the PIX firewall additionally supports a graphical user interface

(GUI). Application PIX Device Manager (PDM), an ambassador can use a Web

browser to install, configure, and advance the PIX firewall.

PDM is a Java-based GUI acclimated to administer the Cisco PIX firewall. PDM is a

software angel that runs from beam anamnesis on the PIX firewall, enabling

administrative admission via a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encrypted HTTPS session.

PDM replaces PIX Firewall Manager (PFM) software, which was accessible in PIX

software adaptation 5.3(x) and some beforehand versions. PDM allows firewall administrators

to assignment from a array of accustomed workstations configured with a

compliant browser and includes about all PIX CLI functionality. For example,

using PDM, administrators can add, modify, and annul firewall aphorism sets, configure

network abode adaptation (NAT), or set up a VPN.

In accession to altering PIX configurations, PDM facilitates administrative

monitoring of the PIX firewall through able blueprint and table displays for

near-real-time acumen into PIX performance.

In this chapter, you will apprentice how to install and accredit PDM, specifically

version 2.1.You will again apprentice how to use PDM’s GUI to configure and

monitor the PIX firewall.

NOTE

PDM is acclimated for administering of a distinct firewall. Cisco Secure

Policy Manager (CSPM) is a Cisco artefact that supports centralized

management of assorted Cisco aegis devices, including firewalls,

VPNs, and IDS sensors. A altercation of CSPM is above the scope

of this book. You can get added advice about the software at