Features, Limitations, and Requirements cisco systems

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.