Juniper NETWORK AND SECURITY MANAGER 2010.4 - CONFIGURING INTRUSION DETECTION PREVENTION DEVICES GUIDE REV 01, Manual

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CHAPTER 1
Getting Started
This version of NSMXpress Series II comes preconfigured as a regional server or central
manager.
This chapter contains the following sections:
•
About NSMXpress Series II on page 3
• Hardware Installation on page 4
• Initial Setup Configuration on page 8
About NSMXpress Series II
NSMXpress Series II is an appliance version of Network and Security Manager (NSM).
NSMXpress Series II simplifies the complexity of network administration by providing
single, integrated management interfaces that control device parameters.
This robust hardware management system installs in minutes with full high availability
(HA) support, making it easy to scale and deploy. Enterprise customers with limited
resources can benefit significantly from NSMXpress Series II because it eliminates the
need to have dedicated resources for maintaining a network and security management
solution.
NSMXpress Series II make it easy for administrators to control device configuration,
network settings, and security policy settings for multiple families of Juniper Networks
devices including:
•
IDP Series Intrusion Detection and Prevention Appliances and Firewall and VPN devices
running ScreenOS.
• Devices running Junos OS, such as J Series Services Routers, SRX Series Services
Gateways, EX Series Ethernet Switches, M Series Multiservice Edge Routers, and MX
Series Ethernet Services routers.
•
SA Series SSL VPN Appliances
• IC Series Unified Access Control Appliances
For a complete list of supported device families and platforms, see the Network and
Security Manager Administration Guide .
Up to 10 administrators can log into NSMXpress Series II concurrently.
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