Symantec Security 5600 Series, Security 5400 Series,Clientless VPN 4400 Series, Administration Manual

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39 Becoming familiar with the SGMI
Navigating in the SGMI
The following table summarizes the functions provided by the folders within each section:
Table 2-3
Section and folder descriptions
Section name Folder name Description
Monitors Lets you view current and archived information about your security gateway, such as
connections, resource usage, and log messages.
Overall Health Provides a snapshot of the current system condition.
Status Displays information about current connections, as well as
antivirus server status, clientless VPN failed logon attempts, and
hardware accelerator card diagnostics.
Logs Lets you view log event messages and IDS/IPS alerts, including the
ability to filter the view to see specific kinds of events and alerts.
Notifications Lets you set up notifications to alert administrators about security
problems so that they can take action.
Policy Lets you define your corporate security stance, and secure your network by defining traffic
rules and access for remote user. You can also configure the security gateways content security
features.
Firewall Lets you define rules, packet filters, and time periods to control
access to the security gateway.
VPN Lets you configure virtual private network (VPN) tunnels to allow
access from remote IPsec-compliant clients and security gateways.
You can also configure policies to control tunnel negotiations.
Clientless VPN Lets you give external users SSL-secured, controlled access to your
corporate resources, within authentication requirements and
access restrictions that you set.
Antivirus Lets you configure the security gateway’s ability to scan mail, Web,
and FTP traffic for viruses and other mail restrictions.
Antispam Lets you configure the antispam scan engines heuristic detection
capability, create custom blacklists and whitelists, and specify
subject patterns to identify as spam.
IDS/IPS Lets you define IDS/IPS policies and enable blocking and logging
on a signature-specific level
Content Filtering Lets you define settings for use in blocking users from viewing
undesirable Web content and newsgroups.
Client Compliance Lets you set the security standards that must be met by remote
users who connect through the security gateway.
Policy Parameters Lets you define the policy settings that affect the system as a
whole.