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

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Assets field descriptions
Security Gateway Network Entity Properties—Description tab
Optionally, provides an extended description. This information is useful to help track changes or it can
be used as criteria for searches.
The maximum length is 20,000 alphanumeric characters.
VPN Security Entity Properties—General tab
You create VPN security network entities to serve as the endpoints for VPN tunnels between security
gateways and Symantec Client VPN users.
Associated tasks
The task that you can perform with this tab is:
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“Defining an entity and security gateway pair with a VPN security entity” on page 167
Phase 1 ID When IKE is enabled, displays the Phase 1 ID for tunnel negotiation.
The maximum length of the Phase 1 ID is 200 characters.
Providing a Phase 1 ID is optional. If you leave the phase 1 ID blank, which is
the default, the IP address is used for tunnel negotiations.
Certificates When IKE is enabled and your address type is an IP address or Domain
name, selecting this option indicates that Entrust certificates are used for
authentication.
This option is unchecked by default.
Shared secret When IKE is enabled and your address type is an IP address or Domain
name, selecting this option indicates that a shared secret is used for tunnel
negotiations.
This option is selected by default.
When selected, you must provide a shared secret.
The shared secret must be between 20 and 63 printable characters. Do not
use braces ({}). The shared secret is encrypted and appears as a string of
asterisks (*).
The shared secret is only defined on the remote security gateway, not on the
local security gateway.
Reveal
/Hide If you type a shared secret, by default it appears as a series of asterisks. To
display it, click Reveal.
When you click Reveal, the button changes to a Hide button.
If a value is visible in the Shared secret text box, to hide it, click Hide.
Table D-111 VPN Security Entity Properties—General tab
Field Description
Entity name A unique name for the VPN security entity.
The maximum length is 256 characters.
Allowed characters are a-z, A-Z, numerals, periods (.), dashes (-), and underscores (_).
Do not include spaces in the name. The characters @,!,#,$,%,
^
,&,*,<,> and other reserved
characters are also invalid.
Table D-110
Security Gateway Network Entity Properties—Security Gateway tab (Continued)
Field Description