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Advanced Conﬁguration of the VPN Concentrator

The previous sections of this chapter looked at a small part of the Conﬁguration portion of the

VPN Manager. There is much more to the Manager than installing groups, users, or system

identiﬁcation. This section looks at the other aspects of the Conﬁguration portion of the VPN

Manager.

Conﬁguration | System

The functions that fall under the Conﬁguration | System section have to do with conﬁguring

parameters for system-wide functions in the VPN concentrator. The following subcategories

under System let you control the VPN concentrator:

• Conﬁguration | System | Servers

• Conﬁguration | System | Address Management

• Conﬁguration | System | Tunneling Protocols

• Conﬁguration | System | IP Routing

• Conﬁguration | System | Management Protocols

• Conﬁguration | System | Events

• Conﬁguration | System | General

• Conﬁguration | System | Client Update

• Conﬁguration | System | Load Balancing Cisco VPN Clients

• Conﬁguration | User Management

• Conﬁguration | Policy Management

The following sections describe each subcategory in more detail.

Conﬁguration | System | Servers

The Conﬁguration | System | Servers section of the VPN Manager allows you to conﬁgure the

various types of servers that communicate with the concentrator. Those servers include the

following:

• Authentication Servers—Used for user authentication

• Accounting Servers—Used for RADIUS user accounting

• DNS Servers—Domain Name System address lookup functions

• DHCP Servers—Dynamic Host Conﬁguration Protocol to assign IP addresses for client

connections

• Firewall Servers—Firewall enforcement by means of the Zone Labs Integrity Server

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