User guide

Chapter 1: Introducing the Proventia Network Intrusion Prevention System
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Management Features
Overview You can create and deploy security policies, manage alerts, and apply updates for your
appliances either locally or through a central appliance management system.
Proventia Network IPS offers you the following tools for managing appliances:
● Proventia Configuration Menu
● Proventia Manager
● SiteProtector
Proventia
Configuration Menu
The Proventia Configuration Menu is the local configuration interface you use to
configure your appliance settings.
Proventia Manager
Proventia Manager offers a browser-based graphical user interface (GUI) for local, single
appliance management. You can use Proventia Manager to manage the following
functions:
● monitoring appliance’s status
● configuring operation modes
● configuring firewall settings
● managing appliance settings and activities
● reviewing alert details
● configuring high availability
● managing security policies with protection domains.
SiteProtector
SiteProtector is the ISS central management console. With SiteProtector, you can manage
components and appliances, monitor events, and schedule reports. By default, your
appliance is set up to be managed through Proventia Manager. If you are managing a
group of appliances along with other sensors, you may prefer the centralized
management capabilities that SiteProtector provides.
When you register your appliance with SiteProtector, SiteProtector controls the following
management functions of the appliance:
● Firewall settings
● Intrusion prevention settings
● Alert events
● Appliance and security content updates
After you register the appliance with SiteProtector, you can view these functions in
Proventia Manager but you can change them only from SiteProtector.
Reference: For instructions on managing the appliance through SiteProtector, see the
SiteProtector user documentation at
http://www.iss.net/support/documentation/ or
the SiteProtector Help.