Installation guide

Preface
This preface provides a brief introduction to the product, discusses the information in this
document, and explains how this document is organized. It also provides information such
as, the supporting documents for this guide and how to contact McAfee Technical Support.
Introducing McAfee Network Security Platform
McAfee
®
Network Security Platform [formerly McAfee
®
IntruShield
®
] delivers the most
comprehensive, accurate, and scalable Network Access Control (NAC), network Intrusion
Prevention System (IPS) and Network Threat Behavior Analysis (NTBA) for mission-critical
enterprise, carrier, and service provider networks, while providing unmatched protection
against spyware and known, zero-day, and encrypted attacks.
McAfee Network Threat Behavior Analysis Appliance provides the capability of monitoring
network traffic by analyzing NetFlow information flowing through the network in real time,
thus complementing the NAC and IPS capabilities in a scenario in which McAfee Network
Security Sensor, NAC Sensor, and NTBA Appliance are installed and managed through a
single Manager.
About the Guide
This special topics guide helps you to deploy McAfee Network Security Sensor (Sensor)s
as failover pairs. The guide provides detailed sections on determining optimal Sensor
location, configuring Sensor ports, defining failover pairs, cabling and verifying the failover
connection.
Conventions used in this guide
This document uses the following typographical conventions:
Convention Example
Terms that identify fields, buttons, tabs,
options, selections, and commands on the
User Interface (UI) are shown in
Arial Narrow
bold font.
The
Service field on the Properties tab specifies the
name of the requested service.
Menu or action group selections are
indicated using a right angle bracket.
Select My Company > Admin Domain > Summary.
Procedures are presented as a series of
numbered steps.
1. On the Configuration tab, click Backup.
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