Chapter 2 Inline Deployment Walkthrough - McAfee M-1250 - Network Security Platform Manual

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Inline deployment walkthrough
Deploying your Sensor inline consists of the following steps:
1 Determine the optimal high availability strategy for the Sensor. This indicates how you
would like the Sensor to behave when it fails (i.e., fail-open, fail-closed, or support a
failover/high-availability configuration).
2 Physically install the Sensor on your network, and cable the Sensor for the
deployment mode of your choice. For example, cable one Sensor standalone (to fail-
open, if applicable, or configure two Sensors as part of a failover pair).
3 Configure the Sensor monitoring ports.
4 Configure one or more policies for the inline ports.
5 Understand how blocking works, and configure blocking.
Note: You must use McAfee
most aspects of your Sensor(s), including port configuration, pairing two Sensors for
failover operation, and configuring and applying policies to detect and drop
malicious traffic.
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Network Security Manager (Manager) to configure
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