Brocade Ssl-Vpn Client Bundler; Overview; Supported Operating Systems; Client Bundles - Brocade Communications Systems 5600 Reference Manual

Brocade SSL-VPN Client Bundler

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Overview......................................................................................................................... 39

● Administration of the client bundle.................................................................................. 40
● SSL-VPN client connection............................................................................................. 46
Overview
Brocade Secure Sockets Layer-Virtual Private Network (SSL-VPN) Client Bundler enables the Brocade
vRouter to generate image bundles that facilitate the setup of SSL-VPN client connections. Bundles
include the up-to-date SSL-VPN client configuration that is required to connect to the server, including
the required Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificate authority (CA) certificate that is used by the
server.

Supported operating systems

Brocade SSL-VPN Client Bundler supports the following operating systems as SSL-VPN clients:
• Windows: Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8
• Mac OS X: Supported by OpenVPN frontends that support generic OpenVPN configuration files
• Linux: Network Manager applets and OpenVPN CLI

Client bundles

All generated SSL-VPN client bundles are user independent. The bundles hold only SSL-VPN server
instance-specific information. A new SSL-VPN client bundle is generated automatically whenever the
SSL-VPN server configuration is changed and requires a new SSL-VPN client configuration. No client
certificates for authentication are used at this stage—the authentication token username and password
are used for authentication against the local service user database for the Brocade vRouter or against a
cooperating directory server (for example, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)).
Service-User web portal client bundle
SSL-VPN end users can obtain the generated bundles through the Service-User Web Portal of the
Brocade vRouter after the bundles have been configured. See
For the Service-User Web Portal, the same credentials are required for authentication. The Brocade
vRouter administrator can obtain the bundles directly from the Vyatta file-system and distribute the
bundles to the end users individually.
Windows client bundle
The SSL-VPN client bundle for Windows operating system includes the SSL-VPN client software and
the dedicated SSL-VPN connection.
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