Integrated Logging And Reporting; Monitoring Status; Job Management - Juniper NETWORK AND SECURITY MANAGER 2010.2 - ADMINISTRATION GUIDE REV1 Administration Manual

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Dynamic, route-based VPNs—Provide resilient, always-on access across your network.
Add firewall rules on top of route-based VPNs to control traffic flow.
Policy-based VPNs—Connect devices, remote access service (RAS) users, and control
traffic flow (you can also create policy-based VPNs with L2TP).
Mixed-mode VPNs—Connect route-based VPNs with policy-based VPNs, giving you
flexibility.

Integrated Logging and Reporting

You can use NSM to monitor, log, and report on network activity in real time to help you
understand what is happening on your network:
View traffic log entries generated by network traffic events, configuration log entries
generated by administrative changes, or create custom views to see specific information
in the Log Viewer.
Create detailed reports from traffic log information in the Report Manager.
Inspect suspicious events by correlating log information in the Log Investigator.

Monitoring Status

NSM keeps you up-to-date on the health of your network.
View critical information about your managed devices in the Device Monitor:
Configuration and connection status of your managed devices
Individual device details, such as memory usage and active sessions
Device statistics
View the status of each individual VPN tunnel in the VPN Monitor.
View NSRP status in the NSRP Monitor.
View the status of your IDP Clusters in the IDP Cluster Monitor.
View the health of the NSM system itself, including CPU utilization, memory usage,
and swap status in the Server Monitor.

Job Management

You can view the progress of communication to and from your devices in the Job Manager.
NSM sends commands to managed devices at your request, typically to import, update
or reboot devices, and view configuration and delta configuration summaries. When you
send a command to a device or group of devices, NSM creates a job for that command
and displays information about that job in the Job Manager module.
Job Manager tracks the progress of the command as it travels to the device and back to
the management system. Each job contains:
Name of the command
Date and time the command was sent
Completion status for each device that received the command
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