Symantec 10521146 - Network Security 7120 Administration Manual page 6

6 Contents
Section 2
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Managing user passphrases ....................................................................... 57
Controlling user access ............................................................................... 59
Planning the deployment ................................................................................... 60
Deploying single nodes ....................................................................................... 61
Deploying a single Network Security software node ............................. 61
Deploying a single 7100 Series appliance node ...................................... 62
Configuring single-node parameters ........................................................ 63
Deploying node clusters ..................................................................................... 64
Deploying software and appliance nodes in a cluster ............................ 65
Monitoring groups within a cluster .......................................................... 66
Initial Configuration
Populating the topology database
About the network topology .............................................................................. 71
About the Devices tab ................................................................................. 72
About topology mapping ............................................................................ 74
Managing the topology tree ............................................................................... 78
Viewing auto-generated objects ................................................................ 79
Viewing node details ................................................................................... 79
Viewing node status .................................................................................... 79
Adding objects for the first time ............................................................... 80
Editing objects .............................................................................................. 81
Deleting objects ............................................................................................ 81
Reverting changes ....................................................................................... 82
Saving changes ............................................................................................. 82
Forcing nodes to synchronize .................................................................... 83
Backing up ..................................................................................................... 83
Adding nodes and objects ................................................................................... 83
About location objects ................................................................................. 83
About nodes and interfaces ........................................................................ 85
About Network Security software nodes ................................................. 86
About 7100 Series appliance nodes .......................................................... 92
About router objects .................................................................................. 101
About Smart Agents .................................................................................. 104
About managed network segments ......................................................... 108
Protection policies
About protection policies ................................................................................. 111
Responding to malicious or suspicious events ..................................... 112
Understanding the protection policy work area ........................................... 112
Using protection policies ................................................................................. 113