Chapter 9 Central Management - EdgeWave iPrism Web Security Administration Manual

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iPrism's central management features let you manage a large set of iPrism systems using a single
configuration manager. The system works by letting you designate a single master system and one
or more slave systems. Any configuration changes made to the master system are automatically
copied by the slaves.
Before You Begin
Prior to setting the Configuration Sharing properties, each iPrism (master and slaves) should be
installed using the Installation Wizard, and the networking parameters and the minimum
configurations set. Once that is done, decide which systems should be slaves and which system will
be the master. There are no specific criteria for choosing the master; however, you must observe the
following guidelines:
• There should be only one master system designated at any given time.
• Other systems need to be set as slaves if they want to participate in the configuration sharing. If
you do not want them to participate in the shared arrangement, you must designate them as
standalone systems.
• All communications are implemented over the HTTP protocol. This means that master and slave
iPrisms should be able to contact themselves with HTTP in both directions. This may be done
using direct connections or an HTTP proxy.
Note: This may impact your IP filtering configuration if you have a firewall
between the master and the slave systems.
• All communications are encrypted so as not to expose your configuration to network sniffing.
Note: The master iPrism will never try to modify the networking configuration of
a slave (IP addresses and mask, routes, interface settings) because these are
unique and/or system-dependent.

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