Juniper NETWORK AND SECURITY MANAGER NSMXPRESS - REV1 Manuals

Network and Security Manager NSMXpress Quick Start November 17, 2010 Revision 1 NSMXpress is an appliance version of Network and Security Manager (NSM). NSMXpress simplifies the complexity of network administration by providing a single, integrated management interface that controls device parameters. This robust hardware management system installs in minutes with full high availability (HA) support, making it easy to scale and deploy. Enterprise customers with limited resources can benefit significantly from NSMXpress because it eliminates the need to have dedicated resources for maintaining a network and security management solution. NSMXpress makes it easy for administrators to control device configuration, network settings, and security policy settings for multiple families of Juniper devices including: • IDP Series Intrusion Detection and Prevention Appliances and Firewall and VPN devices running ScreenOS • Devices running Junos OS, such as J Series Services Routers, SRX Series Services Gateways, EX Series Ethernet Switches, M Series Multiservice Edge Routers, and MX Series Ethernet Services routers • SA Series SSL VPN Appliances • IC Series Unified Access Control Appliances For a complete list of supported device families and platforms, see the Network and Security Manager Administration Guide. Up to 10 administrators can log into NSMXpress concurrently. This quick start explains the following steps for installing and configuring NSMXpress and for configuring NSM. 1. Install the NSMXpress appliance hardware. 2. Set up the NSMXpress appliance using the serial port. 1 Copyright © 2010, Juniper Networks, Inc.