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Security Manager Fundamentals
Course Code: JPSMF | Duration: 2 days
This two-day course discusses the basic operations of Security Manager. Key topics include server and domain administration, device configuration, template creation and management, policy creation and management, logging, and report generation. Through demonstrations and hands-on labs, students gain experience in configuring, testing, and troubleshooting features of Security Manager.
Course Objectives
After successfully completing this course, you should be able to:
- Explain Security Manager concepts and terminology.
- Set up and administer Security Manager servers.
- Configure domains and administrators.
- Add devices using modeling and importing.
- Work with objects and templates.
- Configure policies.
- Perform routine device management tasks.
- Work with logs and reports.
- Generate statistical reports using the Statistical Report Server.
- Configure VPNs with the VPN Manager tool.
Topics Covered
Chapter One: Course Introduction
Chapter Two: Security Manager Concepts
- The Role of Security Manager
- Architecture and Communication
Chapter Three: Server Administration
- Security Manager Processes and Directory Structure
- High Availability
- Installation Overview—Security Manager
- Installation Overview—NSMXpress
Chapter Four: Domains and Administrators
- Domains and Subdomains
- Role-Based Administration
- Configuration
- Lab 1: Creating Domains and Administrators
Chapter Five: Adding Devices
- Scenarios and Methods
- Device Exists
- Device Does Not Yet Exist
- VSYS, Cluster, Extranet, Group
- Add Device Wizard
- Lab 2: Modeling and Importing Devices
Chapter Six: Abstraction—Objects and Templates
- Objects
- Templates
- Lab 3: Abstractions
Chapter Seven: Abstraction—Policies
- What Is a Policy?
- Creating New Policies
- Merging Policies
- Lab 4: Policies
Chapter Eight: Managing Devices
- Directives
- Configuration Management
- Device Management
- Lab 5: Device Management
Chapter Nine: Logging and Reporting
- Logging
- Reporting
- Action Manager
- Lab 6: Logging and Reporting
Chapter Ten: Central Manager
- Central Manager
Chapter Eleven: Virtual Private Networks
- Concepts and Terminology
- Configuring VPNs
Who should attend
Network engineers, support personnel, reseller support, and others responsible for implementing Juniper security products utilising the advanced features covered in this class.
Pre-requisites
This course assumes that students have basic networking knowledge and experience in the following areas:
- Ethernet
- TCP/IP
- Routing