About Central Management

The Central Management is feature is used to manage the two HA nodes as a single device. This allows configuration changes to take place on the parent unit and be automatically synchronized with the child unit.

The Central Management automatically synchronizes configuration information between the parent and child members every five minutes. Administrators can also manually trigger synchronization by clicking the “Synchronize Now” button on the title bar of the IWSVA Web console Summary page accessed through the parent node.

IWSVA supports two synchronization mechanisms:

Users cannot perform a manual switchover if the configurations on the two nodes are not synchronized. If the configurations are not synchronized during a switchover attempt, IWSVA displays a warning message instructing you to manually synchronize the two members first.

For automatic failovers, the switchover happens immediately without a forced synchronization, and any configuration changes made since the last completed synchronization are lost.

Centrally Managed and Non-centrally Managed Features

Some features may be managed centrally, while others require administrators to log into the Web console of the parent or child node.

Cluster-level Settings Available through the Parent Node

Instance-level Settings Available through the Parent or Child Node

Enable/disable HTTP(S)/FTP traffic (on Summary page)

Summary

  • System Dashboard /Virus/Malware/URL/Spyware/ Security Risk Report

All HTTP(s) policies and settings (under HTTP(S) section)

  • Includes HTTPS certifications

Reports (features and data)

  • Real-time reports

  • Scheduled reports data

All FTP policies and settings (under FTP section)

Logs (features and data)

  • Log query

  • Log deletion

Report Settings

  • Scheduled Report Settings

  • Report Templates

  • Configuration

Updates (manual update)

Log Settings

  • Syslog Configuration

  • Log Settings

Test database connection feature (under Administration > IWSVA Configuration > Database Connection)

Update Settings

  • Scheduled Update Settings

  • Connection Settings

Interface Configuration for data port and management port

  • Hostname

  • IP address and net mask

  • Port for data interface or management interface

Notification settings

  • Notification page

  • Threshold Alert Settings on Summary page

  • SMTP settings

  • SNMP settings under Administration > Network Configuration > SNMP Settings

TMCM Registration

Policy deployment settings (under Administration > Policy Deployment

DCS Registration

Quarantine Management (under Administration > Quarantine Management)

System patch

System Time

Update OS

Network Settings (Except Hostname, IP, net mask, and port)

  • Enable Ping for each interface

  • DNS

  • Default Gateway

  • Static Routes

  • Note: DHCP is removed in HA

Support

Web Console settings (under Administration > Network Configuration > Web Console)

 

Remote CLI settings (under Administration > Network Configuration > Remote CLI)

 

User accounts (under Administration)

 

Configuration backup/restore

 

Product License