Raritan Engineering Command Center CC-SG - Manual (Page 18)

2 C OMMAND C ENTER S ECURE G ATEWAY A DMINISTRATOR G UIDE
Product Features and Benefits
• Seamless Management
CC-SG offers seamless management of Dominion series and Paragon ® management
appliances through Paragon remote User Stations (UST1R/UST2R) – leverage your
embedded base with a CC-SG to draw substantial incremental value:
− Constantly updated to keep up with changing needs.
− Streamlines, provides wider process focus and offers productivity improvements,
organization wide.
− Reduces Total Cost of Ownership (TCO); cost savings from high-availability of
applications (high cost for downtime); front-ends and secures and improves reliability of
high economic value equipment.
− Handles scalability elegantly – multiple data centers (primary and backup), growing
number of locations.
− Provides centralized management, Role-Based Access and Control (RBAC), and
Reporting Capabilities.
• Uncompromising Security
Secure 128-bit encryption (both intranet and Internet); flexibility of access via SSL, access
restriction (by time of day, and/or maximum session duration) as part of user profile in user
management:
− Has the ability to restrict login access to products based on time of day, the ability to
restrict duration of on-line sessions, handle password expiration, and prompt for
password changes. All user operations, including access to port history buffer and access
to logs, will be granted or denied based on user authorization level.
− IP ACL (IP-Filtering) – grants/restricts access by domain name or IP addresses.
− Grants or restricts access on an individual user basis.
− Supports primary and secondary servers.
− Fallback authentication through local database
• Single IP Address Access
Reduces the complexities of managing multiple IP addresses with associated user names and
passwords.
• Broad Support for Third Party Authentication
Leverages existing investment in authentication protocols and allows centralized
authentication and authorization. Streamlines deployment of large multi-unit systems and
centralizes administration and control. Supports LDAP (including AD, iPlanet, eDirectory),
RADIUS, and TACACS+. Support for Active Directory
® authorization and the importing of
user groups.
• Comprehensive Administration Tools
Reduces TCO for managing IT infrastructure; found time can be used for proactive
maintenance:
− Provides powerful multi-tired user and permissions grouping (user/leaf nodes, targets by
topology and by function); CC-SG’s powerful, user-customizable categorization allows
you to easily tailor your solution and security, for example, create a “Location” attribute
and assign all users in a given LDAP or Active Directory group access to servers in that
Location). The possibilities are limitless!
− Provides powerful user-customizable views of all devices connected to CC-SG; supports
automatic and manual device discovery.
− Simplifies administration – device upgrade, reset, diagnosis, ping, auto discover, edit,
delete firmware upgrades, monitoring and access for back up, retrieval and push-down of
configuration to leaf nodes (Dominion Series); simplifies daily maintenance and
firmware management.
• Flexible Reporting
Provides adjustable ways to view active devices, users, ports, and asset inventory; reports
include Audit Trail, Error Log, Firmware Report, Ping Report, View By Groups, and Users in
Groups.