Watchguard Firebox X5000 User's Guide download pdf (Page 7)

Fireware Migration Guide 3

What’s New with WatchGuard System Manager?

• Interface independence

• Signature-based intrusion prevention with stateful signature matching

• Multi-WAN for more flexibility and network connection time

• Dynamic routing of these protocols: BGP, OSPF, RIPv1 & v2

• Quality of Service (QoS) which uses “virtual pipes” to route the traffic to align with your business

requirements

• Active Directory and LDAP integration

• Application Server Load Sharing and enhanced policy management interface for advanced controls

and more granular control of your security policy

Enhancements to WFS appliance software

The WatchGuard System Manager v8.0 includes WFS v7.4 appliance software. This version has two

important features.

• WSM 8.0 uses a Management Server that operates on a Windows server rather than a gateway

Firebox. This allows for much more scalability and flexibility when you set up a large, distributed

network.

• You can now use Remote User VPN with PPTP and Mobile User VPN to a Firebox that gets its

external IP address from an ISP, which uses static DHCP or static PPPoE.

WatchGuard Servers

There are three servers in this release that do Firebox management functions:

• Management server

•Log server

• WebBlocker server

You can configure the servers from a Windows toolbar which you install with the servers. The toolbar

appears in the Windows taskbar at the bottom of your computer monitor. The toolbar is used to start,

stop, and configure each server.

Management Server

WatchGuard pioneered simple, 1*2*3 VPN configuration with the Dynamic VPN Configuration Protocol

(DVCP). A DVCP server controls the VPN tunnels of a distributed enterprise from one, easy to use man-

agement interface. A limit to previous versions of WSM was that you could only use the Firebox as a

DVCP server.

With WSM 8.0, we move the DVCP off the Firebox and on to a computer using the Windows operating

system. This gives increased scalability and flexibility for the network administrator. The management

server has the same functions as the DVCP/CA server from previous releases of WSM. These functions are:

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Watchguard Firebox X5000 User's Guide Page 7