Central Management

For the topic of central management we have identified three scenarios that best meet the major requirements of our customers.

Multiple proxy servers in a cluster system

Our appliance solutions support the operation in a cluster mode out of the box. Two or more machines are interconnected while using an easy management interface. All interconnected machines are accessible via one single IP address (service IP), and all machines in a cluster are active/active, so there is no need for an additional load balancer. High-availability as well as load-balancing is automatic.

In this mode, there is just one single proxy configuration that applies to all machines, which means that Secure Web operates with a single configuration instance. Central management in this scenario is interpreted as a feature that automatically applies any configuration changes to all members of the cluster.

Since any change to the configuration immediately applies to all nodes in the cluster, the administrator needs to manage just one single central configuration.

Distributed proxy instances

The implementation of Secure Web allows to connect distributed proxy instances (e.g. in different geographical locations) to a central configuration system. Similarly to the cluster mode, the proxy instances receive the identical configuration, i.e. all instances are operated with the same configuration information.

Also in this mode, all connected instances receive the configuration changes immediately. Furthermore, particular parts of the configuration can be customized for some parts, or for all of the instances if some locations should have different needs (example: the routing and cascading settings might be different when using local Internet breakouts in the geographically distributed locations).

Independent proxy instances

In the future, we will also supply the third stage of central management, in case when the web interface visualizes different proxy instances that are working 100% independently from each other but can be managed from one single point (web interface).