About the Data Center Security: Server Advanced components
Data Center Security: Server Advanced
componentsData Center Security: Server Advanced
includes the management server, agents, the Security Virtual Appliance
, and the Unified Management Console
. The agent components provide intrusion prevention and detection on physical or virtual computers, while the Security Virtual Appliance
provides agentless anti-malware protection for VMware guest VMs running on Windows. The management server, Unified Management Console
, and Java console run on Windows operating systems. The agents run on Windows and UNIX operating systems. The Security Virtual Appliance
is a virtual appliance. The Security Virtual Appliance
is deployed into VMWare NSX or vShield using the Unified Management Console
. Data Center Security: Server Advanced
includes the management server, agents, the Security Virtual Appliance
, and the Unified Management Console
. The agent components provide intrusion prevention and detection on physical or virtual computers, while the Security Virtual Appliance
provides agentless anti-malware protection for VMware guest virtual machines running on Windows. The management server, Unified Management Console
, and Java console run on Windows operating systems. The agents run on Windows and UNIX operating systems. The Security Virtual Appliance
is a virtual appliances. The Security Virtual Appliance
is deployed into VMWare NSX using the Unified Management Console
. The management server and the Java console can be installed on one system or in a distributed model. Agents are generally deployed to every supported host to be monitored and protected, including the management server and SQL server database. Remote monitoring can extend file integrity monitoring and log monitoring functionality to systems where no native agent exists. For example, such systems include mainframe zLinux, AS 400, VAX, or VMS systems.
The following diagram displays the
Data Center Security: Server Advanced
environment setup:Component | Description |
|---|---|
Security Virtual Appliance | The Security Virtual Appliance provides
agentless anti-malware security services for VMware guest virtual
machines. The Security Virtual Appliance is deployed as the Datacenter Protection Service from
the vSphere web client, after registering the service with the NSX Manager.Security Virtual Appliance 's
reputation based exoneration capabilities minimizes the convictions of false positives.
For information on deploying and using the Security Virtual Appliance see the Data Center Security: Server Advanced Implementation Guide Integration with VMware NSX |
Data Center Security: Server Advanced agent for behavior control | The Data Center Security: Server Advanced agent for behavior control provides the following capabilities:
See the http://www.symantec.com/docs/DOC8924 for more information on the supported operating systems, and agent features supported on each operating system. |
Management server | The management server is based on Tomcat Application Server software. The management server provides the following capabilities:
The management server supports high availability and scalability. |
Database | The database provides the following capabilities:
|
Predefined Detection and Prevention policies | The predefined Detection and Prevention policies provide the following capabilities:
|
Predefined Anti-malware policies | Security Virtual Appliance provides out-of-the-box anti-malware policies to protect your virtual environment against malware. Security Virtual Appliance provides two types of policies as follows:
|
Unified Management Console | The Unified Management Console lets you register, configure, and manage various features and components in Data Center Security: Server Advanced . |
See the
Symantec™ Data Center Security: Server, Monitoring Edition, & Server Advanced Planning and Deployment Guide
for detailed information on planning a Data Center Security: Server Advanced
deployment in an enterprise environment, and installing the Data Center Security: Server Advanced
components. The Symantec™ Data Center Security: Server, Monitoring Edition, & Server Advanced Planning and Deployment Guide
also provides information on the system requirements for installing the product components.See the http://www.symantec.com/docs/DOC8924 for information on the supported operating systems, and agent features supported on each operating system.