RE: [FW1] Managing a lot of firewalls

[Yim Lee <yimwlee@FW1-NOSPAMyahoo.com>]

I have heard a more realistic number is about 12.  If
more than 12, you might need to start thinking about
using Provider1.

Yim
--- Sumit Chopra <schopra@pacbell.net> wrote:
> 
> A single management module can manage upto a max of
> 50 firewalls, so you
> should be fine.
> 
> -Sumit
> 
> 
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[mailto:owner-fw-1-mailinglist@beethoven.us.checkpoint.com]On
> Behalf Of
> Greg Winkler
> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 12:27 PM
> To: fw-1-mailinglist@beethoven.us.checkpoint.com
> Subject: [FW1] Managing a lot of firewalls
> 
> 
> 
> A suggestion has been made that we move to an
> Internet access model that
> involves firewalls and ISP connection points at many
> of our locations,
> mostly in Europe. Can't give you an exact number but
> I would guess we are
> talking about 30 or so firewalls.
> 
> How would one manage so many? Right now we've got
> only 4 and management is
> fairly simple using and Enterprise license. Can a
> single management station
> manage 30 plus firewalls. I would expect probably
> not. What are the
> options? I've heard of Provider-1, would that allow
> me to "manage" multiple
> management stations such that I would still only
> have one set of network
> objects and rulebase to maintain? Does it work well?
> 
> 
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> Huntsman Corporation
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