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Title: Cisco Secure Firewall Services Module (FWSM) (Networking Technology: Security)
ISBN: 1587053535
Author:
Ray Blair
Arvind Durai
Publicate Date: 2008-09-08
Publish: 2008-09-08
List Price: $65.00
Average Customer Rating: 3.5
Format: Paperback
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1: Okay, for a newbie
This book is a high-level guide for getting started. It isn't very deep in technical instructions or guidance. It provides a framework for getting started and working with the Firewall Services Module. Unfortunately, there isn't much printed materials available for purchase. It is satisfactory/sufficient for getting started. Additional research may be required for troubleshooting and for further explanation.
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2: extensive functionality
This book is effectively the user's manual for Cisco's FWSM. I don't know if the module comes with other documentation, but this text is probably what you should use for an indepth explanation of the product.
Cisco has put a fair amount of functionality into FWSM. Using and controlling this functionality can be done via the network. Naturally, the remote access is mediated by a standard username and password combination. This can be compared with local configured user data stored in the FWSM. Or, in an interesting feature, with user data at an external server. The latter feature reflects a possible data centre usage, where you have several FWSMs deployed, and you want to centralise sysadmin data in one server.
Another key feature is the failover mechanism. Where the firewall has 2 units. These can be set in active/standby or active/active modes. There are 2 FWSM modules, that jointly offer a physical redundancy. The book shows that synchronising these peer modules is straightforward. Obviously this costs more, but the improved reliability should be attractive or even necessary to some data centre sysadmins.
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