Multiple-Device Management
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Prime
Network Services Controller provides central management of installed VMs (edge
routers, edge firewalls, compute firewalls, and load balancers) and Nexus
1000V.
Note
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Citrix NetScaler VPX, CSR 1000V and ASA 1000V are supported in PNSC release
3.4.1d or earlier. Starting with Cisco PNSC release 3.4.2a, only Cisco VSG is
supported.
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Simplifies
provisioning and troubleshooting in a scaled-out data center.
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Security
Profiles
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A security
profile represents the
VSG
security policy configuration in a profile (template).
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Simplifies
provisioning, reduces administrative errors during security policy changes,
reduces audit complexities, and helps enable a highly scaled-out data center
environment.
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Stateless
Device Provisioning
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The
management agents in
VSG
are stateless, receiving information from
.
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Security
Policy Management
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Security
policies are authored, edited, and provisioned centrally.
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Context-Aware Security Policies
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obtains virtual machine contexts from VMware vCenter.
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Allows a
security administrator to institute highly specific policy controls across the
entire virtual infrastructure.
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Support
virtual services for DFA environments
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Cisco
Prime NSC obtains tenant information and allows virtual services to be added to
DFA virtual overlay networks.
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Dynamic
Security Policy and Zone Provisioning
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interacts with the
Nexus 1000V
VSM
to bind the security profile to the corresponding
Nexus 1000V
port profile. When virtual machines are dynamically instantiated by server
administrators and appropriate port profiles applied, their association with
trust zones is also established.
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Helps
enable security profiles to stay aligned with rapid changes in the virtual data
center.
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Multi-Tenant (Scale-Out) Management
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is designed to manage
VSG
security policies in a dense multi-tenant environment so
that administrators can rapidly add and delete tenants and update
tenant-specific configurations and security policies.
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Reduces
administrative errors, helps ensure segregation of duties in administrative
teams, and simplifies audit procedures.
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Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
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RBAC
simplifies operational tasks across different types of administrators, while
allowing subject-matter experts to continue with their normal procedures.
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Reduces administrative errors.
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Enables detailed control of user privileges.
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Simplifies auditing requirements.
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XML-Based
API
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XML API allows external system management and orchestration tools to
programmatically provision
VSG
.
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