Nokia IPSO 4.0 manual Software Overview, Nokia Network Voyager for Ipso 4.0 Reference Guide

1 About Network Voyager

This chapter provides an overview of Network Voyager, the Web-based interface that you can use to manage Nokia IPSO systems.

Nokia Network Voyager is a Web-based interface that you can use to manage IPSO systems from any authorized location. Network Voyager comes packaged with the IPSO operating system software and is accessed from a client using a browser.

You can also use the command-line interface (CLI) to perform all of the tasks that you can perform when you use Network Voyager, which allows you to choose the interface you are most comfortable with. For information about the CLI, see the CLI Reference Guide.

Software Overview

Nokia firewalls function with the help of several software components:

„Operating System—Nokia IPSO is a UNIX-like operating system based on FreeBSD. IPSO is customized to support Nokia’s enhanced routing capabilities and Check Point’s FireWall-1 firewall functionality, and to "harden" network security. Unnecessary features have been removed to minimize the need for UNIX system administration.

„Ipsilon Routing Daemon (IPSRD)—IPSRD is Nokia’s routing software. The routing policy implemented by IPSRD resides in a database. Network Voyager (see below) configures and maintains the routing software and database.

„Check Point FireWall-1—FireWall-1 consists of two major components: (1) the Firewall module, which runs on the Nokia firewall and implements the security policy, and (2) the Management module, which runs either on the Nokia firewall or on another workstation.

Use the Management Module to define and maintain the security policy.

„Network Voyager—Network Voyager communicates with the routing software to configure interfaces and routing protocols, to manage routing policy for the firewall, and to monitor network traffic and protocol performance. Network Voyager also provides online documentation. Network Voyager itself runs on a remote machine as a client application of the Nokia routing software and is HTML based.

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