Managing UserGate Next-Generation Firewalls (Description)

The process of centralized UserGate NGFW management can be divided into the following 4 steps:

  1. Create a managed realm. See the Creating Managed Realms section.

  2. Create one or more templates, each describing a distinct part of the NGFW settings. For more details, see the section Device Templates.

  3. Combine the relevant templates into a template group in the required order to obtain the correct final manged device configuration. For more details, see the Template Groups section.

  4. Add a managed device (NGFW) and apply the template group to it. For more details, see the Placing UserGate Devices under UGMC Management section.

If necessary, the template-based settings can be changed so that the changes are applied to all NGFWs to which these templates are applicable.

UGMC allows you to create and manage configuration and high availability clusters. For a detailed discussion of cluster management, see the UserGate NGFW Clustering Using UGMC section.