Cisco Cisco Email Security Appliance C160 Mode D'Emploi

The IronPort M-Series appliance is a special model of the IronPort appliances, 
specifically designed to serve as an external or “off box” spam quarantine for use 
with other IronPort appliances. This chapter discusses network planning, system 
setup, and general use of the IronPort M-Series appliance.

This chapter contains the following sections: 

You can use an IronPort M-Series Security Management appliance to complement 
your IronPort Email Security appliance. The IronPort M-Series Security 
Management appliance is designed to serve as an external or “off box” location to 
monitor corporate policy settings and audit information. It combines hardware, an 
operating system (AsyncOS), and supporting services to centralize and 
consolidate important policy and runtime data, providing administrators and end 
users with a single interface for managing reporting and auditing information for 
the IronPort C-Series and X-Series Email Security appliances. The IronPort 
M-Series appliance ensures top performance from IronPort Email Security