Техническая Инструкция для Cisco Cisco Security Manager 4.1

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Managing a Cluster of Cisco Security 
Manager 4.1 Servers
First Published: March 2011
Abstract
Cisco Security Manager enables enterprises to manage and scale security operations efficiently and 
accurately. Security Manager integrates a powerful suite of capabilities including policy and object 
management, event management, reporting, and troubleshooting that are essential to maintaining 
security posture in today’s ever changing threat environment. Cisco Security Manager supports a range 
of security solutions, including Cisco ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliances, Cisco IPS 4200 
Series Sensor Appliances, and the Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client. 
A Security Manager server cluster is two or more Security Manager servers used to manage a network. 
Typically, you want to maintain some relationship between the servers. Although there is no systematic 
relationship between the servers in the cluster, Cisco Security Manager 4.1 introduces import/export 
features that you can use to copy shared policies, or devices plus their assigned policies, between 
Security Manager servers. 
Unlike previous Security Manager device import/export features, the new device import/export feature 
includes all of the policies, policy objects, and shared policies assigned to the exported devices. Thus, 
when importing the devices, you are also importing all of the policies, which preserves the work you 
have done to create and assign local and shared policies. Device rediscovery is not needed.
The shared policy import/export feature allows you to export shared policies, whether they are assigned 
to a device or not, and import them into another Security Manager server. Thus, you can designate a 
single Security Manager server as the master policy server, configure the shared policies on that server, 
and export them to your other Security Manager servers. Device assignments for the shared policies are 
not altered by the import, so that newly imported policies are automatically applied to the devices to 
which they are assigned on the server.
Although there is no programmatic relationship among Security Manager servers, these features allow 
you to treat multiple servers as if they were a coordinated cluster managing a single network.