ePrism User Guide - EdgeWave

Centralized Management
Centralized Management
The Centralized Management feature allows you to administer multiple ePrism Email Security
Appliances from a single management console. Centralized Management allows you to perform
many routine administrative tasks across all ePrism systems configured in the same management
group.
Centralized Management is used to monitor and administer multiple ePrism systems, including the
ability to copy configuration items such as mail routes, aliases and mappings, RADIUS and LDAP
settings, and so on, to other systems in the management group.
Note: All management group communications are authenticated and transmitted using
HTTPS.
You can perform the following functions from the Centralized Management console:
• Start and Stop mail services
• Monitor mail queues
• View statistics of incoming and outgoing mail
• Copy configuration settings to other ePrism systems
• Perform backups
Centralized Management and Clustering
Centralized Management is very different from ePrism’s HALO Clustering features.
Centralized Management is intended for managing multiple ePrism systems with different
configurations, while Clustering is used to monitor and manage multiple systems with identical
configurations for redundancy and load balancing purposes.
See “HALO (High Availability and Load Optimization)” on page 203 for more detailed
information on cluster management.
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