STORMSHIELD MANAGEMENT CENTER

If you have installed the Stormshield Management Center centralized administration server, this panel will allow you to install the connecting package in order to connect your firewall to the SMC server.

IMPORTANT
If you have logged on via the web administration interface to a firewall connected to an SMC server, "Managed by SMC" will be displayed in the upper panel. By default, the account used only has read-only access privileges.
You are strongly advised against directly modifying the configuration of a firewall administered by an SMC server, except in an emergency (SMC server uncontactable, for example).
This is because any changes made directly to the configuration via the web administration interface on a firewall connected to an SMC server may be overwritten when a new configuration is sent from the SMC server.
For more information on implementing SMC, refer to the SMC installation guide and the SMC administration guide.

Connecting the firewall to the SMC server

Select the connecting package

Choose the SMC connecting package from the centralized administration server.

Buttons

Install the package: When a connecting package has been selected, this button will download and install it on the firewall.

Connection settings

Once the package has been installed, information regarding the connection to the server will then be displayed (IPv4/IPv6 address of the server, connection validity, verification frequency for this connection, timeout before the server's response, timeout before reconnection).

NOTE
For more information on Stormshield Management Center centralized administration, refer to the SMC installation guide and SMC administration guide.

TPM

When the firewall is equipped with a TPM, this section makes it possible to protect the private key in the certificate that is used for communications with the SMC server. Click on Protect the SMC agent to enable this protection.

If the firewall is already connected to an SMC server during the initialization of the TPM, the private key of the certificate that is used for communications with the SMC server will be automatically protected.

For more information on the TPM, see the section Trusted Platform Module.