Central Repository and Database
As a part of the unified management, all components and tools
share a common element database. An element once created is available everywhere in the Management
Center, and updating the element will update all configurations that use it. Component re-use
results in less manual administrative work and fewer human errors.
Central Repository stores all information about the configuration, including security policies, clustering, routing, multi-link and operating system settings. It's possible to take a single backup of the whole system. In case of a hardware failure on one of the security engines, all you need to do is replace the hardware and contact it to management and push the configuration to the engine.
Benefits
- Faster configuration and simple backup of the whole system
- Easy to reconfigure and recover a remote engine
- Several administrators can be simultanous logged in with write access