1. Centralized Management for Barracuda Networks products
Barracuda Control Center
Centralized Management for Barracuda Networks products
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2. Agenda The business need Introduction to Barracuda Control Center
Features and applications
Roadmap
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3. Barracuda Control Center
Centralized management for Barracuda Networks products
Provided as an online service
Hosted in Barracuda Networks data centers
24 X 7 availability
Easy to use
No additional installation
Same look and feel as the product UI
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4. Managing individual appliances is operationally challenging
The business needs
Offices in multiple locations
Growing needs of IT infrastructure
Multiple administrators share the work
Need to standardize organizational policies
Managing individual appliances is operationally challenging
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5. The solution: Centralized management
Administrative access via one central Web user interface
Manage all the products from anywhere
Multiple administrators with different permissions and roles
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6. Barracuda Control Center
The Barracuda Control Center dashboard provides a centralized view of all your Barracuda Network products.
The devices connected to the Barracuda account can be organized in an hierarchical manner based on your organization’s needs. You may choose to organize your devices based on geographical locations or based on the Business units where the devices are located.
The dashboard provides aggregated information from the devices and also informs you about the traffic, subscription and other status
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7. Features Status information of the connected systems Hardware
Subscription
Traffic
Connectivity
Centralized configuration
Exception for devices
Role-based administration
Permissions for different users
Aggregated reporting
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8. Information on appliances
View the operational status of all the appliances
Information on connectivity, traffic, subscription and hardware
Click #1: Connect your appliances to your Barracuda Control Center account
Click #2: All you have to do is just log into the BCC UI
Click #3: To check the status of the devices, to know about subscriptions and do a whole lot more
Administrator
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9. Centralized configuration
Standardize your organization’s policies
Apply same policy to all appliances
Exceptions may be created on a per appliance basis as needed
Click : A change done by the administrator is pushed to the individual devices.
Block social networking sites
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10. Aggregated reporting
Create reports based on data from multiple appliances
Generate report based on user’s allowed groups
Click : The report data is generated on the devices and is collated by the Barracuda Control Center to generate the aggregated report.
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11. Role-based administration
Allows access for multiple types of users
Each user has own login ID and access restrictions
Restrictions are based on
Roles
Appliances
User groups
Available Roles
Administrator : All permissions
Manager: Run reports
Read Only: View configuration
Help Desk: Only create exceptions
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12. Restriction based on devices
Centralized IT group may manage all appliances
Regional administrator may manage only regional devices
IT Group at HQ
Click #1: IT Group from headquarters can manage all the devices
Click #2: The regional IT administrator has access to only the devices in the regional office
Click #3: All operations done by the users via the Barracuda Control Center are logged in an audit log. This provides the administrators to keep a track of who did what and when.
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Audit logs capture changes done by the all users
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Restriction based on user groups
Sales Manager has access to reports for sales people only
LDAP Server
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CEO has access to reports for everyone in the company
Barracuda Web Filters
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14. In summary … Centralized management for Barracuda Network appliances
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Configure multiple appliances
Create aggregate reports
Allow multiple administrators
Restrict administrative privileges
No additional installation required
Available 24 X 7
More features coming soon …
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15. Roadmap Configuration locking Enhanced centralized alerting
Integration with other Barracuda Network products
Barracuda Control Center as a standalone product
Configuration Locking: Centralized administrator can enforce a lock on certain fields so that even if the local administrator can view them, they will not be able to change them.
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