GB Commander 2.0 offers network administrators a centralized management and reporting system for multiple GTA unified threat management firewalls. This central management system allows IT managers to easily determine firewall status, active connections, bandwidth, CPU and memory usage, and alarms from a single screen. Administrators can easily perform firewall policy management as well as acknowledge and clear alarms for single firewalls or groups of firewalls, thereby eliminating the need to log onto each firewall individually.

Remote firewall administration is simplified with GB-OS updates and firewall policy management when using the GB Commander 2.0 interface. GB Commander 2.0's centralized management and reporting system provides automated GB-OS updates to activate new firewall features and to keep all distributed firewalls running the same version of GB-OS. Security policies can be revised and distributed using GB Commander 2.0's firewall policy management system.

GB Commander 2.0, which includes GTA Reporting Suite 2.0, can generate over 100 reports from firewall log data in real time to provide comprehensive, easy-to-understand network trend analysis.

Firewall policy management for a network of distributed firewalls no longer has to be a complex process. GB Commander 2.0 provides centralized management and reporting whether the firewalls are located in the same office or located in offices around the world. Powerful firewall policy management features allows for policy revisions to be applied to either a single firewall or globally to a group of distributed firewalls, which makes it easy to maintain uniform corporate security standards. Generic security policies can be applied to entire groups of firewalls and then modified to meet the local network requirements. Administrators of GTA Firewall UTM systems running GB-OS will be familiar with configuration settings as they perform firewall policy management for monitored GTA Firewall UTM systems.

GB Commander 2.0's central management system provides robust firewall monitoring features. A display of real-time network events based upon firewall log reports provides administrators with an at-a-glance overview of a system's status. GB Commander 2.0's centralized management and reporting provides firewall monitoring features that include GB-OS version, firewall status, active connections, alarm count, CPU usage, memory usage, and bandwidth. As data is collected, system usage and bandwidth charts expand to display historical references for accurate network trend analysis.

Keeping system software on distributed firewalls up-to-date is simplified using GB Commander 2.0's central management system. GB Commander 2.0 actively monitors for published updates of GB-OS system software and alerts the administrator when new versions are available. GB Commander 2.0's remote firewall administration controls contain intuitive icons that indicate when GB-OS updates are available for each firewall. GB Commander 2.0's centralized management and reporting features allow complete remote firewall administration. Updates can be downloaded and applied to individual firewalls, or to a group of monitored firewalls. Required activation codes are automatically downloaded and applied to the firewall configuration. When adding new features to a GTA Firewall UTM system, the GB-OS update function can be used to automatically retrieve the new feature activation code and apply it to the existing configuration.

GB Commander 2.0 provides a centralized management and reporting platform that actively monitors firewall status and alarms in real-time to display an instant overview of network events. The central management system displays alerts and can send notifications as they happen, allowing administrators to take preventative action and resolve issues. Alarm notification rules allow the administrator to control the frequency and method of alarm notifications. Alarms are displayed in a table format and can be selectively acknowledged and cleared using the GB Commander 2.0 interface. Administrators can view alarms on individual firewalls or firewall groups using the central management system to review for potential security incidents.

GB Commander 2.0's central management system transforms the often-cumbersome task of remote firewall administration into a simple process with its user-friendly firewall organization tree. Organizations can group firewalls according to departments for effortless firewall policy management. Managed service providers can group distributed firewalls to match their services. Firewalls can be placed into groups and sub-groups to create a highly specific, yet easy to follow organizational layout that gives administrators structured access for centralized management and reporting.

GB Commander 2.0 accepts multiple administrators with different privilege levels to allow organizations to assign remote firewall administration tasks to personnel located on the network. This distributed approach allows for an optimum use of staff within the organization without introducing unnecessary threats to network security. Managed service providers can create specific administrative accounts to perform firewall policy management only for firewalls specific to a particular company authority. This provides network administrators with the ability to benefit from GB Commander 2.0's ease of use, without compromising access to unauthorized firewalls.

The GTA Firewall Control Center is a service that acts as the central hub for all of GTA's firewall monitoring and reporting products. It offers a single point of access to all GTA firewalls on your distributed network. With GB Commander 2.0, the Firewall Control Center consists of the GB Commander 2.0 Client, the GB Commander 2.0 Database Backend and the Firewall Control Center Server. GB Commander 2.0 software is installed on the Firewall Control Center Server. GTA Firewall UTM systems being monitored by GB Commander 2.0 send log data to the GB Commander Database Backend. Launched from the Firewall Control Center Server, the GB Commander 2.0 Client is a platform-independent Java-based client used to access data stored on the GB Commander 2.0 Database Backend. Using the GB Commander 2.0 Client users can administer firewalls and run reports on stored log data.

As your network grows, GB Commander 2.0's centralized management and reporting architecture is designed to grow with it. GB Commander 2.0 is available in a variety of configurations that meet your network's needs. Flexible licensing options allow for purchase of additional licenses as you increase the number of distributed firewalls in your network.

A free 30-day evaluation is available to GTA firewall owners. GB Commander 2.0 is available on the GB-OS CD version 5.0.2 or later, or may be downloaded from the GTA Online Support Center.