TABLE OF CONTENTS As you can see by the size of this book, you can design and configure quite a bit when it comes to the Juniper Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) virtual private network (VPN). Fortunately, you must complete relatively few tasks to get the box up and running on your network. In this chapter, we will focus on those initial steps that involve everything you need to know to get the IVE up and running. We will then go into some detail about IVE licensing (features and support), as well as certificates and other system wide settings to be configured on the IVE.
The tools we discuss in this chapter will enable you to get your box up and running on the network. Unlike some other appliances, you do very little through the command-line interface (CLI) on the Juniper IVE. Juniper has left most of the configuration to its AdminUI, which you can access in virtually any Web browser. The CLI is basically enabled to allow for the initial setup, as well as for some last-resort troubleshooting techniques which you may have to employ if you lose your connection to the IVE or are locked out for one reason or another. In any event, you will find that the IVE provides you with the tools you need to set up your IVE, as well as maintain the system that your organization will no doubt rely heavily upon.
We start our IVE endeavor with a task in which many...
