NetScreen also offers an add-on global management packet, but it stores the individual configuration files for each gateway. Radguard says its next release will offer global configuration. The Axent and Intel entries require manual configuration for each gateway. Our third and final management scenario dealt with interoperability between VPN gateways and user directories. The first step involves pulling in user account information from external sources.
All gateways interoperate with at least one external directory.
As noted in the first management scenario, more than half the products also interoperate with Entrust CAs. Most of the products also let us put users into logical groups. The only exception here was the gateway from Sonicwall. Accounting was not the gateways' strongest feature. Devices from Alcatel and Intel use Radius logs, which identify users by source address and time, but don't specify what network resources the user consumes.