The VA Service Managed Controller solution enables zero touch total knowledge provisioning and on-going management of both the VA Managed Service Gateway and Virtual Private Networks from a central site. Virtual Private Services management allows groups of customer devices to be managed as a single network entity. Devices can be added and removed and the associated configuration changes required for the remaining devices updates automatically to maintain the service. Device Profiling Using the concept of Device Profiling it is possible to use a set of applications to simplify and speed up the process of building device configurations specific to individual customer needs. At the heart of the automatic configuration is the Service Profile, a baseline configuration that provides the common attributes that characterize a service.
Service profiles provide a single point of change for all devices in a given service.
By updating the profile, a single command can propagate those changes to all devices created from that profile. This simplifies the upgrade process and eliminates the tedium and error prone steps that come with manual processes. Community management Community management extends the concept of device profiles for individual devices to a community management capability. Devices can be collated into logical communities or groups where the individual device configurations have inter-dependencies, such as the set of VPN gateways forming a customer VPN network. In this way any impact from changes made to one device in the group can be propagated as necessary to other devices.