Remote Access

In the settings of the Remote Access VPN Software Blade for the plan, enable access to your VPN from authenticated remote users.

You can override the Remote Access VPN Software Blade settings in a plan for a specified gateway. You must first unlock the Remote Access VPN Software Blade from the plan.

To configure the Remote Access VPN Software Blade settings of a plan:

  1. Go to Home > Plans.

  2. Click the plan name.

    The Edit page opens.

  3. Click Security Software Blades > Remote Access.

  4. Select Manage in SMP.

  5. Select Allow traffic from Remote Access users (by default) to enable log in to the network from a remote site. It does not give access without authentication.

  6. Select Log traffic from Remote Access users - (by default) to log this traffic.

  7. Click Save.

To override the Remote Access VPN settings set by a plan:

  1. Go to Home > Gateways.

  2. Click the gateway name.

    The Edit page opens.

  3. Click Security Software Blades > Remote Access.

  4. If the Remote Access VPN settings are locked, click Unlock from plan.

  5. To stop remote management of the blade, clear Manage in SMP.

  6. Set the Policy options (see above).

  7. Click Save.

To connect to the appliance:

  1. Go to Home > Gateways.

  2. Click the gateway name.

    The Edit page opens.

  3. Click Security Software Blades > Remote Access VPN.

  4. Click Access Gateway: Remote Access.

    A browser page opens and shows the progress of the SMP connection to the gateway. The appliance opens on the Remote Access page. You can now update the local appliance.

    Note - If a local administrator is already logged in to the appliance, click OK to override that connection. Click Cancel to cancel your login attempt.