Blue Coat PolicyCenter

Blue Coat PolicyCenter centrally manages the configuration, policy management, software distribution and adaptive response tracking of multi-unit deployments. PolicyCenter ensures that application performance and bandwidth utilization stay aligned with the changing demands of your business, whether for several appliances located at one site or thousands of appliances distributed globally.

Using PolicyCenter, you can:

• Manage up to 600 PacketShaper deployments through a single, intuitive interface.
• Automatically deploy and configure remote appliances in minutes.
• Apply customized policies based on location, function or other criteria.
• Scale IT resources to reduce overhead and total cost of ownership.

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Ensure that application performance and bandwidth utilization stay aligned with changing business demands across the whole network. Exert comprehensive network control with centralized configuration, policy management, software distribution and Adaptive Response tracking for multi-unit PacketShaper deployments.

Centralized Control Mechanisms
Select from a wide variety of centralized mechanisms available to control performance-including dynamic partitions and sub partitions, rate control and never-admit, ignore and discard policies.

Flexible Configuration Overrides
Flexible configuration overrides make it easy to design location-specific settings.

Shared Hierarchical Configurations
Hierarchical configurations are sharable by multiple PacketShaper appliances.

Schedulable Distribution
Schedule the distribution of PacketShaper software upgrades and plug-ins.

More Configurations Faster with Trial Mode
Test new PacketShaper configurations with trial and rollback modes first to ensure success first time.

Centralized Adaptive Response View
Maintain a centralized view of Adaptive Response status for thousands of PacketShaper appliance.

Comprehensive Network Management
PolicyCenter-together with ReportCenter-provides a comprehensive, centralized network management solution.

Secure, role-based Management
Hierarchical logins based on secure LDAP technology assign rights to users or groups with audit trails to monitor activities.

Ensure that application performance and bandwidth utilization stay aligned with changing business demands across the whole network. Exert comprehensive network control with centralized configuration, policy management, software distribution and Adaptive Response tracking for multi-unit PacketShaper deployments.

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PolicyCenter Datasheet

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