Cisco Configuration Professional is a GUI based device management tool for Cisco access routers. It simplifies router, firewall, IPS, VPN, unified communications, WAN, LAN and basic wireless configuration through easy-to-use wizards.
Cisco Configuration Professional is a GUI based device management tool for Cisco access routers. It simplifies router, firewall, IPS, VPN, unified communications, WAN, LAN and basic wireless configuration through easy-to-use wizards.
Brand | Cisco |
Product Type | Configuration Professional |
OS Compatibility | Windows 7, Windows Vista: Business Edition and Ultimate Edition, Windows XP with SP2 and higher, Mac OSX 10.5.6 running Windows XP using VMWare 2.0 |
System Requirements | For Client - software: Sun JRE 1.5.0_11 up to 1.6.0_16, Adobe Flash Player Version 10.0.12.36 and later; PC hardware: Minimum 2-GHz processor, 1-GB DRAM minimum; 2 GB recommended, Screen Resolution : 1024 x 768, Free disk space of 200 MB; Browser requirements: Microsoft IE 6.X or later. |
Feature 01 | Integrated Security Configuration: When deploying a new router with Cisco Configuration Professional, you can configure a Cisco IOS Software firewall quickly. An advanced firewall wizard allows for a single-step deployment of high, medium, or low application firewall policy settings. |
Feature 02 | Integrated Voice Configuration With Cisco Configuration Professional you can easily set up your Cisco IP telephony system by configuring the Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express call processing and Cisco Unity Express voicemail. When deploying a new IP telephony system using the application, you can configure it as a standalone Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express or as a gateway to Cisco Unified Communications Manager. |
Feature 03 | Cost Savings : Cisco Configuration Professional is ideal for enterprise branch offices and companies of all sizes that are sensitive to device deployment and network management costs and have few skilled technicians. Cisco Configuration Professional enhances the productivity of network, security, and voice administrators through built-in configuration checks, a configuration editor for experts, and meaningful defaults. |
Feature 04 | Comprehensive remote management:This feature turns the router into a security, voice, and remote-access solution with its own management tool; You can manage the router remotely from any supported desktop or laptop. |
Feature 05 | Out-of-the-box router configuration: Cisco Configuration Professional Express is a slimmed-down version of the Cisco Configuration Professional GUI tool embedded in the router flash memory that helps Cisco partners and customers with out-of-the-box configuration of access-router LAN and WAN interfaces and minimal Cisco IOS Software security features. |
Feature 06 | At-a-glance router status views: These views offer a quick graphical summary of router hardware, software, and primary router services such as VPN, firewall, QoS, etc. |
Feature 07 | Demo Mode: This feature can be used by sales representatives to show case the feature richness of the ISR |
Feature 08 | Router security audit: The audit assesses the vulnerability of your existing router. It provides quick compliance to best-practices security policies for routers. |
Feature 09 | One-step router lockdown: This feature simplifies firewall and Cisco IOS Software configuration without requiring expertise about security or Cisco IOS Software. |
Feature 10 | Cisco Configuration Professional is a device management tool that your business can use to address these challenges. It provides in-depth configuration GUI screens to help you easily configure complex routing, security and voice features in the router. |
Feature 11 | QoS policy : WAN and VPN bandwidth and application performance for different business needs (voice and video, enterprise applications, web, etc.) are easily optimized. Three predefined categories of policy are available: real-time, business-critical, and best-effort. |
Feature 12 | Network-based application recognition (NBAR): NBAR provides real-time validation of application usage of WAN and VPN bandwidth against predefined service policies; NBAR provides for traffic performance monitoring. |
Feature 13 | Real-time monitoring and logging: Administrators can proactively manage router resources and security before they affect mission-critical applications on the network. |
Feature 14 | Content filtering: Cisco value-added resellers and partners can configure content filtering on the access router to permit or deny URLs (based on categories configured in a third-party database) or to block any keywords or specific domains. The content filtering feature blocks access to the URLs, keywords, or specific domains from inside the corporate network. |
Feature 15 | Routing: Supported routing protocols include Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), Routing Information Protocol (RIP) Version 2, and static. |
Feature 16 | Task-based Cisco Configuration Professional user interface: This interface provides for faster and easier configuration of security configurations -- IPsec VPNs, firewall, ACLs, IPSs, etc; The interface provides a quick snapshot of router services configuration through the dashboard view on the homepage. |
Feature 17 | Voice system features : Paging groups and paging number, adhoc and meet-me conferencing, night services, intercom, whisper intercom, after hours, call park, hunt groups,call blast, pickup groups and single number reach; Users, phones, and extensions: System speed dial, multiple lines per phone,dual line, octal line, phone softkeys, call forward all, call forward busy, call forward no answer, monitor, overlay,share, extension templates; Voicemail: Voicemail initialization, systemwide default setting, message waiting indicator, and mailbox. |
Feature 18 | VPN: VPN protocols include Easy VPN Server, Easy VPN Remote, Enhanced Easy VPN (IPsec Dynamic Virtual Tunnel Interface [DVTI]), SSL VPN, generic routing encapsulation (GRE) over IPsec, Dynamic Multipoint VPN (DMVPN) (full-mesh or hub-spoke), GET VPN, Voice and Video Enabled VPN (V3PN), digital certificates, VPN monitor, and troubleshooting; Firewall: Firewall support includes zone-based firewall, stateful inspection, application firewall, granular protocol inspection, network edge, firewall log, and policy table. |
Feature 19 | Advanced configuration: Cisco IOS Software Certificate Authority Server, AutoQoS phase II, Network Address Translation (NAT) wizards, ACL,ACL Object Groups, VLAN, CLI preview mode, DHCP server, WLAN, date and time, Network Time Protocol (NTP), Domain Name System (DNS), SSHv2, management access policy, dynamic Domain Name System (DNS), 802.1x L2 port, and 802.1x Layer 3 spouse and kids are all supported. |
Cisco Configuration Professional is a GUI based device management tool for Cisco access routers. It simplifies router, firewall, IPS, VPN, unified communications, WAN, LAN and basic wireless configuration through easy-to-use wizards.