"Our security group is recommending not to use PDM to
configure our Pix firewalls. They did not give any
reason for their recommendation. Does anyone know why
PDM should not be used?"
From what I understand there are a few commands that can't be used from
the PDM (they require the use of the CLI), also using a web-based
configuration tool seems to undermine the very premise of network security,
if you think about it how many companies use the other web-based software
(for configuration) that Cisco has made available. Also , if you look at the
software that Cisco has produced in the past it hasn't been very reliable
(due to the fact that it is freely available and gives no ROI) an example
would be their TFTP server software or the Cisco Configmaker. From what I
understand the PDM was made available to compete with the other vendors web
based configuration software, obviously there is a demand from the customers
for such software(So it could be possible that Cisco is actually making am
attempt on this one), but whether or not PDM is just a marketing tool or a
viable configuration solution I don't know. What is the reason that you are
considering using the PDM software in the first place???
HTH, Jason
""Gary Leong"" wrote in message
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> Our security group is recommending not to use PDM to
> configure our Pix firewalls. They did not give any
> reason for their recommendation. Does anyone know why
> PDM should not be used?
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