What Cisco device, if I may ask? Why are you moving away from ISA?
-Malcolm From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 1:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Virtualized Websense? ISA, but ISA will soon be going away in favor of Cisco equipment. On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Kelsey, John <[email protected]> wrote: Sherry, Are you running on top of ISA, or do you have it installed on a standalone box and all users go out another way? ******************************* John C. Kelsey DuBois Regional Medical Center (: 814.375.3073 *: <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] ******************************* -----Original Message----- From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 12:10 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Virtualized Websense? Port mirroring, multiple nics and huge resource requirements. Like I said, we tried virtualization and it didn't work well, called their tech support and found out that it's not recommended for running in a virtual mode. Paul, words of wisdom for implementing: make sure you have clearly defined (by management) rules to setup prior to implementing (just saves you some headaches, we have changed our configuration multiple times, and actually rebuilt Websense a couple of times because of mgmt changing their minds.). Websense technical support is your friend, they are very helpful and in our experience response time has been excellent, (I think it's always been we got help on that call with little waiting. Have setup several webex sessions and have had really good results with them.) I'm not saying that the product is hard to use, or configure, we've just had mgmt changing their minds so many times that we couldn't undo what we had done to do what was requested without a complete rebuild or help from technical support. (It's a long story, we've had it in place almost a year now, and it's still not really in production and is in fact undergoing another rebuild.....sigh). Oh and by rebuild, I don't mean a complete rebuild from the OS up, just a rebuild/clean install of the application..... On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Kelsey, John <[email protected]> wrote: Just out of curiosity, why didn't it work? Because of the port mirroring? We're about to decommish our SurfControl and install Websense. ******************************* John C. Kelsey DuBois Regional Medical Center (: 814.375.3073 *: <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] ******************************* -----Original Message----- From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 11:48 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Virtualized Websense? Nope, Websense requires physical hardware, and yes, we tried to deploy it in VMWare and it no workee. On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Joe Heaton <[email protected]> wrote: Has anyone tried this, or is running Websense virtualized? Looking at finally getting our feet wet with server virtualization, using ESXi, and trying to find out if it is possible/supported to run Websense in a virtual environment. Joe Heaton AISA Employment Training Panel 1100 J Street, 4th Floor Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 327-5276 [email protected] -- Sherry Abercrombie "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. -- Sherry Abercrombie "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. -- Sherry Abercrombie "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
