The Product's Architecture (Cont. 2)

• To configure the system (add proxied services, set access permissions), a GUI based on win2K's MMC is used.
• This GUI stores the configuration in an active-directory server, and then notifies the data-center appliance to take the configuration. In addition, the GUI can show events, accounting data, etc.
• Each appliance runs (a subset of) several processes - a multi-threaded communications process, a compression adaptation process, a configuration control process, an accounting process, and events-handling process...

Originally written by guy keren