About Centralized Configuration Management

Centralized configuration management allows you to publish configurations from a Cisco Secure Email and Web Managerappliance to the associated Web Security appliances, in order to:

• Simplify and speed management of web security policies by configuring or updating settings once on the Security Management appliance, instead of on each Web Security appliance.

• Ensure uniform policy enforcement across distributed networks.

There are two ways to publish settings to Web Security appliances:

• Using Configuration Masters

• Using configuration files from Web Security appliances (using Advanced File Publishing)