The Management Server (MS) handles the configuration tasks of the entire solution. Your firewall administrators use the Management Console (MC) application on their desktop to access MS and modify the configuration of your firewalls. MS is the central command center of the solution: it stores and manages the configuration of PNS firewall hosts.

The real power of MS surfaces when more than one PNS firewalls have to be administered: instead of configuring the different firewalls individually and manually, you can configure them at a central location with MS, and upload the configuration changes to the firewalls. Because MS stores the configuration of every firewall, you can backup the configuration of your entire firewall system. In case of an emergency, you can restore the configuration of every firewall with a few clicks.