With more and more individuals working outside traditional office settings, the need for secure remote access to corporate resources has become more important than ever. No matter where users are: whether traveling nationally or internationally, working from home or on site at a partner location, they should be able to access corporate resources without compromising security. The Novell Access Manager Secure Socket layer Virtual Private Network (SSL VPN) is the product that allows secure “anywhere-, anytime-access”.
Novell's SSL VPN is a new type of VPN based on the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol used in e-commerce. SSL has been traditionally and widely deployed for securing web-based applications in the form of HTTPS. SSL is embedded in most IP stacks and occupies the architectural base of the application layer. It can be installed directly on the Linux Access Gateway, or on any host running SLES 9, 10 or 11. For more information on deployment scenarios, see http://www.novell.com/documentation/novellaccessmanager/installation/?page=/documentation/novellaccessmanager/installation/data/bookinfo.html.
This document will look at the architecture of the Novell Access Manager SSLVPN solution, the flow of events within an SSLVPN session and look at troubleshooting tools available to help troubleshoot SSLVPN issues in your environment.