JUNOS Pulse Gateway - MAG2600

I get to work with most of the Juniper security range and I feel one of the best bits of kit they have is the SSL VPN boxes.

Recently Juniper have brought out the JUNOS Pulse Gateway MAG series devices, at first I was unsure whether these were a replacement for the Juniper SA range or not. Additionally it is not easy to find any Juniper documentation that states that they do the same job.

Juniper do state that the MAG devices are SSL VPN boxes and the 2600 series for example (as it is on my desk) can sustain 100 concurrent users. As well as the SSL VPN function they can also be converted to perform NAC services but that is another discussion. The bottom line was that I needed to know whether it could perform all the other funky features such as secure meeting, virtual desktops, folder redirection, host checking etc. that were available on the SA boxes and which my clients love so much. I was aware that the MAG Series still uses IVE but needed to be certain that they could perform all the same tasks.

That being the case I was able to get a box on eval to play with.

For anyone that has used the SA boxes before then the principle is still the same. You console onto the box, set the networking, certificate and credentials. Then browse to the box via IP and login via the /admin page.

As you can see from the screenshots the WebUI is still exactly the same and the functionality is also still the same.