Remote Administration

## Remote Screen Administration

Remote SunScreen Administration is a SunScreen configuration that consists of a Screen that is physically separate from the Administration Station. The Screen can be both headless and keyboardless, and can communicate with the Administration Station through a TCP/IP interface that need not be exposed to the Internet (although it might be exposed to the local network, depending on the topology you use and your choice of Stealth or Routing mode). The communications between the Screen and the Administration Station are encrypted with SKIP.

Remote Administration can be used for:

- A single Screen
- A group of centrally managed Screens

If you use a remote Administration Station for Centralized Management, you can use one of the following scenarios:

- The remote Administration Station connects the the Secondary Screens without going through a firewall.
- The remote Administration Station connects to the Secondary Screens through a firewall.

#### Remote Administration without going through a firewall

If the remote Administration Station connects to the Secondary Screens without going through a firewall, use Skiphost to enable access to the Secondary Screens by giving it information about the SKIP ID for the Secondary Screen.

#### Remote Administration through a firewall

If the remote Administration Station connects to the Secondary Screens through a firewall, perform the following operations.

1. Enable access to the Secondary Screens by giving it information about the SKIP ID for the Secondary Screen.
2. Allow SKIP service from the remote admin to the Secondary Screen on each firewall.
3. Allow certificate discovery service from the remote Administration Station to the Secondary Screen on each firewall through which the Administration Station must communicate.

Note: If the firewall that the Administration Station goes through is not SunScreen, the equivalent services must be allowed.

#### See also

Adding a Remote Administration Station
Centralized Management