Powerful Platform for Comprehensive Management of Blue Coat Appliances

Blue Coat Director enables policy, configuration, and device management for Blue Coat appliances. Built as a management appliance, Director reduces management cost and complexity by providing centralized management of distributed and remote Blue Coat appliances. Configuration information and security policies are created and managed from a single easy to use interface available from any workstation with a Web browser.

With Director, organizations can enforce effective, consistent policies across their entire enterprise network – centrally managing hundreds of devices at remote sites worldwide. Installing configuration or policy updates to distributed or remote systems is typically time consuming and costly. However, Director automates the task of managing those changes by arming IT organizations with the essential management tool needed for rapid delivery of configuration, resource and policy changes to distributed appliances.
Blue Coat Director empowers organizations with:

• Centralized, enterprise-wide policy-based management
• Automated software upgrades
• Configuration backups and disaster recovery
• Powerful job scheduling automation
• Management appliance for simple install and ongoing maintenance
• Manage remotely via secure GUI or CLI
• Manage policy centrally, distribute globally
• Launch and use from any workstation with a web browser
• Reports give visibility into job status and outcomes

Director provides centralized change and policy management for today's Web infrastructure needs.

• Configuration Management - Standardize configurations, provide disaster protection, and centrally monitor and control Blue Coat appliances.
• Policy Management - Distributes and synchronizes web security and user access policies across the organization.
• Backup and Rollback - Conserve valuable resources with bandwidth policies and content control.