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Once the VPN infrastructure is in production and users are actively

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using the system to access on‑premises resources,

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monitoring things like system health and user activity is critical.

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Administrators have a number of tools at their disposal to perform these tasks.

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First, there is the Routing and Remote Access Management console,

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and this is the console that we've been using throughout this course thus far

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and you should be intimately familiar with it at this point.

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The Routing and Remote Access Management console is

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really ideal for configuration tasks, but in my opinion,

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it's less well‑suited to daily operational use as you'll see here shortly.

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However, it does have its own advantages,

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and we'll talk through this in detail in the next demonstration.

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Next, there is the Remote Access Management console,

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so this is subtly different, but similar.

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This is another GUI console that if your a direct access

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administrator you'll already be familiar with,

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but it is a more modern version of the RRAS Management console,

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and in my opinion is a better choice for daily administrative tasks.

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It's not a perfect tool, however,

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and it does have its own limitations which will explore here shortly.

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Finally, there is PowerShell.

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Now,

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PowerShell is ideal for any monitoring reporting tasks that require automation.

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There is a lot of information that can be accessed using PowerShell,

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and it also has the advantage of being able to perform these

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tasks remotely and across multiple servers which can really be

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helpful in larger deployments.

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Using PowerShell is also helpful for pushing data to other systems, for example, SIM solutions like Splunk or other data repositories as well.