Clavister Knowledge Base
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Summary
Clavister Knowledge Base is a commercial documentation site that supports the configuration and troubleshooting of Clavister's NetWall firewalls and related cOS Core products. It is accessed as a self-hosted web reference rather than installed software, covering tasks like terminating DNS-over-TLSDNS-over-TLSA protocol that wraps DNS queries inside a TLS connection on port 853, preventing eavesdroppers from reading or tampering with hostname lookups. Cyber tools use it to keep reconnaissance and C2 traffic from leaking in plaintext. connections within an IP Policy or forwarding Clavister PAS logs to InCenter and Syslog servers. The material is written for network administrators and support staff running NetWall deployments rather than for end users, with guides spanning IPsecIPsecA suite of IETF protocols that authenticate and encrypt IP packets at the network layer, giving cyber tools a standards-based way to build VPNs or secure host-to-host tunnels without modifying applications., high availability, SASESASEA network architecture model combining wide-area networking and network security functions into a single cloud-delivered service, letting cyber tools enforce consistent policy regardless of where users or workloads sit., and identity integrations like IdAuth Cloud. It sits alongside vendor knowledge bases for other firewall platforms rather than any named competitor. Clavister launched the product line in 2002, and the knowledge base itself stays current, with 25 tracked releases and new articles published as recently as 19 days ago.
How Clavister Knowledge Base helps
How do I get IPsec tunnels to stop dropping when a gateway fails over to its backup?
points to the cookbook covering high-availability and traffic shaping alongside core IPsec setup, with the configuration steps for the failover scenario spelled out end to end
How do I let remote users authenticate through IdAuth Cloud instead of a local user database?
walks through the OIDC and OneConnect configuration needed to hand authentication off to IdAuth Cloud, step by step
Which settings do I need to get a Linux client connecting over OpenConnect to a NetWall gateway?
gives the client and gateway-side configuration for that specific pairing, including the split-tunnelling and core settings involved
How do I set up ZTNA access for users without standing up my own certificate infrastructure?
lays out the combined NetWall, IdAuth Cloud and OneConnect configuration for zero-trust access, and separately covers issuing certificates via ACME/Let's Encrypt if that's the piece missing
Why does an IKEv2 tunnel show two traffic selectors when only one network is configured?
explains the negotiation behaviour behind that mismatch so it can be told apart from a misconfiguration
How do I get InCenter running on my own Kubernetes cluster rather than hosted?
provides the on-prem setup guide for deploying it via Helm
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Score card
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Shipping velocity releases a month, last 12 months
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Documentation quality release-notes rubric, 0–100
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Breaking-change discipline how rarely a release breaks users, and notice given
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Maintenance risk quiet time against its own cadence, maintainers
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Innovation & surface new capabilities, API and MCP surface
Five scores for Clavister Knowledge Base, each built from the releases, notes and API history this site tracks — and, on Researcher and Business, where it stands among every measured tool in its category and how that has moved.
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How this is scored
- Shipping velocity — releases a month over the last 12 months, on a log scale where 16 a month scores 100. Needs 3 releases in the window.
- Documentation quality — the release-notes rubric published on the analytics page, unchanged.
- Breaking-change discipline — the share of releases carrying a breaking change (none scores 100, half or more scores 0). Only projects that label breaking changes are measured: a clean record cannot be told from an unlabelled one.
- Maintenance risk — quiet time measured against the tool's own release cadence (quiet longer than 90 days and three typical gaps scores 0), plus the number of active maintainers and whether contributors are growing, where known. Higher is lower risk.
- Innovation & surface — new capabilities in the feature ledger this year, API and MCP operations added, and the share of commits that are features: the mean of whichever we hold.
- Community health (open-source tools only) — each is a direction, not a size: contributors this year against last, the bus factor now against a year ago, and issues closed per issue opened, where steady scores 50, doubled 100 and halved 0; plus the median time to a maintainer's first reply (an hour scores about 100, a month or more 0). A commercial card has no repository and carries none of the four.
- Documented delivery (commercial tools) — when a vendor's documented new capabilities have slowed against its own baseline, that counts against the overall standing as heavily as two low dimensions. Steady delivery, or too little history to judge, leaves the standing alone; it is never a sixth score.
- Open-source tools are scored on repository signals; commercial tools on their published changelog. Ranks compare tools within one category and one profile and need at least five measured peers; the overall standing needs three ranked dimensions. Best-in-breed or consolidator is a shape, not a quality, and is never scored.
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Website history
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