The management challenges for a small to medium-sized business (SMB) are no different than larger enterprises. SMBs must also contend with disparate tools to manage, monitor and report on the health of their network. Whether a business has as few as 5 or as many as 50 remote locations, SonicWALL's Management and Reporting Solutions offer tremendous value in providing uniform management of firewalls and VPN gateways coupled with the value of real-time and historical reporting.
Simplified Network Management
- Intuitive Web interface allows for unified management and configuration of multiple appliance and security policies
- Flexible policy configurations enables network administrators to create custom security policies for either local or remote users, as well as branch offices
- Administration of site-to-site and remote access VPN tunnels is greatly simplified and less prone to configuration errors and omissions in access policies
Real-Time Monitoring and Alerting
- Native monitoring application delivers real-time network statistics on SonicWALL and non-SonicWALL devices such as Web servers, switches and SNMP-enabled services
- Critical alarms can be set for a variety of priorities and alert levels
- Granular logging and reporting capabilities provide detailed insight into network activity right down to the individual user and service
- Seamless integration with SonicWALL's GMS Management console
Network Activity Reporting
- Customizable historical trend reports provide empirical data on the effectiveness of the SonicWALL appliance and security subscriptions
- Tailored time-based reports track users' web usage activity by type of service, sites visited, and browse-times
- Integrated graphical charts and tables that can be scheduled and exported to any group or distribution list
- Flexible options to provide SonicWALL reporting on a closed network segment without a need for global management
