Centralised Mgmt & Reporting

Flexible & Resilient Management Platform

SonicWALL Management and Reporting Solutions are designed to provide enterprises with a flexible, powerful, and resilient platform to centrally manage and rapidly deploy SonicWALL appliances and security configurations. In addition, it provides centralised real-time monitoring, and delivers comprehensive policy and compliance reports for even the most stringent auditing requirements. For distributed networks with dispersed branch offices and remote sites, SonicWALL's solutions scale to manage thousands of sites. This results in simplifying the complexity of network management, reducing administration time, and delivering a lower total cost of ownership (TCO).

Lowers Total Cost of Ownership

• Central management for multiple SonicWALL appliances is as simple as managing a single device, yielding tremendous time savings and reduced total cost of ownership (TCO)
• Integrated application suite inclusive of event monitoring, reporting and management functions provides all the necessary tools to manage a distributed enterprise network without the costs and risks associated with disparate software bundles
• Trend reports help IT staff members optimise traffic, quickly isolate rogue hosts on network segments, and pinpoint traffic patterns isolated to just a single user or a network appliance

Powerful Network Management

• Configuring complex pools of SonicWALL appliances for VPN connectivity (e.g. hub-and-spoke or mesh VPN tunnels) is significantly simplified, reducing time-to-deployment and lessening the likelihood of configuration oversights
• Uniform creation and execution of firewall security policies across a vast array of SonicWALL appliances
• Inheritance rules that adopt policies from group configurations mitigate orphaned security rules and provide consistent group management for the entire enterprise
• Offline management to execute updates and changes during off-peak time to minimise network downtime and disruption
• License manager synched to MySonicWALL.com account is embedded into the platform to actively collect, report, and update a limitless number of SonicWALL security subscriptions
• Hierarchical group/user-level management rights defined by custom access privileges to read, read/write, or completely hide units and menus from view

Scalable and Distributed Architecture

• Management and Reporting platform can incrementally scale to support thousands of remote SonicWALL appliances without a huge upfront capital outlay
• Expansion of network management ranging from traditional SonicWALL security and content filtering devices to remote access and data protection appliances
• Network disruption is practically eliminated due to the innate HA architecture and support for multiple management servers acting as backups for one another
  

Network Monitoring and Event Logging

• Cohesive SonicWALL logging consolidates security events and logs for thousands of appliances, thereby allowing for a single point to research all security activity
• Granular filters can isolate individual users or groups, their destinations, and services used
• Storage capabilities facilitate archival functions of historical logs dating back to the installation date of the management platform

Compliance and Activity Reporting

• Summary capsules provide an overview of the corporate bandwidth consumption, top users, and various thwarted attacks
• Detailed reports deliver insightful data that can be granularly defined for browse times, Website visits, and VPN usage patterns
• Regulatory compliance reports trace the footprints of every successful and unsuccessful user and administrator that crosses paths with a SonicWALL appliance

Co-Terminated Support

• Support coverage can treat an entire SonicWALL installation as one support contract
• Lapses in support coverage are eliminated, ensuring all SonicWALL appliances are current on software updates and firmware
• Single co-terminated support to manage regardless of the number of SonicWALL appliances under management