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Features & Benefits
Tight Integration
SonicWALL GMS gives administrators the integrated tools to manage all security policies and services throughout a large-scale, multiple policy enterprise or service provider environment. Administrators can easily configure settings for SonicWALL firewall, anti-spam, backup and recovery, and secure remote access products and add SonicWALL upgrade and subscription services, such as Gateway Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware and Intrusion Prevention Service, Client/Server Anti-Virus Suite and Content Filtering Service with the click of a button.
Cost Effective
SonicWALL GMS delivers a cost-effective global security management solution that reduces staffing requirements, speeds up deployment and lowers the cost of managing security services.
Easy Policy Management
SonicWALL GMS allows administrators to easily create security policies for the SonicWALL network security, backup and recovery, anti-spam, and secure remote access solutions and enforce them at the global, group or unit level.
In-Depth Reporting
SonicWALL GMS allows administrators to generate a wide range of informative and historical reports to provide insight into usage trends, such as which Web sites have been accessed by whom and security events of your managed SonicWALL appliances.
System Requirements
Operating System
- Microsoft® Environment: Windows Server 2000 (SP4), Windows Server 2003 32 bit and 64 bit (SP2), Windows Server 2008 SBS 64 bit, Windows Server 2008 Standard 32 bit and 64 bit (SP1).
- In all instances SonicWALL GMS is running as a 32 bit application.
Hardware for Single Server Deployment
- x86 Environment: Minimum 3 GHz processor Server dual-core CPU Intel processor, 4 GB RAM and 300 GB disk space.
Hardware for Distributed Server Deployment
- GMS Server x86 Environment: Minimum 3 GHz processor single-CPU Intel processor, 2 GB RAM and 300 GB disk space.
- Database Server x86 Environment: Minimum 3 GHz processor dual-core CPU Intel processor, 2 GB RAM and 300 GB disk space.
GMS Gateway
- SonicWALL E-Class NSA, NSA or PRO Series Network Security Appliance with minimum firmware and SonicWALL VPN-based Network Security Appliances1
Supported Databases
- External Databases: Microsoft SQL 2000 (SP4), Microsoft SQL 2005 32 bit and 64 bit (SP2), Microsoft SQL 2008 (SP1) 64 bit, MySQL 32 bit
- Bundled with the GMS application: MySQL
Supported SonicWALL Appliances Managed by GMS
- SonicWALL Network Security appliances: E-Class NSA, NSA, PRO Series, TZ Series appliances3
- SonicWALL Continuous Data Protection appliances
- SonicWALL Content Security Manager (CSM) appliances
- SonicWALL Secure Remote Access appliances: E-Class SRA and SSL VPN for SMB
- SonicWALL Email Security appliances
- All TCP/IP and SNMP-enabled devices and applications for active monitoring
Internet Browsers
- Microsoft® Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher
- Mozilla Firefox 2.0 or higher
Java
- Java Plug-in version 1.5 or later
Supported SonicWALL Firmware
- SonicWALL Network Security Appliances: E-Class NSA and NSA SonicOS Enhanced 5.0 or higher
- SonicWALL PRO Series Appliances: SonicOS Enhanced 3.2 or higher
- SonicWALL TZ Series Appliances: SonicOS Standard 3.1 or higher and SonicOS Enhanced 3.2 or higher
- SonicWALL CDP Appliances: SonicWALL CDP 2.3 or higher
- SonicWALL CSM Appliances: SonicWALL 2.0 or higher
- SonicWALL SRA Appliances: SonicWALL SSL VPN SMB Firmware 2.0 or higher and SonicWALL Aventail E-Class SSL VPN Firmware 9.0 or higher
- • SonicWALL Email Security Appliances: SonicWALL Email Security 7.0 firmware
Purchase Information
Software
| Product | Nodes | SKU |
|---|---|---|
| SonicWALL GMS Software | 10 Nodes | 01-SSC-3363 |
| 25 Nodes | 01-SSC-3311 |
Software Upgrades
| Upgrade Options | Nodes | SKU |
|---|---|---|
| SonicWALL GMS Software Upgrade | 1 Node | 01-SSC-7662 |
| 5 Nodes | 01-SSC-3350 | |
| 10 Nodes | 01-SSC-7664 | |
| 25 Nodes | 01-SSC-3301 | |
| 100 Nodes | 01-SSC-3303 | |
| 250 Nodes | 01-SSC-3304 | |
| 1,000 Nodes | 01-SSC-3306 |
Software Support
| Support Option | Nodes | SKU |
|---|---|---|
| SonicWALL GMS E-Class 24x7 Software Support (1 yr.)2 | 1 Node | 01-SSC-7675 |
| 5 Nodes | 01-SSC-6524 | |
| 10 Nodes | 01-SSC-6514 | |
| 25 Nodes | 01-SSC-3334 | |
| 100 Nodes | 01-SSC-3336 | |
| 250 Nodes | 01-SSC-3337 | |
| 1,000 Nodes | 01-SSC-3338 | |
| SonicWALL Comprehensive GMS E-Class Support 24X7 | 1 Node | 01-SSC-7679 |
| 5 Nodes | 01-SSC-3354 | |
| 10 Nodes | 01-SSC-3353 | |
| 25 Nodes | 01-SSC-3374 | |
| 100 Nodes | 01-SSC-3376 | |
| 1,000 Nodes | 01-SSC-3377 | |
| Note: E-Class support sold separately. E-Class support required purchase with GMS. | ||
1When using the Management VPN Tunnel option for secure communication between the SonicWALL GMS server and managed appliances using VPN tunnels, a GMS Gateway is required. The GMS gateway should be at minimum a SonicWALL NSA with minimum firmware SonicOS Enhanced 5.0, or a SonicWALL PRO 2040 with minimum firmware SonicOS Enhanced 3.2. When using Existing VPN Tunnels or HTTPS as the management method, a GMS Gateway is not required.
2Two and three year support SKUs are also available.
3Legacy SonicWALL XPRS/XPRS2, SonicWALL SOHO2, SonicWALL Tele2, and SonicWALL Pro/Pro-VX models are not supported.
