MSS FW Best Practices: Logging

CAUTION: These documents are intended to provide partners with firewall configuration recommendations ONLY. They contain examples and caution should be exercised when making changes to your firewall as unplanned changed could result in downtime based on the complexity of the environment and/or configuration. 

MSS Recomended SonicWall Firewall Best Practices Index

Name Resolution

• Name Resolution Method: DNS
  • NEVER use NETBIOS.

Automation

• In most cases, this creates an overwhelming amount of email and can put undue strain firewall’s Thus, this feature is not recommended for logs. Utilize syslog to SonicWall GMS or Analyzer or send to a 3rd party Syslog collector.
• For Alerts, don’t set globally here. Set specific alerts you wish to receive by email via Log >>> Settings >>> Edit the Event

o    Regardless, verify email settings are correct if doing this.