Prerequisites

The prerequisites are similar for each platform NSM can be installed on:

• Firewalls supported by an NSM On-Premises instance must be in a single Group or Tenancy.
• The firewalls added to NSM On-Premises are not a part of CSC (Capture Security Center) or NSM SaaS.
• All the manually acquired firewalls should have HTTPS management enabled.

If a manually acquired firewall is behind a NAT device, the HTTPS management port must be opened for the NSM On-Premises services to communicate with the firewall.

For a KVM implementation, ensure that your Linux system supports KVM and download the image file to your Linux system (for example, SonicWall_NSM_On-Prem__For_QEMU_VM.img) to your Linux machine.