Enhancing Corporate Network Security with SAMI's Firewall Upgrade Feature

SonicWall AI for Monitoring & Insight (SAMI) helps check if firewalls are running outdated firmware, which can create security risks. SAMI allows to upgrade to the latest firmware and schedule the upgrades with minimal manual effort, improving network's security and efficiency.

1. Submit a request to SAMI to check for the firewalls that are due for an upgrade.

   For example, enter Show the firmware version that can be upgraded.

   SAMI displays a list of firewalls, highlighting the firewall friendly name, serial number and current firmware version.

   

2. Review the firewall list and enter the serial number or name of the firewall in the text box for SAMI to assist with updating the firewall.

   For example, enter Upgrade firewall with <serial number> to the latest firmware version. Replace <serial number> with the serial number of your firewall.

   SAMI displays available firmware versions with release type and inquires if you would like to schedule the upgrade now or schedule for later.

   

   Release type: General Release or Maintenance Release

   Critical infrastructure firewalls is upgraded to the General Release for enhanced security features, while less critical firewall receives the Maintenance Release version for stability. Select the release type of upgrade you need.
   Ensure that the firewalls are online and available to upgrade the firmware.

   Upgrade schedule: now or later.

   For a firewall that performs critical operations, it is recommended that the upgrade take place over the weekend during a maintenance window to minimize disruption. Specify the schedule date and time.
   If you select upgrade now, Firewall upgrade starts immediately and restarts during this process.

3. Specify the date and time you would like to schedule the upgrade.

   You can specify the schedule in the following ways:

   • Specify the exact date and time in 24-hour or 12-hour format. For example, 21/05/2025 06:00 PM or 21/05/2025 18:00.
   • Specify a time after a specific number of hours. For example, After an hour.

   For this example, enter 21/05/2025 06:00 PM.

   

   SAMI displays a firmware upgrade warning detailing the upgrade task and asks for confirmation to continue with the upgrade task.

   Upon confirmation, SAMI displays the firmware upgrade schedule details with a commit ID for tracking.

   

 

• You can upgrade multiple firewalls at once by selecting all the firewalls of the same model. All selected models will receives the same firmware version.

  SAMI checks the compatibility and automatically excludes any firewall model not compatible with the chosen firmware from the upgrade task, while notifying you of this exception.

• After initiating the upgrades to periodically check and monitor the status of each task, you can enter, show upgrade progress.

  SAMI displays the firmware upgrade schedule with a commit ID for tracking.

  SAMI provides real-time updates, showing the status of upgrades: scheduled, in progress, complete, or failed.

• In case of any failed tasks, you can troubleshoot and retry the upgrade.

  SAMI displays troubleshooting tips and the option to retry the upgrade.