SMA 100 10.2.1 Release Notes

Version 10.2.1

June 2021

Compatibility and Installation Notes

  • Most popular browsers are supported, but Google Chrome is preferred for the real-time graphics display on the Dashboard.
  • A account is required.
  • 10.2.1 is compatible with ().

    provides a cloud dashboard that displays the overall status of all the registered appliances. The dashboard has sliders to choose the Time Period, Count of Alerts, Threats, WAF Threats, Authentications, VPN Accesses, Bookmark Access, Active devices and Users on a Map, and Threats categories.

    Use your credentials to log into at https://cloud.sonicwall.com.

    Click the tile to view the Dashboard, complete registration, and enable cloud management.

10.2.1 is supported on the following appliances:

  • 200/400
  • 210/410
  • 500v for ESXi

    • Supported for deployment on VMware ESXi 6.0 and higher
  • 500v for HyperV

    • Supported for deployment on Hyper-V server version 2016 and 2019
  • 500v for AWS
  • 500v for Azure
  • 500v for KVM

What's New

These features are introduced in 10.2.1:

  • System Report

    You are now able to generate functionality reports on System Information, System Status, Threats, Active Users, and Activities using all supported basic and advanced combinations. Reports can be scheduled on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis.

  • HTML5 SSH Key File Authentication Support

    User names and passwords were previously the only authentication methods supported by HTML SSH. More and more SSH servers are now being used as key file authentication sites, especially within the cloud environment. has added support for that Key File authentication method.

    • HTML5 SSH bookmarks support identity file authentication
    • HTML5 SSH features can save the identity file and user information in a browser's local storage
    • HTML5 SSH features can use the saved information to log in to an SSH server automatically
  • Migration Tool

    The ability to migrate configurations across platforms has been developed allowing you to keep your key network configuration by mapping the source device interfaces to the destination device interfaces. This new tool disables the device/network-related features such as High Availability, and converts only the device-related feature configurations, such as Policies and so on. For any configuration migration scenarios, review the SMA100: Configuration Migration Tool Knowledge base article or reach out to Support for assistance.

  • 500v on KVM

    500v for KVM allows you to run an 500v appliance in a KVM environment while supporting most of the features available on physical appliances.

  • Allowed Host Option in the Content Security Policy Header

    You can add an Allowed Host option in the Content Security Policy Header that supports third-party resources. You must access your appliance's internal settings to input the third-party URLs in the Content Security Policy Settings.

  • DUO Security Authentication Support for NetExtender and Mobile Connect Clients

    supports DUO Security Authentication during user login. DUO Security Authentication login is supported for different clients such as web browsers and Mobile Connect clients in both Contemporary and Classic Modes.

  • Secure Hosts for Secure Network Detection

    When Secure Network Detection is enabled, using a new Secure Hosts setting, can check whether or not an SSL certificate is trusted, thereby allowing you to add secure hosts for "always on" VPN connections. If a secure network is not detected, the client will connect to the VPN.

  • iPerf Integration

    iPerf can be integrated into and used to measure and tune network performance. It produces standardized performance measurements on any network and can function as both client and server. It can also create data streams that measure the throughput between the end client machine and the appliance in one or both directions as a backend resource host. iPerf output includes time-stamped reports of the amount of data transferred and the throughput measured.

You can learn more about these new features in the New Features section of the 10.2 Administration Guide.

Resolved Issues

This section provides a list of resolved issues in this release.

Issue ID Issue Description

SMA-2587

All logs are deleted on appliance reboot.
SMA-2581 Migration tool should be validated with a message from lower to higher models.

SMA-2566

The appliance is consuming licenses in particular cases.
SMA-2561 Settings imported from an SRA 4600 do not allow login to .
SMA-2539 The AlwaysOnVPN feature does not activate as expected for specific domains.
SMA-2393 Daily log emails are not being sent as expected.
SMA-2317 The System > Settings page needed for upgrades is blank and not functioning as expected.
SMA-2268 An End Point Control (EPC) inspection returned invalid equipment IDs including incorrect serial numbers.
SMA-1847 SecureDNS causes Secure Network Detection (SND) to fail.
SMA-1392 DUO authentication with NetExtender on Linux client does not function as expected.
SMA-1187 The "Allow password changes" feature is not functioning as expected.

Known Issues

This section provides a list of known issues in this release.

Issue ID Issue Description
SMA-2720 In the new user interface, switching between authentication methods such as the SMS OTP (one time password) option and Use Mobile App or Use Email. Switching back to the SMS OTP option always triggers OTP.
SMA-2563 Folder download does not function correctly when file names in the folder include non-ASCII characters.
SMA-2496 Login uniqueness with 'Confirm logout of existing session' does not function as expected.
SMA-1962 Unable to open Excel or Word files using SharePoint.

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