Resources

The SonicWall SMA appliance manages a wide variety of corporate resources in three main categories:

• Web resources—Applications or services that run over the HTTP or HTTPS protocol such as Microsoft Outlook Web Access.
• Client/server resources—Enterprise applications that run over TCP/IP, such as Citrix, and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephony applications.
• File shares—Network servers or computers containing shared folders and files.

When specifying a resource type, keep the intended audience in mind. For example, you can give business partners narrow access to a Web application by defining a URL as a resource (and even alias the host name for an extra measure of security).

To give remote employees broader access, you could define the network segment in which the Web application is located as a domain, IP range, or subnet resource. Employees would then have access to all of the Web resources in that domain.