SonicWall Unified Management Administration Guide

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SonicWall Unified Management Tour

The SonicWall Unified Management is a unified platform for managing all your SonicWall products and services with a single-pane-of-glass experience. The following table provides the information about SonicWall Unified Management navigation.

Left-Navigation Menu

The left-navigation menu is divided into multiple parts.

  • Product offering and administrative settings
  • Cross-launch of the registered products
  • SonicWall AI for Monitoring & Insight (SAMI)

The top part of the left-navigation menu shows all SonicWall product offerings and administrative management options.

  • Click or hover over the product in the left navigation menu to see the capabilities available under each product category.
  • Products with sub-menu can be viewed by hovering over the product.

The Product is unavailable for selection if you do not have an active registered product. You can register a product from the Inventory > All Products / Monthly Subscription. For more information, refer to Inventory.

The middle part of the left-navigation menu shows the SonicWall products available to the respective management console. Currently, Unified Management supports management functionality for the below listed SonicWall products:

Management Console Availability For more information, refer to:
Firewalls (Network Security Manager) Network Security Manager Guides and SonicOS Guides
Capture Client Capture Client Guides
Access Points & Switches Secure Wireless Guides and Switch Guides
Cloud Secure Edge Cloud Secure Edge Guides

The bottom part of the left-navigation menu shows the SonicWall AI for Monitoring & Insight (SAMI) to provide assistance with registered products and configurations. For more information, refer to SAMI Feature Guide.

Scope Selector

The Scope Selector is available only on the Dashboard and Inventory pages.

The Scope Selector shows the hierarchy of your organization in terms of the MSPs managed by you (in case you are a Master MSP) and the Tenants under each individual MSP. The main purpose of the Scope Selector is to control the data populated on the Dashboard and Inventory page. The Inventory page shows the available features for the selected scope only.

Dashboard

The Dashboard is the default page of the Unified Management when you log in.

The Dashboard summarizes all your registered products and alerts associated with the products according to the Scope Selector.

From the Dashboard, you can:

  • Create a new Tenant
  • Manage alerts
  • Navigate to Alert List view from the product tiles to view product-specific alerts generated.

If you do not have a registered product, you have can learn more about the product offerings and activate a trial. For more information, refer to Dashboard.

Map View

By the default, the Dashboard page shows the alerts in the Map View, but you can switch between Map View and List View.

On the Map View, the dot signifies tenants based on their marker locations and color of the dot signifies the highest priority of alert generated on the products under those Tenants.

Applying the combination of filter attributes can narrow down the results for a specific requirement. You can save these combinations of attributes to apply filters for future use. For more information, refer to Viewing and Managing Alerts.

List View

The List View gives the complete list of product-wise alerts with separate tabs.

Applying the combination of filter attributes can narrow down the results for a specific requirement. You can save these combinations of attributes to apply filters for future use. For more information, refer to Viewing and Managing Alerts. You can also export the alerts into CSV format.

Feedback The Feedback icon helps to provide the feedback about the Unified Management from the main page. You can find the Feedback icon in the top right corner of the Unified Management.
Notification Center

The Notification Center icon gives a quick overview of the alerts and notifications available for your products. You can find the Notification Center icon in the top right corner of the Unified Management.
Support The Support icon on the Unified Management main page navigates to Admin Settings | Support & Resources > Customer Support Case page. You can submit service requests and manage the requests. For more information, refer to .
Help The Help navigates to the Unified Management documents available on Technical Documentation portal.
My Account

The My Account is available at the top right corner of the Unified Management. You can customize your organizational and personal account settings here.

Only the Super Admin can change the Organizational Settings. For more information, refer to Account Settings.