Access Points and Switches Management Administration Guide

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Switches

You can use Access Points and Switches Management to manage features of connected SonicWall Switches.

If the switch is managed by SonicWall's Access Points and Switches Management in Unified Management, there will be a warning displayed indicating that there are local changes detected on the switch standalone. Making any changes to the Switch from Access Points and Switches Management will override the local changes.

It is recommended not to make any configuration changes directly on the switch as making local changes can cause conflicts with Access Points and Switches Management in Unified Management leading to inconsistencies in the configuration and display.

If your Switch was newly registered in MySonicWall, then it will appear as unmanaged in the Access Points and Switches Management inventory. When you hover over such unmanaged devices a tool tip message "This device needs to be assigned to a Zone to start management from WNM" will be displayed.

For an unmanaged Switch there will be an option to assign the a Zone in the Location/Zone column and when you click on the assign zone icon the assign Switch to a zone pop up will be displayed. Select a zone and click OK to assign a Zone.

These Switch management features are supported by Access Points and Switches Management in this release:

  • Dashboard
  • Network IPv4 Network
  • System Information
  • User Management
  • ARP Global
  • ARP Table
  • Authentication
  • Firmware Images - Upgrade
  • DHCP Snooping - settings
  • DHCP Relay
  • Port Settings - QoS
  • Port Settings - POE
  • Port Settings - Security - 802.1x
  • Port Settings - ACL Binding (IPv4)
  • Port Settings - Advanced
  • STP - Settings - Bridge Priority
  • LBD - Global
  • Link Aggregation
  • Jumbo Frames
  • MAC Address Table - Static MAC address
  • MAC Address Table - Dynamic MAC address
  • LLDP - Global Settings
  • IGMP Snooping
  • Multicast Filtering
  • QoS
  • Port Statistics
  • Static Routes (IPv4)
  • 802.1x
  • DoS
  • ACL Management
  • 802.1Q
  • Voice VLAN
  • Log

For the Switch to be managed by Access Points and Switches Management, the switch firmware must be version 1.0.0.3-12s or higher. It is highly recommended to upgrade the Switch firmware to version 1.1 once it is being managed by Access Points and Switches Management.

The toolbar above the table has the below options

Icon Definition
Click this icon to Filter the devices.
Click this icon to Search for devices.
Click this icon to Add devices to a zone.
Click this icon to Upgrade the selected devices.
Click this icon to Edit the selected device.
Click this icon to Export data into an Excel or PDF file.
Click this icon to Refresh or reload the page.
Click this icon to select the required columns. This helps you to view or hide the selected columns.

To manage a Switch

  1. Navigate to Network > Devices.
  2. Click Switches.

  3. Select the switch you want to manage and hover over the far right section of the row to access the various options.

You can also hover the mouse to the right hand side of the switches, and perform the following functions:

  • Click to view more information about that switch.

  • Click to configure the switch

  • Click to view the diagnostics. For more information, refer to Diagnostics.

  • Click to check the logs.

  • Click to refresh the page.

  • Click to upload TSR.

  • Click to download TSR.

  • Click to reboot.

  • Click to upgrade.

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