Centralized Firewall Management Administration Guide

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Table of Contents

Management Status

Firewall Management manages a firewall. When a firewall acquisition is successful, firewall configuration is synchronized with SonicWall Firewall Management, and SonicWall Firewall Management can reach the firewall. For information about performing firewall acquisition, refer to Network Security Manager Getting Started Guide for SaaS.

The Management Status tab is divided into two tabs:

  • MANAGEMENT STATUS
  • SYSTEM DETAILS

The MANAGEMENT STATUS gives information of the status of the device and device-management through SonicWall Firewall Management.

Management Status
TERM DEFINITION
Connectivity Status of connectivity between SonicWall Firewall Management and firewall.
  • Up(green icon)— Firewall Management can reach firewall.
  • Down(red icon)— Firewall Management cannot reach firewall.
Synchronized

Status of synchronization of firewall configuration with Firewall Management.

  • Green icon—Synchronization successful
  • Red icon—Synchronization failed
Status

Status of firewall acquisition by Firewall Management.

  • Green icon—Acquisition successful
  • Red icon—Acquisition failed
  • Yellow icon—Acquisition is in progress
Auto synchronize

Displays the status of auto-syncronisation.

Disabled - The firewall and Firewall Management are not configured to auto-sync any changes done in the Firewall Management or firewall. The user has to manually synchronize when any changes are done on Firewall Management or firewall.

Enabled - The firewall and Firewall Management are configured to automatically synchronize any changes done in the firewall.

Paused - Whenever there is pending changes or pending Commits, auto-sync will be in Paused state. In this scenario, the auto synchronization will go to the pause state. As soon as the pending commits are cleared the Firewall Management will go back to the enabled state automatically.
Last Updated Displays the time when the firewall was last updated.
Zero Touch

Activation status of the zero-touch feature or status of zero-touch connection between firewall and Firewall Management for zero-touch enabled device.

  • A gray icon indicates Zero Touch feature was disabled.

  • A red icon indicates that the Zero Touch connection failed.

  • A yellow icon indicates that the system is waiting for a Zero Touch connection from the firewall.

  • A green icon indicates that the firewall is connected successfully to Firewall Management using zero-touch.

The SYSTEM DETAILS section displays the following details of a system:

System Details
TERM DEFINITION
Model Device model
Serial Number Serial number of the device
Friendly Name Friendly name of the device, if entered when registering the firewall
Group Name Device group, if the device belongs to any group
Tenant The tenant to which the firewall is registered to
Firmware Version

The SonicOS version that runs on the device

Firmware Version is indicated with Critical / High alert if the existing firmware version is out of date or it has any vulnerabilities.
Last Modified By User that modified device configuration the last time