VPN Management

Managing A Secure Distributed VPN

The Global Management System (GMS) is a scalable browser-based client/server application that can configure and manage any where from a few to thousands of SonicWALL VPN appliances from a central location. This dramatically lowers the cost of managing a secure distributed network. SonicWALL GMS does this by enabling administrators to monitor the status of and apply configurations to all managed VPN appliances, groups of appliances, or individual VPN appliances.

You can also configure multiple site VPNs for SonicWALL appliances. From the SonicWALL GMS user interface (UI), you can add VPN licenses to SonicWALL appliances, configure VPN settings, and enable or disable remote client access for each network. SonicWALL GMS provides monitoring features that enable you to view the current status of SonicWALL appliances, pending tasks, and log messages. It also provides graphical reporting of firewall and network activities for the SonicWALL appliances. Working in conjunction with ViewPoint, a wide range of informative real-time and historical reports can be generated to provide insight into usage trends and security events.

Features and Benefits

Comprehensive Security Management. VPN Management provides network administrators with configuration and management tools to globally define, distribute, enforce and deploy the full range of security services and upgrades for thousands of SonicWALL VPN appliances.

Managed VPN Services. VPN Management simplifies the task of globally defining, distributing, enforcing and deploying VPN policies for managed VPN gateways to keep all remote sites in synch with the latest security policies.

Cost Effective. VPN Management delivers a cost-effective global management solution that reduces staffing requirements, speeds up deployment, and lowers the cost of delivering services by centralizing the management security policies.

Streamlined License Management. VPN Management allows central license management of the SonicWALL upgrade and subscription services. It simplifies the task of storing, applying, tracking and updating upgrade and subscription license information for all the managed SonicWALL VPN appliances.

Multi-Tier Policy Hierarchy Architecture. VPN Management allows administrators to easily set up a hierarchy to group SonicWALL VPN appliances with similar security profiles to provide network administrators with the flexibility to manage the security policies on an individual, group and global level.

Distributed Security Management. VPN Management allows administrators to segment and distribute management responsibility among a group of individuals. Responsibilities can be assigned with different privileges for managed SonicWALL VPN appliances.

Customizable Viewing. VPN Management allows the network administrators to visualize the managed SonicWALL VPN appliances at any logical view. A view of a hierarchy of managed SonicWALL VPN appliances can be created using pre-defined or custom attributes.

Database Support. VPN Management supports access to industry-leading back-end databases for highly efficient and reliable data storage and retrieval. It stores its configuration files and data in databases to automatically be backed up and restored.

VPN Management Options

  GMS Standard Edition

SonicWALL Global Management System Standard Edition (SonicWALL GMS) enables distributed enterprises and service providers to manage thousands of SonicWALL VPN appliances from a central location. SonicWALL GMS delivers cost-effective global management solution that reduces staffing requirements, speeds up deployment, and lowers the cost of managing VPN and security services. Extending SonicWALL’s renowned ease-of-use management interface, SonicWALL GMS provides a highly scalable, sophisticated VPN management system for geographically distributed networks. SonicWALL GMS gives administrators the integrated tools to manage all VPN services and security policies throughout a large-scale, multiple policy enterprise or service provider environment.

Viewpoint Reporting System

SonicWALL ViewPoint reporting software provides administrators insight into network security status and develops easy-to-understand reports on a comprehensive set of monitored functions. ViewPoint reporting software’s Web-based interface maximizes productivity by turning any SonicWALL VPN appliance into a network security monitoring and reporting console.