Vendor information

Global Management System

SonicWALL Global Management System (GMS) provides organizations of any size, distributed enterprises and service providers with a flexible, powerful and intuitive tool to centrally manage and rapidly deploy SonicWALL firewall, anti-spam, backup and recovery, secure remote access solutions and security policy configurations. Flexibly deployed as software, hardware in the form of the Universal Management Appliance (UMA) or a virtual appliance. Organizations can globally manage and collect detailed information from security applications such as gateway anti-virus, anti-spyware, intrusion prevention and content filtering, all from a single console. SonicWALL GMS™ also provides centralized real-time monitoring, and comprehensive policy and compliance reporting. SonicWALL GMS' intuitive Web-based user interface easily allows for complete life cycle control of thousands of SonicWALL firewall, anti-spam, secure remote access, and backup and recovery appliances and services—from initial configuration to complex policy changes and remote updates. For enterprises, GMS simplifies the complexity of network management by offering a single management interface, thereby reducing administration time, complexity and the overall total cost of ownership (TCO). Service providers benefit from its multi-organizational management capabilities where it consolidates, groups and classifies thousands of individual customers' managed appliances and their respective security policies. Through an integrated reporting architecture, administrators can customize and schedule reports individually tailored to meet the needs of managed customers, executives and regulatory compliance audits for corporate departments.

• GMS Software – SonicWALL GMS can be flexibly deployed as a software application on a third party Windows® server, leveraging existing infrastructure.
• Universal Management Appliance – The award-winning UMA, leveraging a hardened high- performance appliance, simplifies and automates multi-level policy management, monitoring and compliance reporting with flexible, powerful and intuitive tools. Multiple UMA devices, when deployed in a cluster, can scale to manage up to thousands of SonicWALL security appliances.
• GMS Virtual Appliance – The SonicWALL GMS Virtual Appliance provides a hardened, performance-optimized virtual appliance agent for the SonicWALL Global Management System. In the past, under the "one server, one application" model, administrators often underutilized hardware resources and spent considerable time on server management. SonicWALL Virtual Appliances significantly improve the efficiency and availability of resources and applications.

SonicWALL ViewPoint

SonicWALL ViewPoint™ is an easy-to-use Web-based reporting tool that fully compliments and extends SonicWALL's security products and services. Using both a customized dashboard and a variety of historical reports, ViewPoint helps organizations of all sizes track network utilization, monitor security activity and view Web usage. Available as software or virtual appliance, SonicWALL ViewPoint can be deployed as a software application on a third party Windows® server or as a SonicWALL GMS Virtual Appliance in a VMware® environment.

MySonicWALL

MySonicWALL delivers a convenient, centralized way to register and manage SonicWALL network security and data protection appliances and associated services. MySonicWALL is an easy-to-use online customer portal that enables organizations to manage their entire SonicWALL relationship in a single location. Busy IT managers can save time by using MySonicWALL to track firmware versions, existing software licenses and security service subscriptions.

• MySonicWALL helps prevent unanticipated service expirations, which can lead to crippling and costly security breaches and business interruptions
• MySonicWALL makes it easy for managers to renew existing security services and to subscribe to additional levels of security and data protection
• MySonicWALL allows customers to manage multiple discrete product installations, including network security appliances, email security appliances and data backup and recovery installations spread across the enterprise.

Application Traffic Analytics Tools

Scrutinizer

SonicWALL® Scrutinizer is a multi-vendor, application traffic analytics visualization and reporting tool to measure and troubleshoot network performance and utilization while increasing productivity for enterprises and service providers. Scrutinizer supports a wide range of routers, switches, firewalls, and data-flow reporting protocols, providing unparalleled insight into application traffic analysis from IPFIX/NetFlow data exported by SonicWALL firewalls. Scrutinizer easily identifies top applications, conversations, flows, protocols, domains, countries, and subnets, and alerts on suspicious behavior. Scrutinizer also provides historical and advanced reporting, role-based administration, advanced analysis, and threshold-based alerts, in addition to numerous special features for MSPs and ISPs.

Analyzer

SonicWALL® Analyzer is an easy to use web-based traffic analytics and reporting tool that provides real-time and historical insight into the health, performance and security of the network. Analyzer supports SonicWALL firewalls, backup and recovery (Continuous Data Protection) appliances, and secure remote access devices while leveraging application traffic analytics for security event reports. SonicWALL is the only firewall vendor that provides a complete solution that combines off-box application traffic analytics with granular statistical data generated by SonicWALL firewalls.