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Overview
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Today, enterprises and service providers face increasing security challenges in their distributed networks, from security and virus attacks to enforcing security policies. As a distributed network grows and branches into multiple subnetworks linked by the Internet, so does the complexity of managing security appliances, security policies, and updates. A single flaw in security implementation at any point in the network can expose the entire infrastructure, allowing malicious access to important data and files with severe consequences. Managing security for distributed networks on a site-by-site basis is time consuming, expensive, and unreliable, putting a big strain on already limited resources.
SonicWALL Global Management System (SonicWALL GMS) enables distributed enterprises and service providers to manage and monitor thousands of SonicWALL Internet security appliances from a central location with a powerful, flexible, and intuitive application. SonicWALL GMS delivers a cost-effective global security management solution that reduces staffing requirements, speeds up deployment, and lowers the cost of managing security services.
SonicWALL GMS gives administrators the integrated tools to manage all security policies and services throughout a large-scale, multiple policy enterprise or service provider environment. Administrators can easily configure SonicWALL firewall settings, deploy VPN to any user, and add SonicWALL upgrade and subscription services, such as Gateway Anti-Virus/Intrusion Prevention Service, Complete Anti-virus and Content Filtering Service with the click of a button.
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Features & Benefits
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- Centralised Secure Management. SonicWALL GMS enables network administrators to manage anywhere from a few to thousands of SonicWALL Internet security appliances from a central location, and simplifies the task of globally defining and deploying a full range of specific or group security policies, services and upgrades. In addition to configuring the firewall settings, SonicWALL GMS also allows for deployment and configuration of firewall upgrade and subscription services such as anti-virus and content filtering.
- Managed VPN Services. SonicWALL GMS simplifies the task of globally defining, distributing, enforcing and deploying VPN policies for managed VPN gateways, keeping all remote sites in synch with the latest security policies. This also includes the VPN policies for mobile users who are connecting to a SonicWALL VPN gateway using the SonicWALL Global VPN Client.
- Centralised Reporting. SonicWALL GMS provides graphical reporting of firewall and network activities for the managed SonicWALL Internet security appliances. Network administrators can generate a wide range of informative real- time and historical reports to provide insight into usage trends and security events.
- Active-Network Monitoring. Lowers maintenance costs, reduces network and system downtime and improves customer service by providing real-time active monitoring of both networks and systems. Net monitor includes VPN and device up/down status, latency monitoring, application monitoring, VPN monitoring, VPN statistics, uptime calculations, and security events for GMS management activities.
- Scalable Architecture. SonicWALL GMS provides a highly scalable architecture to support a growing network. The distributed architecture features built-in redundancy and load balancing to ensure network security, reliability, and efficient bandwidth distribution.
- Ease of Deployment and Management. SonicWALL GMS easily provisions Internet security appliances for management. The Command Line Interface allows the appliances to populate the management database without manual entry. With SonicWALL GMS, the network administrators can segment and distribute management responsibility among a group of individuals. Responsibilities can be assigned with specific multi-level access rights and privileges to the appliances. SonicWALL GMS also allows the network administrators to have multiple views of the appliances to simplify their management functions.
- Cost Effective. SonicWALL GMS delivers a cost-effective global management solution that reduces staffing requirements, speeds up deployment, and lowers the cost of delivering services by centralising the management security policies.
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Specifications
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| | Minimum Deployment Requirements
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| 1GB RAM, 300MB disk space, 1.2GHz processor | Windows 2000 Professional
(SP4)
| 1GB RAM, 300MB disk space, 1.2GHz processor | Windows 2000 Server
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| 1GB RAM, 300MB disk space, 1.2GHz processor | Windows XP Professional
(SP1)
| 1GB RAM, 300MB disk space, 1.2GHz processor | Solaris 8
| 650 MHz UltraSPARC lli processor, 1 GB memory, two 40 GB IDE drives | Database
| Oracle 9.2.0.1 Standard and Enterprise Editions on Windows XP Professional (SP1), Windows 2000 Server (SP4) and Solaris 8; Microsoft SQL Server 2000 on Windows 2003 Server (SP3), 80 GB disk space | Java Database Connectivity
(JDBC) driver
| Type 3 or 4, JDBC 2.0 compliant; a JDBC driver is installed with SonicWALL GMS | SonicWALL Internet
Security Appliances
Under Management
| Minimum firmware version 6.1.2.0, SonicOS Wireless 1.0, SonicOS Standard 2.0 or SonicOS Enhanced 2.0 required | RedCreek Ravlin devices
| Minimum firmware version 3.8.1 required | SonicWALL GMS Gateway | Minimum firmware version 6.1.2.0, SonicOS Standard 2.0 or SonicOS Enhanced 2.0 required and SonicWALL VPN-based appliance | | |
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Associated Products
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Gateway Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware and Intrusion Prevention
SonicWALL Gateway Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware and Intrusion Prevention Service integrates gateway anti-virus, anti-spyware and intrusion prevention to deliver intelligent, real-time network security protection against sophisticated application layer and content-based attacks. Utilizing a configurable, high-performance deep packet inspection architecture, SonicWALL Gateway Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware and Intrusion Prevention Service secures the network from the core to the perimeter against a comprehensive array of dynamic threats including viruses, spyware, worms, Trojans and software vulnerabilities such as buffer overflows, as well as peer-to-peer and instant messenger applications, backdoor exploits, and other malicious code. |
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Complete Anti-Virus
Developed in partnership with McAfee, SonicWALL Complete Anti-Virus combines the enforced desktop protection offered by SonicWALL’s patent-pending Network Anti-Virus with comprehensive server protection offered by the award-winning McAfee NetShield and GroupShield applications for Windows-based File, Print and Exchange servers. |
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Content Filtering Service
SonicWALL Content Filtering Service (CFS) Standard and Premium Editions are the ideal filtering solutions for businesses looking to improve productivity, and schools and libraries seeking to comply with the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA). These scalable, enterprise-class solutions feature a powerful rating and caching architecture that leverages a database of millions of continuously updated Web sites. SonicWALL CFS solutions can be managed through any SonicWALL firewall, eliminating the need for a costly, dedicated filtering server. |
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ViewPoint Reporting
SonicWALL ViewPoint reporting software gives administrators instant insight into network security status through easy-to-understand real-time and historical reports on a comprehensive set of monitored functions. ViewPoint helps organisations recognize suspicious activity and enhance employee productivity by providing summaries of network attacks and reports on user behavior that identify time-wasting and bandwidth-intensive activities. |
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Global VPN Client
With the SonicWALL Global VPN Client, mobile users have a simple, easy-to-use solution for securely accessing the corporate network. The Global VPN Client software provides mobile users with secure, reliable access to corporate resources through broadband, wireless and dial-up connections. Custom-developed by SonicWALL, the Global VPN Client has been specifically engineered to take advantage of the features and benefits of SonicWALL’s third-generation and higher Internet security appliances, adding greater value to SonicWALL’s remote access solutions. |
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Global Security Client
Utilising SonicWALL’s distributed enforcement architecture, the Global Security Client extends gateway enforcement, central management, configuration flexibility and software deployment, to deliver comprehensive desktop security to mobile workers and corporate networks. The Global Security Client addresses the needs of businesses looking to deploy a secure, easy-to-use solution to mobile workers while at the same time delivering a low total cost of ownership (TCO) through automated policy enforcement and software distribution at the gateway. |
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