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Log > ViewPoint

SonicWALL ViewPoint is a Web-based graphical reporting tool that provides unprecedented security awareness and control over your network environment through detailed and comprehensive reports of your security and network activities. ViewPoint’s broad reporting capabilities allow administrators to easily monitor network access and Internet usage, enhance security, assess risks, understand more about employee Internet use and productivity, and anticipate future bandwidth needs.

ViewPoint creates dynamic, real-time and historical network summaries, providing a flexible, comprehensive view of network events and activities. Reports are based on syslog data streams received from each SonicWALL appliance through LAN, Wireless LAN, WAN or VPN connections. With ViewPoint, your organization can generate individual or aggregate reports about virtually any aspect of appliance activity, including individual user or group usage patterns, evens on specific appliances or groups of appliances, types and times of attacks, resource consumption and constraints, and more.

For more information on SonicWALL ViewPoint, go to http://www.sonicwall.com .

For complete SonicWALL ViewPoint documentation, go to the SonicWALL documentation Web site at http://www.sonicwall.com/us/support/3340.html .

Activating ViewPoint

The Log > ViewPoint page allows you to activate the ViewPoint license directly from the SonicWALL Management Interface using two methods.

If you received a license activation key, enter the activation key in the Enter upgrade key field, and click Accept .

Warning
You must have a mysonicwall.com account and your SonicWALL security appliance must be registered to activate SonicWALL ViewPoint for your SonicWALl security appliance.
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Click the Upgrade link in Click here to Upgrade on the Log > ViewPoint page. The mysonicwall.com Login page is displayed.
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Enter your mysonicwall.com account username and password in the User Name and Password fields, then click Submit . The System > Licenses page is displayed. If your SonicWALL security appliance is already connected to your mysonicwall.com account, the System > Licenses page appears after you click the SonicWALL Content Filtering Subscription link.
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Click Activate or Renew in the Manage Service column in the Manage Services Online table. Type in the Activation Key in the New License Key field and click Submit .
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If you activated SonicWALL ViewPoint at mysonicwall.com, the SonicWALL ViewPoint activation is automatically enabled on your SonicWALL within 24-hours or you can click the Synchronize button on the Security Services > Summary page to update your SonicWALL.

Enabling ViewPoint Settings

Once you have installed the SonicWALL ViewPoint software, you can point the SonicWALL security appliance to the server running ViewPoint.

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Check the Enable ViewPoint Settings checkbox in the Syslog Servers section of the Log > ViewPoint page.
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Click the Add button. The Add Syslog Server window is displayed.
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Enter the IP address or FQDN of the SonicWALL ViewPoint server in the Name or IP Address field.
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Enter the port number for the SonicWALL ViewPoint server traffic in the Port field or use the default port number.
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Click Accept .
Note
The Override Syslog Settings with ViewPoint Settings control on the Log > Syslog page is automatically checked when you enable ViewPoint from the Log > ViewPoint page. The IP address or FQDN you entered in the Add Syslog Server window is also displayed on the Log > Syslog page as well as in the Syslog Servers table on the Log > ViewPoint page.

Clicking the Edit icon displays the Add Syslog Server window for editing the ViewPoint server information. Clicking the Delete icon, deletes the ViewPoint syslog server entry.