Licensing Application Control

Application Intelligence and Control has two components:

App Visualization and App Control are licensed together in a bundle with other security services including SonicWALL Gateway Anti-Virus (GAV), Anti-Spyware, and Intrusion Prevention Service (IPS).

NOTE: Upon registration on MySonicWall, or when you load SonicOS 5.9 onto a registered SonicWALL device, supported SonicWALL appliances begin an automatic 30-day trial license for App Visualization and App Control, and application signatures are downloaded to the appliance.

A free 30-day trial is also available for the other security services in the bundle, but it is not automatically enabled as it is for App Visualization and App Control. You can start the additional free trials on the individual Security Services pages in SonicOS, or on MySonicWall.

Once the App Visualization feature is manually enabled on the Log > Flow Reporting page (see below), you can view real-time application traffic on the Dashboard > Real-Time Monitor page and application activity in other Dashboard pages for the identified/classified flows from the SonicWALL application signature database.

To begin using App Control, you must enable it on the Firewall > App Control Advanced page:

To create policies using App Rules (included with the App Control license), select Enable App Rules on the Firewall > App Rules page:

The SonicWALL Licensing server provides the App Visualization and App Control license keys to the SonicWALL device when you begin a 30-day trial (upon registration) or purchase a Security Services license bundle.

Licensing is available on https://www.MySonicWall.com/on the Service Management - Associated Products page under GATEWAY SERVICES.

The Security Services license bundle includes licenses for these subscription services:

Application signature updates and signature updates for other Security Services are periodically downloaded to the SonicWALL appliance as long as these services are licensed.

NOTE: If you disable Visualization in the SonicOS management interface, application signature updates are discontinued until the feature is enabled again.

When High Availability is configured between two SonicWALL appliances, the appliances can share the Security Services license. To use this feature, you must register the SonicWALL appliances on MySonicWall as Associated Products. Both appliances must be the same SonicWALL model.

NOTE: For a High Availability pair, even if you first register your appliances on MySonicWall, you must individually register both the Primary and the Backup appliances from the SonicOS management interface while logged into the individual management IP address of each appliance. This allows the Backup unit to synchronize with the SonicWALL license server and share licenses with the associated Primary appliance. When Internet access is restricted, you can manually apply the shared licenses to both appliances.

NOTE: App Visualization and App Control are not supported on the SonicWALL TZ 200 or 100 series appliances. These features are supported on SonicWALL TZ 210 series appliances, and on SonicWALL NSA appliances except the NSA 2400MX.