Synchronizing Appliances

If a change is made to the SonicWALL appliance through any means other than through GMS, SonicWALL GMS will be notified of the change through the syslog data stream. You can configure an alert through the Granular Event Management framework to send email notification when a local administrator makes changes to a SonicWALL appliance through the local user interface rather than through GMS. After the syslog notification is received, SonicWALL GMS schedules a task to synchronize its database with the local change. After the task successfully executes, the current configuration (prefs) file is read from the SonicWALL appliance and loaded into the database.

Auto-synchronization automatically occurs whenever SonicWALL GMS receives a local change notification status syslog message from a SonicWALL appliance.

You can also force an auto-synchronization at any time for a SonicWALL appliance or a group of SonicWALL appliances.

To do this, complete the following steps:

1	Expand the System tree and click Tools. The Tools page displays.

2	To synchronize the selected SonicWALL appliance(s), click Synchronize Now. SonicWALL GMS schedules a task to synchronize the selected SonicWALL appliances.

NOTE: The auto-synchronization feature can be disabled on the Console/Management Settings screen and by unchecking Enable Auto Synchronization.