Creating Custom Fields

When first configuring Dell SonicWALL GMS, you must create custom fields that are entered for each SonicWALL appliance. Dell SonicWALL GMS supports up to ten custom fields.

NOTE: Although Dell SonicWALL GMS supports up to ten custom fields, only seven fields can be used to sort SonicWALL appliances in any view.

The following are examples of custom fields that you can use:

•	Geographic—useful for organizing SonicWALL appliances geographically. Especially useful when used in combination with other grouping methods. Geographic fields might include:

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Country

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Time Zone

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Region

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State

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City

•	Customer-based—Useful for organizations that are providing managed security services for multiple customers. Customer-based fields might include:

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Company

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Division

•	Department

•	Configuration-based—Useful when SonicWALL appliances will have very different configurations. (for example, Filtering, No Filtering, Pornography Filtering, Violence Filtering, or VPN).

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User-type—Different service offerings can be made available to different user types. For example, engineering, sales, and customer service users can have very different configuration requirements. Or, if offered as a service to end users, you can allow or disallow network address translation (NAT) depending on the number of IP addresses that you want to make available.

Dell SonicWALL GMS is pre-configured with four custom fields: Country, Company, Department, and State. These fields can be modified or deleted.

To add fields, complete the following steps:

1	Click the Console tab, expand the Management tree and click Custom Groups.

 

2	Right-click Custom Groupings in the right pane.

3	Select Add Group from the pop-up menu.

4	Enter the name of the first field.

5	Select the newly created field and select Add Group from the pop-up menu.

6	Enter the name of the new field.

7	Repeat Steps 6 through 8 for each field that you want to create. You can create up to ten fields.

NOTE: Although the fields appear to be in a hierarchical form, this has no effect on how the fields will appear within a view. To define views, see Configuring Action Permissions .

To modify or delete fields, right-click any of the existing fields and select Modify or Delete from the pop-up menu.