Configuring Modem Settings

Select SonicWALL appliances are equipped to use analog modem, and/or wireless WAN (WWAN) devices for alternative or primary Internet connectivity.

NOTE: For information on configuring WWAN settings, see Configuring Advanced Settings, page 306.

To configure the modem settings for one or more SonicWALL SP or SonicWALL SPi appliances, complete the following steps:

1	In the left pane, select the SonicWALL appliance to manage.

2	Click the Policies tab.

3	In the center pane, navigate to Modem > Settings.

 

4	For SP appliances, select the Speaker volume pull-down box to configure the speaker volume On or Off.

5	For SP appliances, modem initialization has two options:

•	To initialize the modem for use in a specific country, select the radio button next to Initialize Modem for use in and select the country in the pull-down menu.

•	To initialize the modem using AT commands, select the radio button next to Initialize Modem using AT Command and enter the AT command(s) the modem needs to establish a connection in the text box.

6	For SPi appliances, you can specify the ISDN protocol by selecting the protocol from the ISDN Protocol pull-down menu. To connect immediately, click Connect/Disconnect and schedule the connection.

7	For appliances running SonicOS Enhanced, select the check boxes for any combination of the following dial on data categories:

•	NTP packets

•	GMS Heartbeats

•	System log emails

•	AV Profile Updates

•	SNMP Traps

•	Licensed Updates

•	Firmware Update requests

•	Syslog traffic

8	For appliances running SonicOS Enhanced, select the check boxes for any combination of the following Management methods:

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HTTP

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HTTPS

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Ping

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SNMP

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SSH

9	For appliances running SonicOS Enhanced, select the check boxes for any combination of the following User Login methods:

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HTTP

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HTTPS

•	For HTTPS, check the box next to Add rule to enable redirect from HTTP to HTTPs to redirect an HTTP address to HTTPS.

10	Select a primary profile from the Primary Profile pull-down menu. Optionally, select alternate profiles from Alternate Profile 1 and, for SP appliances, Alternate Profile 2.

NOTE: To configure modem profiles, navigate to Modem > Dialup Profiles.

11	For non-SonicOS Enhanced appliances, you can configure the following modem failover settings:

•	To enable dialup WAN failover, check Enable Dialup WAN Failover.

•	To enable preempt mode, check Enable Preempt Mode.

•	To enable probing, check Enable Probing.

•	Select a method for probing using the Probe through pull-down menu.

•	Enter the IP address that the SonicWALL appliance uses to test Internet connectivity in the Probe Target (IP Address) field. We recommend using the IP address of the WAN Gateway.

•	Select the Probe Type, either ICMP Probing or TCP Probing.

•	Enter the TCP port for probing in the TCP Port for Probing field.

•	Specify how often the IP address is tested (in seconds) in the Probe Interval field.

•	Specify how many times the probe target must be unavailable before the SonicWALL appliance fails over to the modem in the Failover Trigger Level field.

•	Specify how many times the SonicWALL appliance must successfully reach the probe target to reactivate the broadband connection in the Successful probes to reactivate Primary field.

12	When you are finished, click Update.