Adding Dell SonicWALL Appliances to GMS

The GMS can communicate with SonicWALL appliances through VPN tunnels, SSL, or directly over VPN tunnels that already exist between the SonicWALL appliances and the GMS gateway. SonicWALL GMS should connect to the Aventail SRA appliance on the LAN port of the Aventail appliance. When SonicWALL GMS is deployed outside of the Aventail LAN subnet, management traffic must be routed from GMS to a gateway that allows access into the LAN network, and from there be routed to the Aventail LAN port.

NOTE: A SonicWALL appliance might already be registered to a different MySonicWALL account, in this case the “Register to MySonicWALL.com” task cannot be executed, and will remain in the scheduled tasks queue. To take full advantage of GMS managed appliances, it is important that either the managed appliance is not registered when it is added into GMS, or it is registered to the same MySonicWALL.com account as the GMS system that is managing the appliance. Active/Active clusters of SonicWALL appliances can be added to the GMS simply by adding the Master cluster node. Each individual cluster node sends syslogs directly to the Master cluster node’s serial number, the GMS ends up aggregating the reports.

The following sections describe two methods for adding SonicWALL appliances to GMS:

•	Adding SonicWALL Appliances Manually

•	Importing SonicWALL Appliances

•	Modifying SonicWALL Appliance Management Options