Importing SonicWALL Appliances

To reduce the amount of information that you have to manually enter when adding SonicWALL appliances, GMS enables you to import the saved prefs file of a SonicWALL appliance. To add a SonicWALL appliance to the GMS management interface using the import option, follow these steps:

1	Right-click in the left pane of the GMS interface and select Add Unit from the pop-up menu. The Add Unit dialog box appears.

2	Enter a descriptive name for the SonicWALL appliance in the Unit Name field. Do not enter the single quote character (') in the SonicWALL Name field.

3	Enter the password to access the SonicWALL appliance in the Password field.

4	Click Import. The Import dialog box appears.

5	Find and select the saved prefs file of the SonicWALL appliance. Click Import. You are returned to the Add Unit dialog box.

6	Click Properties. The Unit Properties dialog box appears.

7	This dialog box displays fields to which the SonicWALL appliance belongs. To change any of the values, enter a new value. When you are finished, click OK.

8	After you are returned to the Add Unit dialog box, click OK again.

9	Select the user group or individual users to which read-write privileges should be assigned. Keep in mind that admins always maintain read-write privileges, regardless of your selection here.

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The new SonicWALL appliance populates in the left pane. It will have a yellow icon that indicates it has not yet been successfully acquired. The GMS then attempts to establish a management VPN tunnel to the appliance, read its configuration, and acquire it for management. This takes a few minutes. After the SonicWALL appliance is successfully acquired, its icon turns blue, its configuration settings are displayed at the unit level, and its settings are saved to the database. A text version of this configuration file is also saved in: <gms_directory>/etc/Prefs.