Determining the Universal Dashboard Geographical Map Location

An administrator now has multiple ways to determine the location of an object in the geographic map. The following list is numbered chronologically show to location-configuration precedence order:

1

The public WAN IP of the network address object is used to determine the location of the object in the geographic map. This excludes all objects with private addresses, for example, 10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12 and 192.168.0.0/16 networks. A mapping service is used to map the WAN IP to longitude and latitude, which is then translated into a location in the Geographic View.

2

When a unit is added into SonicWALL GMS, the administrator can specify the location of the unit, either explicitly in a standard address format, or interactively through a map to determine the longitude and latitude of the unit’s position. Information provided using this approach overrides the information retrieved using WAN IP as described in step 1.

3	In the Geographic View, the administrator can drag a unit and position it anywhere in the map. This updates the location information (longitude and latitude) of the network address object and overrides information in step 1 and step 2.

4

For network address objects whose location is unknown (either because its IP is not known or the IP is in the private IP space, or the administrator has not provided longitude and latitude information), these will be displayed in a special “unknown” area of the geographic map—from where these can be dragged and placed anywhere in the map

5	The SonicWALL GMS Servers’ public WAN IPs is determined by SonicWALL GMS using Web services, and the IPs are used for initial positioning of the SonicWALL GMS servers.