System > Status Overview

The System > Status page provides the administrator with current system status for the SRA appliance, including information and links to help manage the SRA appliance and Dell SonicWALL Security Services licenses. This section provides information about the page display and instructions to perform the configuration tasks on the System > Status page.

Figure 11. System > Status Page

Overviews of each area of the System > Status page are provided in the following sections:

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System Messages

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System Information

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Latest Alerts

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Licenses & Registration

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Network Interfaces

System Messages

The System Messages section displays text about recent events and important system messages, such as system setting changes. For example, if you do not set an outbound SMTP server, you will see the message, “Log messages and one-time passwords cannot be sent because you have not specified an outbound SMTP server address.”

System Information

The System Information section displays details about your specific SRA appliance. The following information is displayed in this section:

Table 19. System Information
Field	Description
Model	The type of SRA appliance.
Serial Number	The serial number or the MAC address of the SRA appliance.
Authentication Code	The alphanumeric code used to authenticate the SRA appliance on the registration database at <https://www.mysonicwall.com>.
Firmware Version	The firmware version loaded on the SRA appliance.
ROM Version	Indicates the ROM version. The ROM code controls low-level functionality of the appliance.
CPU (Utilization)	The type of the SRA appliance processor and the average CPU usage over the last 5 minutes.
Total Memory	The amount of RAM and Flash memory on the appliance.
System Time	The current date and time.
Up Time	The number of days, hours, minutes, and seconds, that the SRA appliance has been active since its most recent restart.
Active Users	The number of users who are currently logged into the management interface of the SRA appliance.

Latest Alerts

The Latest Alerts section displays text about recent invasive events, irregular system behavior, or errors. Latest Alerts includes information about the date and time of the event, the host of the user that generated the event and a brief description of the event.

Any messages relating to system events or errors are displayed in this section. Clicking the arrow button located in upper right corner of this section displays the Log > Log View page.

Fields in the Latest Alerts section are:

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Date/Time - The date and time when the message was generated.

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User - The name of the user that generated the message.

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Message - A message describing the error.

Licenses & Registration

The Licenses & Registration section indicates the user license allowance and registration status of your SRA appliance. The status of your Analyzer, ViewPoint, Secure Virtual Assist, Spike License, and Web Application Firewall licenses are also displayed here.

To register your appliance on MySonicWALL and manually enter the registration code in the available field at the bottom of this section, see Registering Your SRA Appliance from System Status .

To register your appliance on MySonicWALL from the System > Licenses page and allow the appliance to automatically synchronize registration and license status with the Dell SonicWALL server, see Registering the SRA Appliance from System > Licenses .

Network Interfaces

The Network Interfaces section provides the administrator with a list of SRA appliance interfaces by name. For each interface, the Network Interfaces tab provides the IP address that has been configured and the current link status.

For information about configuration tasks related to the Network Interfaces section, refer to Configuring Network Interfaces .