SSL VPN > Server Settings

The SSL VPN > Server Settings page configures details of the SonicWALL security appliance’s behavior as an SSL VPN server.

You configure the Virtual Office portal through settings as follows:

SSL VPN Status on Zones

This section displays the SSL VPN Access status on each zone:

To enable or disable SSL VPN access, click the zone name.

SSL VPN Server Settings

The following settings configure the SSL VPN server:

SSL VPN Port - Enter the SSL VPN port number in the field. The default is 4433.
Certificate Selection – From this drop-down menu, select the certificate to use to authenticate SSL VPN users. The default method is Use Selfsigned Certificate.
NOTE: To manage certificates, go to the Network > Certificates page.
User Domain – Enter the user’s domain, which must match the domain field in the NetExtender client. The default is LocalDomain.
Enable Web Management over SSL VPN – To enable web management over SSL VPN, select Enabled from this drop-down menu. The default is Disabled.
Enable SSH Management over SSL VPN – To enable SSH management over SSL VPN, select Enabled from this drop-down menu. The default is Disabled.
Inactivity Timeout (minutes) – Enter the number of minutes of inactivity before logging out the user. The default is 10 minutes.
OTP Sending State Check Retry Times (sec) – Enter the number seconds for OTP sending state check retries. The default is 10 seconds.

RADIUS User Settings

This section is available only when either RADIUS or LDAP is configured to authenticate SSL VPN users.

Use RADIUS in – Select this checkbox to have RADIUS use MSCHAP (or MSCHAPv2) mode. Enabling MSCHAP-mode RADIUS will allow users to change expired passwords at login time. Choose between these two modes:

If this option is set when is selected as the authentication method of log in on the Users > Settings page, but LDAP is not configured in a way that allows password updates, then password updates for SSL VPN users are performed using MSCHAP-mode RADIUS after using LDAP to authenticate the user.

SSL VPN Client Download URL

This section allows you to download client SSL VPN files to your HTTP server.

Click here to download the SSL VPN zip file which includes all SSL VPN client files – To download from the appliance, click the Click here link to display an Opening application.zip dialog:

Open and unzip the file, and then put the folder on your HTTP server.

Use customer’s HTTP server as downloading URL: (http://) – Select this checkbox to enter your SSL VPN client download URL in the supplied field.

For NetExtender and WXAC downloads to be successful when this option is enabled, you must configure the following directories on the Local HTTP server:

\\wwwroot\applications\netextender\windows\7.0.197\NXSetupU.exe

\\wwwroot\applications\wxaclient\100\wxac_install_files