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Preparing SRA Appliances for GMS Management

This section describes the local configuration steps required on the individual appliance before adding it to SonicWALL GMS management. See the following subsections:

Preparing Dell SonicWALL SRA Appliances

To prepare a SonicWALL SRA appliance (non-Aventail) for GMS management:

  1. Log in to your SonicWALL SRA. Navigate to System > Administration.
  2. In GMS settings, select the Enable GMS Management check box.
  3. Type the GMS host name or IP address of the GMS server in the GMS Host Name or IP Address field.
  4. Type the GMS syslog server port in the Syslog Server Port field. The default port is 514.
  5. Enter the heartbeat interval, in seconds, in the Heartbeat Interval (seconds) field. The maximum heartbeat interval is 86400 (24 hours).
  6. Click Apply.

Preparing SonicWALL Aventail EX-Series SRA Appliances

There are specific requirements for preparing the SonicWALL Aventail EX-Series SRA appliance for GMS management:

To prepare a SonicWALL Aventail EX-Series SRA appliance for GMS management:

  1. Log in to your SonicWALL Aventail EX-Series SRA.
  2. Click General Settings in the main Aventail Management Console (AMC) navigation menu.
  3. Click Edit in the Centralized management area.
  4. Select the Enable GMS management check box, and then enter the host name or IP address of the GMS console, and its port number.
  5. In the Heartbeat interval text box, set the interval (in seconds) at which the appliance indicates its readiness to send a report on authentication-related events, in addition to status information. An interval of 60 seconds is typical.
  6. Select Enable single sign-on for AMC configuration if you want to be able to open the Aventail Management Console and make changes to its configuration from within GMS. If this setting is cleared, you can still open AMC, but you must first enter your AMC login credentials; this is less convenient, but more secure.
  7. Select Send only heartbeat status messages if you want to only manage the appliance and not create reports for the appliance.

For more information about preparing SonicWALL Aventail appliances for SonicWALL GMS management, see the SonicWALL GMS Aventail EX-Series Appliance Management feature module and the SonicWALL / Aventail EX-Series Installation and Administration Guide on the SonicWALL Support Web site:

http://www.sonicwall.com/us/Support.html

Adding SRA Appliances in SonicWALL GMS

To add your appliance to GMS, perform the following tasks:

  1. Log in to GMS.
  2. Click the SRA tab.
  3. In the left-most pane, right click and select Add Unit. The Add Unit popup displays.




  4. Enter a descriptive name for the SonicWALL appliance in the Unit Name field.
  5. Enter the serial number of the SonicWALL appliance in the Serial Number field. On SonicWALL Aventail appliances, the serial number is found on a sticker on the back of the appliance. Enter it without hyphens into the field.
  6. For the Managed Address, choose weather to Determine automatically, or Specify manually. Most SMB SRA deployments will be able to determine the address automatically.
  7. For Aventail deployments, choose to Specify manually and check the Aventail SRA appliance option.
  8. Enter the administrator login name for the SonicWALL appliance in the Login Name field. For SonicWALL Aventail SRA appliances, the login name is pre-configured as “GMS” and cannot be changed.
  9. Enter the password used to access the SonicWALL appliance in the Password field.
  10. The radio button next to Using SSL is automatically selected for SRA deployments.
  11. For SonicWALL Aventail SRA appliances, enter 8443 in the Management Port field. Other SonicWALL SRA appliances use port 443.
  12. Click OK.. It may take up to a minute for the data to load; a Please Wait pop up displays.

The SonicWALL SRA displays in the left pane of the SonicWALL GMS interface as a yellow icon, which means the unit has not been acquired by SonicWALL GMS. After the appliance has been acquired, the icon will either turn red, indicating that the appliance status is down, or blue, indicating that the appliance status is up. For detailed appliance icon descriptions, refer to the Understanding Dell SonicWALL GMS Icons.

It may take up to five minutes for the SonicWALL GMS to establish an SSL connection and acquire the SonicWALL appliance for management.

Managing SRA Appliance Settings

After a SonicWALL SRA appliance has been added to SonicWALL GMS, it can be modified or deleted. This section contains the following subsections:

Modifying an SRA Appliance

  1. Click the SRA tab.
  2. In the left pane, right click the SRA appliance you want to modify and select one of the options Option Description Rename Unit Allows you to rename the unit. Modify Unit Allows you to change the appliance settings, including the unit display name, and appliance login name and password. Add to Net Monitor Allows you to add the appliance to Net Monitor for real-time monitoring. Import XML Allows you to import XML settings. Login to Unit Allows you to select HTTP or SSL to directly access the appliance. Single sign-on must be enabled for SonicWALL Aventail appliance to allow direct access to the Aventail Manage­ment Console from the SonicWALL GMS right-click menu. Otherwise you will be prompted to enter your Aventail appliance login credentials. Modify Properties Allows you to modify the properties of the appliance, including company, country and department names.

Deleting an SRA Appliance

  1. Click the SRAs tab.
  2. In the left pane, right click the SRA appliance you want to delete and select Delete.
  3. An alert will appear to verify the appliance deletion. Click Yes.




Note: It may take several seconds for the appliance to be deleted.