SonicWALL ViewPoint is a Web-based graphical reporting tool that provides unprecedented
security awareness and control over your network environment through detailed and comprehensive reports of your security and network activities. ViewPoint’s broad reporting capabilities allow administrators to easily monitor network access and Internet usage, enhance security, assess risks, understand more about employee Internet use and productivity, and anticipate future bandwidth needs.
ViewPoint creates dynamic, real-time and historical network summaries, providing a flexible,
comprehensive view of network events and activities. Reports are based on syslog data streams received from each SonicWALL appliance through LAN, Wireless LAN, WAN or VPN connections. With ViewPoint, your organization can generate individual or aggregate reports about virtually any aspect of appliance activity, including individual user or group usage patterns, evens on specific appliances or groups of appliances, types and times of attacks, resource consumption and constraints, and more.
For more information on SonicWALL ViewPoint, go to
http://www.sonicwall.com
.
For complete SonicWALL ViewPoint documentation, go to the SonicWALL documentation Web
site at http://www.sonicwall.com/us/support/3340.html
.
The
Log > ViewPoint
page allows you to activate the ViewPoint license directly from the SonicWALL Management Interface using two methods.
If you received a license activation key, enter the activation key in the Enter upgrade key field,
and click Accept
.
1.
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Click the
Upgrade
link in Click here to Upgrade
on the Log > ViewPoint
page. The mysonicwall.com Login
page is displayed.
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2.
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Enter your mysonicwall.com account username and password in the
User Name
and Password
fields, then click Submit
. The System > Licenses
page is displayed. If your SonicWALL security appliance is already connected to your mysonicwall.com account, the System > Licenses
page appears after you click the SonicWALL Content Filtering
Subscription
link.
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3.
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Click
Activate
or Renew
in the Manage Service
column in the Manage Services Online
table. Type in the Activation Key in the New License Key
field and click Submit
.
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Once you have installed the SonicWALL ViewPoint software, you can point the SonicWALL
security appliance to the server running ViewPoint.
1.
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Check the
Enable ViewPoint Settings
checkbox in the Syslog Servers
section of the Log
> ViewPoint
page.
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2.
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Click the
Add
button. The Add Syslog Server
window is displayed.
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Note
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The
Override Syslog Settings with ViewPoint Settings
control on the Log > Syslog
page is automatically checked when you enable ViewPoint from the Log > ViewPoint
page. The IP address or FQDN you entered in the Add Syslog Server
window is also displayed on the Log > Syslog
page as well as in the Syslog Servers
table on the Log > ViewPoint
page.
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Clicking the Edit icon displays the
Add Syslog Server
window for editing the ViewPoint server information. Clicking the Delete
icon, deletes the ViewPoint syslog server entry.